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The “Soldier's Manual”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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It is common knowledge that the ICRC, in order to make the humanitarian Red Cross principles known throughout the world, has produced a school textbook entitled The Red Cross and My Country, followed by a Teacher's Manual. It has already been issued in fifteen languages. More than a million copies have been printed and it has been distributed in schools in fifty-five countries.
Subsequently, it appeared necessary to publish also a handbook for officers and other ranks of the armed forces. It was entitled the Soldier's Manual. Its inspiration was the same as that underlying the school textbook. However, while the latter is designed to inculcate in schoolchildren, by means of short illustrated texts, the principles of the Red Cross and of humanitarian law, the Soldier's Manual summarizes the rules of the Geneva Conventions which should be applied in all circumstances when armed conflict breaks out.
- Type
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Information
- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 11 , Issue 125 , August 1971 , pp. 439 - 440
- Copyright
- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1971
References
page 439 note 1 See, inter alia, International Review, 03 1971.Google Scholar
page 439 note 2 After a mission by Mr. Jean-Marc Laverrière to more than a score of countries in Africa, and after being requested by Chiefs of Staff and officials responsible for defence in a number of countries.
page 440 note 1 Plate.