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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

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Abstract

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a Swiss-based impartial, neutral and independent organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and other situations of violence.

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  • Moorehead, Caroline, Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross. 1998

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Barry Turner

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© 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Turner, B. (2011). International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-59051-3_31

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