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Plan of action for the dissemination of the Geneva Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jean Des Cilleuls
Jean Des Cilleuls*
Affiliation:
President of the “Société de Droit International Médical”
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Extract

The report which has been entrusted to us as French co-rapporteur attempts to complete that which we submitted to the International Congress of the Neutrality of Medicine in Time of War, held in Paris on April 6 to 8, 1959.

Several weeks later, the Revue Internationale des Services de Santé published directives of action for the dissemination of the Geneva Conventions by Lieutenant-Colonel R. Belvaux of the Belgian Army, as a result of an international enquiry undertaken by the International Committee of Military Medicine and Pharmacy and to which 27 countries had replied.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 5 , Issue 47 , February 1965 , pp. 64 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1965

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References

page 64 note 1 Following on this report:

The International Congress of the Neutrality of Medicine, recognizing the value of the provisions of the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 at present ratified by nearly every State, convinced that these Conventions, to produce their full effect, must be widely disseminated, as their signatories have expressly undertaken to do, expressed the wish:

“that the medical body in each country intervenes with the public Authorities in order to urge them to develop the dissemination of these Conventions, notably in schools, universities and military establishments and actively aids them in this task, in co-operation with legal experts specially qualified to give such assistance.”

page 68 note 1 Circular No. 782 CAB/DSSA of February 22, 1962, relative to the Geneva Conventions.

page 70 note 1 The Delegates of the Centenary Congress of the International Red Cross (Geneva, September 2–9, 1963) in addition recommended “that the authorities responsible for these contingents should agree to take all necessary measures to prevent and restrain any infringements of the said Conventions”.

During the same period a motion adopted at the 25th session of the International Office of Military Medicine Documentation (Lausanne, 1963) and transmitted to the General Secretariat of UNO by the Swiss Federal Government, stressed the necessity for the HQ of UN forces to have an adviser or a medico-military section, capable of drawing up plans for the organization of homogeneous medical services having, obviously, to accompany the disparate forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council.