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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
From the beginning of its existence the Red Cross has had two objectives: the setting up of relief societies and the promotion of rules in law justifying and facilitating relief action. At the present time it has two types of activity: relief in the field and the improvement of humanitarian law. It is this second activity, the Red Cross contribution to humanitarian law, which we shall consider here.
Extracts from an address in Geneva, in 1967, to the Summer School organized by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in co-operation with the International Student Movement for the United Nations.
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