Voluntary service: a pastime or a profession

Today, as in a dream, I look back on my life as a volunteer, on what I have learned and what it has taught me about the world. At once I am reminded of what the Red Cross meant to me as a child and young person, and what it now means to me as an adult, after twenty years' personal and professional experience. My experience as a volunteer has led me to a post in which I am both a professional and an individual working as a volunteer (National First-aid Director of the Colombian Red Cross Society). The following thoughts arise from that experience.

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Voluntary service: a pastime or a profession author:

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International humanitarian law lies between the Islamic concept and positive international law author: Said El-Dakkak

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Imam Al-Awzai and his humanitarian ideas (707-774) author: Ameur Zemmali

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Missions by the President author:

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Africa—Latin America—Asia—Middle-East—Europe author:

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World Campaign for the Protection of War Victims author:

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Colloquium on the Protection of War Victims (Geneva, 23-24 February 1990) author:

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First regional training course for dissemination officers of the English-speaking National Societies of east and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (Harare, 13-22 November 1989) author:

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ratifies the Protocols author:

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The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ratifies the Protocols author:

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Barbados accedes to the Protocols author:

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Forty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, 30 January-9 March 1990) author:

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