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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.
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- Security Council
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal
- Geneva Convention
- Independent Organization
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Moorehead, Carolin., Dunant’s Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross HarperCollins, London, 1998
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Turner, B. (2007). International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74024-6_33
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