IRRC No. 182

“The Red Cross and My Country” in Ethiopia and Portugal

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On a number of occasions International Review has mentioned the ICRC efforts to make known, through the school textbook The Red Cross and My Country, the underlying principles of the Geneva Conventions. More than a million copies of twenty versions of the textbook have been distributed. In more than sixty countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, it has been a pronounced success. It is intended to imbue primary school pupils with a sense of the fundamental Red Cross principles, and is supplemented by a “Teacher's Manual”.

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