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Aid to refugees – The rôle of the International Red Cross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

When one studies the rôle of the International Red Cross in favour of so-called international refugees, who do not benefit from the national regime in the country of their residence, it is interesting to attempt to define, from a legal point of view, the character of the interventions which are made by this institution.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1961

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Footnotes

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We wish to thank the editors for having given us permission to reproduce this study which has appeared in the Handbuch des internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts, herausgegeben von Walter Schätzel und Theodor Veiter im Auftrage des Komitees für Rechtsfragen der AER/AWR — Fürst Franz Josef von Liechtenstein-Stiftung (Fridtjof-Nansen-Institut) —Abhandlungen zu Flüchtlingsfragen Band I — Wilhelm Braumüller, Wien IX/66, Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung Ges.m.b.H. (Ed. Note).

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