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International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Two other main countries in the war, the Soviet Union and Japan, were not party to the 1929 Geneva Conventions and were not legally required to follow the rules of the conventions.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The ICRC had to stop complaining about the treatment of detainees in concentration camps in case the ICRC was stopped from working for POWs.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 After November 1943, the ICRC could send parcels to concentration camp detainees with known names and locations.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Because the notices of receipt for these parcels were often signed by other inmates, the ICRC managed to register the identities of about 105,000 detainees in the concentration camps and delivered about 1.1 million parcels, mostly to the camps Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 On 12 March 1945, ICRC president Jacob Burckhardt was told by SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner that the ICRC's delegates could visit the concentration camps, but the delegates would have to stay in the camps until the end of the war.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Ten delegates, among them Louis Haefliger (Camp Mauthausen), Paul Dunant (Camp Theresienstadt) and Victor Maurer (Camp Dachau), visited the camps.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Louis Haefliger told American troops about the forceful eviction or blasting of Mauthausen-Gusen and saved the lives of about 60,000 inmates.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 His actions were condemned by the ICRC because they were deemed as acting unduly on his own authority and risking the ICRC's neutrality.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Another example of great humanitarian spirit was Friedrich Born (1903-1963), an ICRC delegate in Budapest who saved the lives of about 11,000 to 15,000 Jewish people in Hungary.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Marcel Junod (1904-1961), a doctor from Geneva, was another famous delegate during the Second World War.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 He was one of the first foreigners to visit Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped, and wrote his thoughts in his book Warrior without Weapons.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 On 12 August 1949, the existing two Geneva Conventions were changed, and the Hague Convention about casualties at sea was brought into the Geneva Convention "family".
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 It was renamed the Second Geneva Covention, and so the second convention of 1929 is now called the third convention.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Fourth Geneva Convention, about the "Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War," was established.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 On 8 June 1977 extra article "protocols" were added to make the conventions apply to internal conflicts such as civil wars.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Since 1993, non-Swiss citizens have been allowed to serve as Committee delegates abroad, a task which was previously restricted to Swiss citizens.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 On 16 October 1990, the UN General Assembly gave the ICRC observer status for its assembly sessions and sub-committee meetings, the first observer status given to a private organization.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The resolution was jointly proposed by 138 member states and introduced by the Italian ambassador, Vieri Traxler, in memory of the organization's origins in the Battle of Solferino.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 An agreement with the Swiss government signed on 19 March 1993, affirmed the already long-standing policy of full independence of the Committee from any interference by Switzerland.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The agreement protects the full sanctity of all ICRC property in Switzerland including its headquarters and archive, grants members and staff legal immunity, exempts the ICRC from all taxes and fees, guarantees the protected and duty-free transfer of goods, services, and money, provides the ICRC with secure communication privileges at the same level as foreign embassies, and simplifies Committee travel in and out of Switzerland.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 It broke its usual silence when it denounced the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and again in 1995 about the crimes that happened in and around Srebrenica when it said, "We must acknowledge that despite our efforts to help thousands of civilians forcibly expelled from the town and despite the dedication of our colleagues on the spot, the ICRC's impact on the unfolding of the tragedy was extremely limited."
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 It went public once again in 2007 to decry "major human rights abuses" by Burma's military government including forced labor, starvation, and murder of men, women, and children.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 In the 1990s, more delegates lost their lives than at any point in its history, especially when working in local and internal armed conflicts.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 These incidents often demonstrated a lack of respect for the rules of the Geneva Conventions and their protection symbols.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 He died on 19 May 1992 at the age of 39, one day after a Red Cross transport he was escorting was attacked in the former Yugoslavian city of Sarajevo.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Fernanda Calado (Spain), Ingeborg Foss (Norway), Nancy Malloy (Canada), Gunnhild Myklebust (Norway), Sheryl Thayer (New Zealand), and Hans Elkerbout (Netherlands).
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 They were murdered at point-blank range while sleeping in the early hours of 17 December 1996 in the ICRC field hospital in the Chechen city of Nowije Atagi near Grozny.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Rita Fox (Switzerland), Véronique Saro (Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire), Julio Delgado (Colombia), Unen Ufoirworth (DR Congo), Aduwe Boboli (DR Congo), and Jean Molokabonge (DR Congo).
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 On 26 April 2001, they were en route with two cars on a relief mission in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo when they came under fatal fire from unknown attackers.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 He was working as a water engineer in Afghanistan and travelling with local colleagues when their car was stopped by unknown armed men.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 He was killed by unknown attackers on 22 July 2003 when his car was fired upon near the city of Hilla in the south of Baghdad.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The original motto of the International Committee of the Red Cross was Inter Arma Caritas ("Amidst War, Charity").
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Because Geneva is in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the ICRC is also known under its French name Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR).
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The official symbol of the ICRC is the Red Cross on white background (the inverse of the Swiss flag)with the words "COMITE INTERNATIONAL GENEVE" circling the cross.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The ICRC drew up seven fundamental principles in 1965 that were adopted by the entire Red Cross Movement.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 All payments to the ICRC are voluntary and are received as donations based on two types of appeals issued by the Committee: an annual Headquarters Appeal to cover its internal costs and Emergency Appeals for its individual missions.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Most of the ICRC's funding comes from Switzerland and the United States, with the other European states and the E.U. close behind.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Together with Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, they contribute about 80-85% of the ICRC's budget.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The ICRC is responsible for legally recognizing a relief society as an official national Red Cross or Red Crescent society and thus accepting it into the Movement.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 After recognition by the ICRC, a national society is admitted as a member to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The ICRC and the Federation cooperate with the individual national societies in their international missions, especially with human, material, and financial resources and organizing on-site logistics.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 According to the 1997 Seville Agreement, the ICRC is the lead Red Cross agency in conflicts while other organizations within the Movement take the lead in non-war situations.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 National societies will be given the lead especially when a conflict is happening within their own country.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Each delegation is under the responsibility of a Head of delegation who is the official representative of the ICRC in the country.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Of its 2,000 professional employees, roughly 800 work in its Geneva headquarters and 1,200 expatriates work in the field.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 About half of the field workers serve as delegates managing ICRC operations in the different countries while the other half are specialists like doctors, agronomists, engineers or interpreters.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The international staff are assisted by some 13,000 national employees, so about 15,000 people work for the ICRC.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Directorate consists of a Director-General and five directors in the areas of "Operations", "Human Resources", "Resources and Operational Support", "Communication", and "International Law and Cooperation within the Movement".
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Director-General has assumed more personal responsibility in recent years, much like a CEO, where he was formerly more of a first among equals at the Directorate.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Assembly (also called the Committee) convenes on a regular basis and is responsible for defining aims, guidelines, and strategies and for supervising the financial matters of the Committee.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 These Assembly members are co-opted for a period of four years, and there is no limit to the number of terms an individual member can serve.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 A three-quarters majority vote from all members is required for re-election after the third term, which acts as a motivation for members to remain active and productive.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Since then, several women have attained the Vice Presidency, and the female proportion after the Cold War has been about 15%.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 While the rest of the Red Cross Movement many be multi-national, the Committee believes that its mono-national nature is an asset because the nationality in question is Swiss.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Thanks to permanent Swiss neutrality, conflicting parties can be sure that no one from "the enemy" will be setting policy in Geneva.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 showed that even National Red Cross Societies can be biased and not maintain neutral humanitarianism.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Furthermore, the Assembly elects a five-member Assembly Council that constitutes an especially active core of the Assembly.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Council meets at least ten times per year and has the authority to decide on behalf of the full Assembly in some matters.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Council is also responsible for organizing the Assembly meetings and for helping communication between the Assembly and the Directorate.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 While one of the vice presidents is elected for a four-year term, the other is appointed permanently with his tenure ending by retirement from the vice presidency or from the Committee.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 In April 2007, Christine Beerli was appointed to succeed Jacques Forster from the beginning of 2008.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The Assembly also selects, for a term of four years, one individual to act as President of the ICRC.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The president is both a member of the Assembly and leader of the ICRC, and he has always been included on the Council since its formation.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The President automatically becomes a member of the assembly and the ICRC once he is appointed, but he does not necessarily come from within the ICRC organization.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 There is a strong faction within the Assembly that wants to reach outside the organization to select a president from the Swiss government or professional circles like the banking or medical fields.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 The president's influence and role is not well-defined, and changes depending upon the times and each president's personal style.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Kellenberger does not make many public appearances or statements but is good at personal negotiation promoting the ICRC privately.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 In February 2007, he was appointed by the Assembly to another four-year term which will run until the end of 2011.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 This way it was been able to get access to, for example, Nelson Mandela, when he was still a prisoner of the apartheid government of South Africa.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 International Committee of the Red Cross: Handbook of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, Louis Maresca: The Role of the ICRC in the Development of International Humanitarian Law.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Neville Wylie: The Sound of Silence: The History of the International Committee of the Red Cross as Past and Present.
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 David P. Forsythe: "The International Committee of the Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law."
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 2/2003, German Red Cross and Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, p. 64-77, ISSN 0937-5414
International Committee of the Red Cross 
 Legacy  Dr. Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the ICRC from 1987-1999, donated four hours of high-definition audiovisual life story interviews to Legacy.
Meridian, Mississippi 
 Meridian is the county seat of Lauderdale County in Mississippi, a state of the United States of America.
Meridian, Mississippi 
 Meridian is the sixth-largest city in the state of Mississippi and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Meridian, Mississippi 
 A recent annexation, in addition to seeing many displaced coastal residents after Hurricane Katrina (many of them have made Meridian their permanent residence), have put the population over 40,000.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 HPC) is one of nine Service Centers that are part of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), which is part of the National Weather Service, which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. government.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 The HPC serves as a center of excellence in Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Medium Range Forecasting (three to seven days) and the interpretation of numerical weather prediction models.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 The HPC issues storm summaries on storm systems bringing significant rainfall and snowfall to portions of the United States.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 Advisories are also issued for tropical cyclones which have moved inland and are no longer the responsibility of the National Hurricane Center.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 The HPC also acts as the backup office to the National Hurricane Center in the event of a complete communications failure.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 The HPC was created in October 1995, when the former National Meteorological Center was reorganised into the NCEP.
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center 
 It is based at the World Weather Building in Camp Springs, Maryland, along with a few of the other National Centers such as the Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the Ocean Prediction Center (OPC), and the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC).
Côte-Nord 
 Côte-Nord (French for "Northern Coast", area 247,627.06 km², or 95,609.34 sq mi) is the second largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada.
Côte-Nord 
 It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River's estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadoussac.
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 
 Plaquemines Parish (Cajun French: Paroisse Plaquemine) is the parish with the biggest combined land and water area in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Naiad (moon) 
 Naiad is not a sphere and probably has not been changed by any internal geological processes after its formation.
Naiad (moon) 
 Since the Voyager 2 flyby, the Neptune system has been studied a lot from ground-based observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope as well.
Naiad (moon) 
 In 2002-03, Keck telescope looked at the system using adaptive optics and detected easily the biggest four closer satellites.
Tamsui 
 Tamsui (Chinese: 淡水鎮, Taiwanese: Tām-súi/Tām-chúi, Tongyong Pinyin: Danshuei, Hanyu Pinyin: Danshui) is a sea-side town in Taipei County, Taiwan.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 In Sweden, her name is spelled as Lovisa Årberg, and she was often called Jungfru Årberg, which means "Maiden Årberg" in English.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 Her mother often nursed sick people, and when Lovisa was a child, she followed her mother to the hospitals.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 She learned a lot about sickness and medicine and how to cure and nurse sick people, and often helped people she knew when they were sick.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 The paid her money when she cured them, so she could stop being a maid and could start to work as a doctor instead.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 The male doctors did not like that a woman worked as a doctor, and the government was worried that she might hurt her patients as she had never learned medicine at a university.
Lovisa Aarberg 
 But when they examined her, they found out that she was a very good doctor, and that she had all the knowledge that the male doctors had.
Kisamor 
 She was a doctor before it was allowed for a woman to be a doctor, and she is the most famous woman doctor in Sweden in the 19th century.
Kisamor 
 One day, she was given a house in Östergötland as a gift by some rich women after she had made them well after sickness.
Kisamor 
 She visited the sick in their cottages, and sometimes they came to her in the inn called Kisa, and therefore, she was called "The Mother in Kisa".
Kisamor 
 In 1825, she was given special permission to work as a doctor, even though it was forbidden for a woman to work as a doctor.
Amalia Lindegren 
 When the artist Qvarnström saw her drawings, he got her a permission to study art at the Swedish Academy of Arts in 1849.
Amalia Lindegren 
 She showed people her paintings in the exhibitions in Paris in 1867, Philadelphia in 1876, and in Chicago in 1893.
Thalassa (moon) 
 Thalassa was discovered sometime before mid-September, 1989 from the images taken by the Voyager 2 probe.
Thalassa (moon) 
 The discovery was said (IAUC 4867) on September 29, 1989, but the text only talks of "25 frames taken over 11 days", giving a discovery date of sometime before September 18.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 They make people sleep and wake at times that are not normal, but these people usually have 8 hours of good sleep.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 "Extrinsic" means something which comes from outside rather than from within a system or an organism.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Jet Lag often affects people who have travelled several hours east or west, through several time zones.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Many people have health problems when they work a shift during the times when their circadian rhythms say that they should be asleep.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Unless they are caused by a head injury, they are usually genetic, that is, people are born with them.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 People with this syndrome are sleepy very early in the evening and they sleep from about 19:00-20:00 in the evening to about 03:00-04:00 in the early morning.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Their sleep and wake times are not regulated by daylight; they are not entrained (adjusted, synchronized) to the daily light/dark cycle.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 The worst circadian rhythm sleep disorder in people who can see is Non-24; their "daily" rhythm lasts 25 hours or more so they sleep and wake up one or more hours later each day.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Appetite, body temperature rhythm and hormone cycles all keep moving around the clock, coming back to the same time after a few weeks.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Their daily rhythm is not exactly 24 hours and it does not adjust to the light/dark cycle in nature because they can not see light.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 Irregular sleep-wake disorder is rare, and it is often possible to find out what causes it, for example, a head injury, a mental handicap, dementia or some other sicknesses.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 In addition, it can be difficult to find a doctor who knows much about circadian rhythms, as the field of study is quite new.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 People with ASPS need a lot of light in the evening and they should avoid bright light in the morning.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 People with DSPS need bright light as soon as they wake up and should try to avoid bright light before bedtime.
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder 
 People with DSPS can take melatonin in the afternoon or evening, and this treatment works also for some people with Non-24.
Asian elephant 
 They are smaller, have smaller ears, a more rounded back, and a fourth toenail on each of their back feet.
Asian elephant 
 They can survive in dry places where less than 40cm of rain falls per year and in wet areas where over 8 meters of rain falls in a year.
Karolina Bock 
 She was a student at the theatrical school Dramatens elevskola in Stockholm between 1806 and 1809, were she was instructed by the principal Sofia Lovisa Gråå.
Karolina Bock 
 Many of the girls graduating from the school between 1804 and 1812, when Gråå was principal, became famous in Sweden, and were called "the girls of Gråå".
Karolina Bock 
 Karolina worked at the theatres Djurgårdsteatern and Nya Komiska Teatern before she was hired at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1814.
Karolina Bock 
 But she never became a star because of the parts she played; she always played old women in comedys, never heroines and main parts.
Karolina Bock 
 Her most popular parts were in the plays Min tante Aurore, Bildhuggaren, Brodertvisten, Syrsan, Preciosa, Jane Eyre and Mäster Smith.
Karolina Bock 
 She was principal for Dramatens elevskola two times; the first time from 1831 to 1834, and the second time from 1841 to 1856.
Karolina Bock 
 Anne Marie Milan Desguillons had ben the first in 1793-1800, but she was principal together with her husband.
Karolina Bock 
 Sofia Lovisa Gråå had ben the first woman who was principal of this school alone, and she was principal in 1804-1812.
Karolina Bock 
 Karolina Bock was a good teacher, but unlike her own teacher, Sofia Lovisa Gråå, she was very strict and firm with her students, so strict that her students rebelled and had her deposed from her position as principal.