IRRC No. 194

The Emblem of the Red Cross - A Brief History (II)

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Soon after the First World War the ICRC proposed that the Geneva Convention be revised on the basis of experience of that conflict. It had the question included on the agenda of the Tenth and Eleventh International Conferences of the Red Cross in Geneva, in 1921 and 1923.

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The Emblem of the Red Cross - A Brief History (II) author: François Bugnion

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