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  [Australian War Memorial]
In peace time it indicates that a person or object is linked to the Red Cross movement and its fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, independence, and voluntary service.
The emblem's origins lie with the founder of the International Red Cross Committee, Henry Dunant.
The following year the first of the Geneva conventions were passed, in which a red cross made of five equal squares on a white background was officially recognised as the distinctive sign of medical services of armed forces.
www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/redcross/index.htm   (247 words)

  
 Social Psychology, Religious Belief, Censorship and the Holocaust
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross,
The Allies, despite protests from the ICRC, had continually bombarded the supply lines to the camps, exacerbating the already severe conditions prevailing near the end of the war.
Quotations of the Red Cross documentation are taken verbatim from
www.heretical.com /science/socsci.html   (6353 words)

  
 Fr. Tiso, Slovakia and Hitler By DENNIS BARTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The International Red Cross inspected the camps within Slovakia and reported that: '.
In the spring of 1945 the Red Army chased the Germans from the country and sent 150,000 people to prison or slave camps ((GLO 305-6)).
On January 2nd 1945 the President of the International Red Cross Committee wrote to Tiso asking that the deportations be ended.
www.church-in-history.org /pages/booklets/tiso(n)-2.htm   (8254 words)

  
 World War 3 Report #93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Also involved in Red Tactica is former Chilean commando Christian Gatica, currently director of operations and training in Latin America for Kroll Inc., a multinational security firm formerly linked to CIA operations in Argentina.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) during the month of November has cut off most of its food aid to Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
Noting that international isolation of Israeli academics is "steadily worsening," the heads of Israel's universities have formed a panel to fight the boycott.
www.worldwar3report.com /93.html   (14535 words)

  
 IU Office of International Programs - International Research and Development
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A quarterly journal of international relations, which seeks to acquaint a broad audience of readers with the best work - theoretical, empirical and normative - being done in the many intellectual traditions of international studies.
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www.indiana.edu /~ird/other_intl_res.html   (3596 words)

  
 Glossary
DAC Department of the Army Civilian; Development Assistance Committee
ICNND Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense
SEACOORD Coordinating Committee for U.S. Missions Southeast Asia
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