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Refugees—The Trauma of Exile: The Humanitarian Role of Red Cross and Red Crescent. Edited by Diana Miserez. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1988. Pp. xx, 340. Dfl.165; $89; £52.
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1 The provisions of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, are discharged by the “High Contracting Parties” under the supervision of the “Protecting Powers” and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Its representatives are entitled to inspect places where prisoners of war are confined or where protected civilians are located to obtain evidence regarding their treatment and to make reports and recommendations to the countries that have subscribed to the Conventions. See Schindler, The International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Rights, Int’l Rev. Red Cross, January–February 1979, at 3.
2 Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Aug. 12, 1949, Art. 32, 6 UST 3516, TIAS No. 3365, 75 UNTS 287.