Download or read book The ICRC the League and the Tansley Report written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ICRC the League and the Report on the Re appraisal of the Role of the Red Cross written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role and Status of International Humanitarian Volunteers and Organizations written by Yves Beigbeder and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Humanitarians written by David P. Forsythe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance written by Alexandru Grigorescu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges tradition to show how developments in international relations repeat themselves; we may soon experience a return to past trends.
Download or read book International Humanitarian Assistance written by Peter Macalister-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Committee of the Red Cross written by David P. Forsythe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Implementation of International Humanitarian Law written by Frits Kalshoven and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1989-07-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Su Wei.
Download or read book The Concept and Present Status of the International Protection of Human Rights written by Bertie G. Ramcharan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report for written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Red Cross Handbook written by International Committee of the Red Cross and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Law at a Time of Perplexity written by Yoram Dinstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Human Rights Ideas written by Bertrand G. Ramcharan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights. Updates include: Discussion of the recent intellectual challenges to the international human rights movement Examination of the establishment and functioning of the Human Rights Council and the Universal Review Process Evaluation of the developments in the area of the Responsibility to Protect and continued efforts to implement the right to development Inclusion of issues such as the push for compensation for slavery, experiments with democracy in a number of countries and the decisions of international judicial and human rights organs on conceptual and protection issues This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Global Institutions, International Law and Human Rights.
Download or read book The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History written by A. Iriye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Human Rights in United States Foreign Policy written by Natalie Kaufman Hevener and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Econnomic and social needs.
Download or read book Assisting the Victims of Armed Conflict and Other Disasters written by Frits Kalshoven and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustaining Relief with Development written by McAllister and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of papers in this book was written over the period 1989-92. Many of them are based on talks given on behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Part I draws together papers within the theme of relief and sustainable development, and covers such issues as disaster prevention and preparedness; research and training; institution building and changing attitudes to economic growth; structural adjustment; and development.
