IRRC No. 144

Indo-China–Asian sub-continent–Middle East–People's Democratic Republic of Yemen–Europe–ICRC President in Tunisia

Reading time 1 min read
Download PDF

Between the end of December 1972 and mid-January 1973, National Red Cross Societies opened three offices to trace missing persons: in Saigon, Vientiane and Phnom-Penh. The ICRC has sent to these three towns specialists from its Central Tracing Agency to help the Societies organize the offices, prepare the necessary equipment (printing index cards in the local vernaculars, for example), and train local staff. Work has already started on the registration of requests for news. At the same time, information campaigns have been launched through the press and over the radio in order to make the people and local authorities aware of the opening of these national tracing services.

Download PDF

Continue reading #IRRC No. 144

All articles

Indo-China–Asian sub-continent–Middle East–People's Democratic Republic of Yemen–Europe–ICRC President in Tunisia author:

1 min read

Meetings of advisory groups of experts author:

1 min read

Some ICRC Relief Consignment Statistics for Last Year author:

1 min read

Courses on the Law of Armed Conflict author:

1 min read

Lebanon author: Franoise Bory

1 min read

Dissemination of the Geneva Conventions: Khmer Republic – Norway – Togo author:

1 min read

Honorary Degree author: Jean Pictet

1 min read

Medical Assistants in Africa author:

1 min read

Extract from the Statutes of the International Committee of the Red Cross author:

1 min read

Go back to the first article