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“Humanitarian ambition”*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

A few hours before leaving for Sarajevo last May, Frédéric Maurice let us have the final pages of an article for the Review. He wanted to mull over his text and polish it, but fate decided otherwise, since he lost his life in tragic circumstances on 19 May 1992, on the outskirts of Sarajevo.

Type
Humanitarian Assistance
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1992

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Footnotes

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Title by the editor

References

1 See the articles published in the Review on humanitarian assistance and on the question of the “droit d'ingérence humanitaire” and the right to assistance, IRRC, No. 288, 0708 1992, pp. 225274.Google Scholar

2 Humanitarian assistance to victims of natural disasters and similar emergency situations, Resolutions 43/131 of 8 December 1990 and 45/100 of 14 December 1990.

3 Moynier, Gustave, Study on the Geneva Convention, 1876 Google Scholar, quoted by Boissier, Pierre, History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Vol. I Google Scholar, From Solferino to Tsushima, Henry Dunant Institute and International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1985, p. 300.Google Scholar

4 Moynier, Gustave, The Red Cross: its Past and its Future, 1882 Google Scholar, quoted by Boissier, ibid. p. 300.

5 “ICRC Appeal for a Humanitarian Mobilization”, in IRRC, No. 244, 0102 1985, pp. 3034, ad 33.”CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 Protocol I, Article 70.