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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.
5 Grotius and the law of nations In current parlance, the law of nations is synonymous with the term “public international law” or “international law”, which is the
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