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The Silence of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Léopold Boissier*
Affiliation:
Member of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Extract

No human institution is perfect and the International Committee of the Red Cross is no exception. The criticism most frequently levelled at this venerable body is its silence concerning some of its activities. How can it have a claim to eminence, how can it call powerful governments to account, without seeking the support of men of goodwill through divulgence of full information to the public?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1968

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Footnotes

1

Reproduction of an article by L. Boissier former President of the ICRC, which appeared in the Journal de Genève on January 19, 1968.