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Dissemination of the Geneva Conventions among medical personnel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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Medical assistance to wounded and sick in time of war has become inconceivable without the protection of humanitarian law.
It is to the great credit of the Red Cross founders and the members of the 1864 Diplomatic Conference that they immediately recognised the need not only to ensure care for the wounded but also to protect them by humanitarian law. This was codified in the Geneva Convention of August 22nd, 1864, for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded in the armed forces in the field.
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 5 , Issue 49 , April 1965 , pp. 171 - 181
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1965
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Report to be submitted by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross.
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page 172 note 1 The Geneva Conventions of August 12th 1949, Commentary published under the general editorship of Jean S. Pictet, Director for General Affairs of the International Committee of the Red Cross; I—Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field. Published by the ICRC, Geneva, 1952, 466 p.Google Scholar
page 172 note 2 Article common to all four Conventions. Cf. Second Convention, Article 48; Third Convention, Article 127; Fourth Convention, Article 144.
page 173 note 1 In 1951 the International Committee of the Red Cross arranged for the publication of a short summary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 for the use of military personnel and of the general public, in the form of a booklet issued in French, English and Spanish.
page 174 note 1 e.g. Articles 13, 18, 22, 26, 27, 35 and 44.
page 174 note 2 See Final Record of the Diplomatic Conference of Geneva, 1949, Vol. II-B, pages 70 and 112.
page 175 note 1 Geneva Convention of 1929, I, Article 10—“The personnel of Voluntary Aid Societies, duly recognised and authorised by their Government, who may be employed on the same duties as those of the personnel mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 9, are placed on the same footing as the personnel contemplated in that paragraph, provided that the personnel of such societies is subject to military law and regulations.”
page 175 note 2 Resolution No. LII, Paras. 3 and 4.
page 177 note 1 Cf. Report submitted to the Health and Social Commission of the Council of Delegates of the Centenary Congress—Geneva 1963.