Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The ICRC, the League, and the Tansley Report
Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The ICRC, the League and the Report on the Re-appraisal of the Role of the Red Cross
Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Role and Status of International Humanitarian Volunteers and Organizations
Author: Yves Beigbeder
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004634584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Since its birth with the creation of the international Red Cross in 1863, international humanitarian assistance has developed considerably since World War II. In accordance with the Red Cross principle of humanity, it aims at preventing and alleviating human suffering wherever it may be found, protecting life and health and ensuring respect for the human being. International humanitarian assistance involves a complex network of government agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and individual volunteers: it has been labelled a `non-system'. While governments and intergovernmental organizations play a dominant and structured role in this field, the non-governmental organizations and their volunteers have proved to be their necessary operational partners, providing material, medical and moral relief and care wherever it may be needed, beyond borders, at the grassroots level. Following a brief review of recent humanitarian activities of intergovernmental organizations, and an analysis of current trends of voluntarism, this book focuses on the role, status and attitudes of the major humanitarian non-governmental organizations, including the Red Cross organizations, the British charities, Church-related agencies, medical volunteers (such as the `French Doctors') and U.N. volunteers. Should humanitarian non-governmental organizations provide relief assistance with the Red Cross concern for discretion, neutrality and impartiality? Or should they bear witness and denounce publicly human rights violations, at the risk of being expelled from recipient countries and having to stop their assistance? The controversial claim of a `right' to receive and a `duty' to provide humanitarian assistance beyond borders is also addressed, as well as the possible need for a status to be accorded to international volunteers.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004634584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Since its birth with the creation of the international Red Cross in 1863, international humanitarian assistance has developed considerably since World War II. In accordance with the Red Cross principle of humanity, it aims at preventing and alleviating human suffering wherever it may be found, protecting life and health and ensuring respect for the human being. International humanitarian assistance involves a complex network of government agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and individual volunteers: it has been labelled a `non-system'. While governments and intergovernmental organizations play a dominant and structured role in this field, the non-governmental organizations and their volunteers have proved to be their necessary operational partners, providing material, medical and moral relief and care wherever it may be needed, beyond borders, at the grassroots level. Following a brief review of recent humanitarian activities of intergovernmental organizations, and an analysis of current trends of voluntarism, this book focuses on the role, status and attitudes of the major humanitarian non-governmental organizations, including the Red Cross organizations, the British charities, Church-related agencies, medical volunteers (such as the `French Doctors') and U.N. volunteers. Should humanitarian non-governmental organizations provide relief assistance with the Red Cross concern for discretion, neutrality and impartiality? Or should they bear witness and denounce publicly human rights violations, at the risk of being expelled from recipient countries and having to stop their assistance? The controversial claim of a `right' to receive and a `duty' to provide humanitarian assistance beyond borders is also addressed, as well as the possible need for a status to be accorded to international volunteers.
The Humanitarians
Author: David P. Forsythe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446327
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446327
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) coordinates the world's largest private relief system for conflict situations. Its staff operates throughout the world, and in recent years the ICRC has mounted large operations in the Balkans and Somalia. Yet despite its very important role its internal workings are mysterious and often secretive. This book examines the ICRC from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day, and provides a comprehensive overview of a unique private organisation, whose governing body remains all-Swiss, but which is recognized in international law as if it were an inter-governmental organization. David Forsythe focuses on the policy making and field work of the ICRC, while not ignoring international humanitarian law. He explores how it exercises its independence, impartiality, and neutrality to try to protect prisoners in Iraq, displaced and starving civilians in Somalia, and families separated by conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. David Forsythe received the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007 from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association.
The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance
Author: Alexandru Grigorescu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495508
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Challenges tradition to show how developments in international relations repeat themselves; we may soon experience a return to past trends.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495508
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Challenges tradition to show how developments in international relations repeat themselves; we may soon experience a return to past trends.
The International Committee of the Red Cross
Author: David P. Forsythe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317289021
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a complex position in international relations, being the guardian of international humanitarian law but often acting discretely to advance human dignity. Treated by most governments as if it were an inter-governmental organization, the ICRC is a non-governmental organization, all-Swiss at the top, and it is given rights and duties in the 1949 Geneva Conventions for Victims of War. Written by two formidable experts in the field, this book analyzes international humanitarian action as practiced by the International Red Cross, explaining its history and structure as well as examining contemporary field experience and broad diplomatic initiatives related to its principal tasks. Such tasks include: ensuring that detention conditions are humane for those imprisoned by reason of political conflict or war providing material and moral relief in conflict promoting development of the humanitarian part of the laws of war improving the unity and effectiveness of the movement Fully updated throughout, the new edition will also include brand new material on: armed actors who do not accept humanitarian restrictions on their actions, including expanded coverage of the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS), Al Shabab, and Boko Haram, among others Syrian internationalized civil war issue of drone strikes and targeted killings, and the continuing push for regulation of what is called cyber war the question of the field of application of international humanitarian law (what is the battlefield?). Particularly when states declare "war" on "terrorist groups" operating inside other states regulation of new weapons and new uses of old weapons
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317289021
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a complex position in international relations, being the guardian of international humanitarian law but often acting discretely to advance human dignity. Treated by most governments as if it were an inter-governmental organization, the ICRC is a non-governmental organization, all-Swiss at the top, and it is given rights and duties in the 1949 Geneva Conventions for Victims of War. Written by two formidable experts in the field, this book analyzes international humanitarian action as practiced by the International Red Cross, explaining its history and structure as well as examining contemporary field experience and broad diplomatic initiatives related to its principal tasks. Such tasks include: ensuring that detention conditions are humane for those imprisoned by reason of political conflict or war providing material and moral relief in conflict promoting development of the humanitarian part of the laws of war improving the unity and effectiveness of the movement Fully updated throughout, the new edition will also include brand new material on: armed actors who do not accept humanitarian restrictions on their actions, including expanded coverage of the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS), Al Shabab, and Boko Haram, among others Syrian internationalized civil war issue of drone strikes and targeted killings, and the continuing push for regulation of what is called cyber war the question of the field of application of international humanitarian law (what is the battlefield?). Particularly when states declare "war" on "terrorist groups" operating inside other states regulation of new weapons and new uses of old weapons
International Humanitarian Assistance
Author: Peter Macalister-Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401769745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401769745
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Annual Report for ...
Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Implementation of International Humanitarian Law
Author: Frits Kalshoven
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9024737842
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Su Wei.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9024737842
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Su Wei.
The Concept and Present Status of the International Protection of Human Rights
Author: Bertie G. Ramcharan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478310
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478310
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description