The International Committee Of The Red Cross And Its Mandate To Protect And Assist

Author : Christy Shucksmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509908202
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Committee of the Red Cross and Its Mandate to Protect and Assist written by Christy Shucksmith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governance of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement -- The legal nature and international legal personality of the ICRC -- The ICRC and international law in armed conflict and other situations of violence -- Humanity as a core principle of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement -- New humanitarian horizons for the ICRC -- Interviews with the ICRC -- Case study : accounts of ICRC delgates on the democratic Republic of Congo

Author : Henry Dunant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Red Cross written by Henry Dunant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Geiß
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107171350
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanizing the Laws of War written by Robin Geiß and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.

Author : Rainer Baudendistel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388729
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Bombs and Good Intentions written by Rainer Baudendistel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted again the precarious situation aid agencies find themselves in, caught as they are between the firing lines of the hostile parties, as they are trying to alleviate the plight of the civilian populations. This book offers an illuminating case study from a previous conflict, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36, and of the humanitarian operation of the Red Cross during this period. Based on fresh material from Red Cross and Italian military archives, the author examines highly controversial subjects such as the Italian bombings of Red Cross field hospitals, the treatment of Prisoners of War by the two belligerents; and the effects of Fascist Italy’s massive use of poison gas against the Ethiopians. He shows how Mussolini and his ruthless regime, throughout the seven-month war, manipulated the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – the lead organization of the Red Cross in times of war, helped by the surprising political naïveté of its board. During this war the ICRC redefined its role in a debate, which is fascinating not least because of its relevance to current events, about the nature of humanitarian action. The organization decided to concern itself exclusively with matters falling under the Geneva Conventions and to give priority to bringing relief over expressing protest. It was a decision that should have far-reaching consequences, particularly for the period of World War II and the fate of Jews in Nazi concentration camps.

Author : Christy Shucksmith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509908196
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Committee of the Red Cross and its Mandate to Protect and Assist written by Christy Shucksmith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to consider the legality of the changing practice of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It provides extensive legal analysis of the ICRC as an organisation, legal person, and humanitarian actor. It draws on the law of organisations, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, and other relevant branches of international law in order to critically assess the mandate and practice of the ICRC on the ground. The book also draws on more abstract human-centric concepts, including sovereignty as responsibility and human security, in order to assess the development of the concept of humanity for the mandate and practice of the ICRC. Critically this book uses semi- structured interviews with ICRC delegates to test the theoretical and doctrinal conclusions. The book provides a unique insight into the work of the ICRC. It also includes a case study of the work of the ICRC in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ultimately the book concludes that the ICRC is no longer restricted to the provision of humanitarian assistance on the battlefield. It is increasingly drawn into long-term and extremely complicated conflicts, in which, civilians, soldiers and non-State actors intermingle. In order to remain useful for the people on the ground, therefore, the ICRC is progressively developing its mandate. This book questions whether, on occasion, this could threaten its promise to remain neutral, impartial and independent. Finally, however, it should be said that this author finds that the work of the ICRC is unparalleled on the international stage and its humanitarian mandate is a vital component for those embroiled in the undertaking of and recovery from conflict.

Author : François Bugnion
Publisher : MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims written by François Bugnion and published by MacMillan Education, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald Steinacher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191014974
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanitarians at War written by Gerald Steinacher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial assistance to Jews trapped in Nazi camps across Europe, the ICRC desperately needed to salvage its reputation in order to remain relevant in the post-war world. Indeed, the whole future of Switzerland's humanitarian flagship looked to hang in the balance at this time. Torn between defending Swiss neutrality and battling Communist critics in the early Cold War, the Red Cross leadership in Geneva emerged from the world war with a new commitment to protecting civilians caught in the crossfire of conflict. Yet they did so while interfering with Allied de-nazification efforts in Germany and elsewhere, and coming to the defence of former Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Not least, they provided the tools for many of Hitler's former henchmen, notorious figures such as Joseph Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, to slip out of Europe and escape prosecution - behaviour which did little to silence those critics in the Allied powers who unfavourably compared the 'shabby' neutrality of the Swiss with the 'good neutrality' of the Swedes, their eager rivals for leadership in international humanitarian initiatives. However, in spite of all this, by the end of the decade, the ICRC had emerged triumphant from its moment of existential crisis, navigating the new global order to reaffirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs against the challenge of the Swedes, and playing a formative role in rewriting the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. This uncompromising new history tells the remarkable and intriguing story of how the ICRC achieved this - successfully escaping the shadow of its ambiguous wartime record to forge a new role and a new identity in the post-1945 world.

Author : Cees de Rover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Serve and to Protect written by Cees de Rover and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic law enforcement powers:

Author : Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190613408
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Humanitarian Economics written by Gilles Carbonnier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it matters. Among the issues he discusses are: how are emotions and altruism incorporated within a rational-choice framework? How do the economics of war and terrorism inform humanitarians' negotiations with combatants, and shed light on the role of aid in conflict? What do catastrophe bonds and risk-linked securities hold for disaster response? As more actors enter the humanitarian marketplace (including private firms), Carbonnier's revealing portrayal is especially timely, as is his critique of the transformative power of crises.

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 9780889369634
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Responsibility to Protect written by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty