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... the Second World War - a chapter in the history of the German Red Cross tracing service 30-06-1999 | ... Monika Ampferl Unknown pages of the history of the Second World War: Soviet prisoners of war in ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: from Solferino to Tsushima This volume covers the history of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement from 1863 to 1912 ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

The carnage of 1914-18 should have made this conflict the last. The public was horrified at ... war 1935-1936 Publications More publications History of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

August 1914: The world has been turned upside down by the insanity of war, ... This small institution would become a truly international ... History of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

But human rights law was still too young and undeveloped to be the subject of analyses, which require a better-established sphere ... In addition to this there was a certain dichotomy between the ICRC ...

• 1998-09-30
• Article
• by: Robert Kolb

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL and other legal regimes
      • IHL and human rights

For many millennia there was no such thing as humanity in land warfare. From the caveman to biblical times, and for centuries thereafter, the winner in battle took from the loser not only his life, ...

• 2000-06-30
• Article
• by: Howard S. Levie

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

Yet between June and September 1941 close to 65,000 officers and men of the Red Army were taken ... Firsthand accounts by former Soviet POWs close this review of a chapter of recent history unknown to most.

• 2000-09-30
• Article
• by: Tigran S. Drambyan

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

Louis Maresca A new protocol on explosive remnants of war: The history and negotiation of Protocol V to the 1980 Convention on ... of war: The history and negotiation of Protocol V to the 1980 ...

• 2004-12-31
• Article
• by: Louis Maresca

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Mine action

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Explosive remnants of war

1979 - 1989 A couple of m onths after the arrival of Vietnamese troops in Phnom Penh in mid-1979, some international organizations, ... In 2003 it resumed water and sanitation projects in prisons and ...

• 2009-12-10
• Miscellaneous

• Places
  • Asia and the Pacific
    • Cambodia

The exhibition will be entitled Humanity and war: 150 years of war ... The ICRC's exhibition pays homage to the victims of armed conflict and to the photographers who, since 1860 during the American ...

• 2009-08-28
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • France

From Yalta to Dien Bien Phu recounts the work of the ICRC during the decade following the Second World War – the era of conflicts ... Using ICRC archives only recently opened up to the public, ...

• 2007-03-12
• Publication

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

For indeed, the victims of a war are not only the sick, the wounded or the starving; ... belligerents: for the first time in history, the relatives of captured soldiers heard that their sons, fathers, ...

• 2002-07-15
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Reuniting families

... the International Committee foresaw " a struggle which will exceed in barbarity anything which history has known so far " . ... will ensure that chemical warfare becomes a relic of history.

• 1997-05-07
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Chemical and biological weapons

5. The participating High Contracting Parties stress that the Fourth Geneva Convention, which takes fully into account imperative ... 1 of the Convention and aimed at ensuring the respect of the ...

• 2002-09-30
• Article

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Contemporary challenges for IHL
      • Occupation

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Civilians

• Places
  • Middle East
    • Israel

• Places
  • Middle East
    • Palestine

• People
  • Civilians

... without weapons Selected Topics History of the ICRC: the Second World War The invasion of Poland by German troops on 1 September ... History of the ICRC: since 1945 At the end of the Second World War, ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

At the end of the Second World War, ... humanitarian law Efforts to regulate warfare have existed to a greater or lesser extent throughout history. ... History of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

The following document explains the history of the emblems. ... The following document explains the history of the emblems. ... Since the emblem was to reflect the neutrality of the armed forces'medical ...

• 2007-01-14
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Emblem

Among its five members was a local man named Henry Dunant who, the year before, had published a crusading book (A Souvenir of ... By the end of the year the committee had brought together government ...

• 2010-10-29
• Overview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

The CCW [2 ] (Protocol II as amended) introduced a number of changes that were widely welcomed, but it fell far short of totally ... As at the end of April 1998, there were a total of 124 signatories ...

• 1998-12-31
• Article
• by: Stuart Maslen, Peter Herby

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Weapons
      • Anti-personnel landmines

Monika Ampferl 30-06-1999 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 834, by Monika Ampferl Abstract of the article " La ... During the war, the tracing activity of the German Red Cross was ...

• 1999-06-30
• Article
• by: Monika Ampferl

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

Gilbert Jaeger On the history of the international protection of refugees 30-09-2001 Article, International Review of the Red ... Abstract Whereas the history of protection of refugees dates back at ...

• 2001-09-30
• Article
• by: Gilbert Jaeger

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Refugees and displaced persons

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

This article retraces the origin and development throughout history of the main rules of international law adopted to safeguard ... throughout history of the main rules of international law adopted ...

• 2004-06-30
• Article
• by: François Bugnion

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Conduct of hostilities
      • Cultural property

01-01-2009 1859 Battle of Solferino - Henry Dunant 1863 International Committee for the relief of military wounded: as from 1876, ... 1986 Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent ...

• 2009-01-01
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

... in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. ... century, are a must for all those who are interested in contemporary history.

• 1985-12-31
• Publication
• by: Pierre Boissier

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

... in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. ... century, are a must for all those who are interested in contemporary history.

• 1984-12-31
• Publication
• by: André Durand

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War