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Changing world, unchanged protection? Seventy years of the Geneva Conventions

Speech given by ICRC President Peter Maurer to the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 13 March 2019

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

Extract

It's always a pleasure to speak at the Graduate Institute and with an audience in Geneva. There may not be a topic closer to the heart of the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] than tonight's discussion. Our mandate to protect and alleviate suffering in wartime effectively stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949, even if our history dates back further.

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