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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
At the time when the Centenary of the Red Cross is about to be celebrated, it would be fitting to remember the rôle so many members and officers of the International Committee of the Red Cross have played in the drafting and the proclamation of the Rights of the Child. This declaration called the Declaration of Geneva was proclaimed forty years ago by the Council of the “Save the Children International Union” (SCIU). It was on May 17, 1923, that the final draft in five brief clauses was adopted. It is to be recalled that at that time the ICRC and the SCIU worked in close co-operation. Indeed, it was Dr. Frédéric Ferrière's report (then Vice-President of the ICRC) on the disastrous situation in which children lived in Vienna which incited Eglantyne Jebb to come to Geneva for the first time.
page 227 note 1 Speech made on the 25th Anniversary of the SCIU on Jan. 6, 1945, in Geneva, . Plate.Google Scholar
page 229 note 1 See Werner's, G. article on the handing over of the “Declaration of Geneva” to the State Council of Geneva for preservation in the Record Office, in the Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge, March 1924.Google Scholar
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page 232 note 1 The International Review published the text of this Declaration in its October number, 1962. (Edit.)Google Scholar
