ICRC

• “Icrc.org. you'll find updates on their latest projects and can make donations online by clicking "Help the ICRC," that's in the upper right-hand corner.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2004

• “We are led to believe that in their first week down there they probably will not meet with the 14, but those 14 will be having their audience with the what they call the ICRC next week.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006

• “But even when the ICRC is admitted by governments and guerrilla groups, its role is not always widely understood or appreciated.”

  Red Cross at the Crossroads

• ““The ICRC is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, and when it uses those words, they have the force of law.””

  Red Cross: America practiced torture

• “Restricted: ICRC is allowed to ask the detainee about health and welfare only.”

  Inside Guantánamo

• “Unrestricted: ICRC is allowed full access to talk to the detainee.”

  Inside Guantánamo

• “People who aren't doing fine at all and don't have much prospect of doing fine anytime soon are counting on the ICRC, and the ICRC is counting on you. posted by Shaun at”

  Real reality...

• “Red Cross convoys and hospitals are attacked; delegates are killed or abducted/the ICRC is constantly under the threat of expulsion, which has happened various times in Afghanistan, for example.”

  Red Cross at the Crossroads

• “The ICRC is the organization entrusted by the international committee to uphold the Geneva Conventions, the fourth of which states clearly and unambiguously that occupying powers are not allowed to deport subjects under their occupation.”

  The Huffington Post: Daoud Kuttab: Peace Process Is a Foreign Term in East Jerusalem and Gaza

• “Tribal elders in the villages called the ICRC during the fighting to report civilian casualties and ask for help.”

  Jeremy Scahill: After US Strikes, Afghans Describe "Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies"

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