Sunday, December 5, 2010

Red Cross and Geneva Convention



Wars are man-made conflicts in which all sides suffer, and as the saying goes "in the war and love anything goes." We are very sad to think that we cannot do anything against the war. This was thought until 1862 when a Swiss man named Jean-Henri Dunant came up with the idea of creating a group that could help those who are directly affected by war and other disasters. Thus the Red Cross was created, an international volunteer group that if it is true, I could not fight the war at least try to appease the most that could be direct effects of war on people like soldiers or those who go wounded by fighting in the place they live.
With this effort was proposed that so-called "rules of war" which would protect:
1. The wounded and sick in the field.
2. The wounded, sick and shipwrecked at sea.
3. Prisoners of war.
4. Civilians in Time of Armed Conflict.
These are the rules that were in so-called Geneva Conventions.

3 comments:

  1. remove that picture jajaja.
    is important know what is the importance of the red cross and all the help they can bring us.

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  2. the Red Cross has made an important job and we have to help them to get better by donations and things like that

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  3. The Red Cross are some heroes are a life-saving help anytime that you need them. They are trained for emergencies and are very humanitarian.

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