Message-ID: <199509021652.SAA24350@rocket.iprolink.ch> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 18:52:10 +0200 From: mailto:astarte@ROCKET.IPROLINK.CH> To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@american.edu>
FROM: mailto:comrex_dip@GVA.ICRC.ORG
SUBJECT: ANNOUNCEMENT : the international committee of the red
cross (ICRC) has opened a site on the web
CC:
INTERNET
31.08.95/KSA
MESSAGE REF: COMREX/DIP 95/
REF:
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is pleased
to announce that its World Wide Web site has just opened at the
following address:
The site provides information on a wide range of issues related
to conflict and conflict victims as well as the role,
activities, concerns and opinions of the ICRC. The information
is in the form of press releases, fact sheets, in-depth
articles, illustrated brochures, position papers, etc..
The texts of the main treaties of International Humanitarian Law
(the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols) are
also on the site, together with information about this body of
law and the issues around it.
Users will also find information on ICRC involvement and
positions concerning events such as the Review Conference of the
1980 UN Weapons Convention, the Beijing Conference on Women, and
information and documents on the December International
Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (which brings
together States and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement), as well as links to the sites of other Red Cross/Red
Crescent organizations.
Please let us know if you would like to be added to our mailing
list to receive press releases and the weekly ICRC News by
e-mail. Please send mailing list information to:
mailto:comrex_pr@gva.icrc.org
We wish you happy surfing and please feel free to forward this
message to others who may be interested. We look forward to your
feedback,
Karen Saddler, Public Information Division
ICRC - INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS - GENEVA -
SWITZERLAND
19 AVENUE DE LA PAIX - CH - 1202 GENEVE - PHONE: (022) 734 60 01
- TELEX: 414226 - FAX (022) 733 20 57