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INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW. Answers to your Questions 2. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC). Founded by five Swiss citizens in 1863 (Henry Dunant, Basis for ICRC action Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Gustave Moynier, Louis Appia and Th odore Maunoir), the ICRC is the founding member of the During INTERNATIONAL armed conflicts, the ICRC bases its work on INTERNATIONAL Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I. of 1977 (see Q4). Those treaties lay down the ICRC's right to It is an impartial, neutral and independent HUMANITARIAN institution. carry out certain activities such as bringing relief to wounded, It was born of war over 130 years ago. sick or shipwrecked military personnel, visiting prisoners of war, It is an organization like no other. aiding civilians and, in general terms, ensuring that those Its mandate was handed down by the INTERNATIONAL community. protected by HUMANITARIAN law are treated accordingly.
Fundamental principles of humanitarian law Like Grotius (see p. 5 and Index), jurists and philosophers took an interest in the regulation of conflicts well before the first Geneva Convention of 1864 was adopted and developed. In the …
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