Author : Charles Snodgrass Ryan
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Medicine, Military
ISBN :
'Under the Red Crescent' tells the adventures of an English surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum, 1877-1878. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Henry Garnett
Publisher : Sophia Inst Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781933184333
In 1570, as Christians throughout Europe unite in a Holy League to defeat Turkish invaders, fourteen-year-old Guido of Venice, Italy, leaves the safety of a monastery to serve on a ship his wealthy father has contributed and fights in the Battle of Lepant
Author : Henry Dunant
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN :
Author : Robin Geiß
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107171350
An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.
Author : Hans Haug
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Human rights
ISBN :
Being in force today
Author : Daphne A. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Humanitarian assistance
ISBN :
Author : Annie Ali Khan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9386797496
In present-day Pakistan, in the far corners of Lyari in Karachi, or Hingol in Balochistan, or Thatta in Sindh, tightly knit groups of women keep alive the folklore, songs and legends of Sati—their name for Sita in the Ramayana. The way they sustain the attendant rituals and practices in a nation state with a fixed idea of what constitutes citizenship and who gets to be a primary citizen is at the heart of this book. In Sita under the Crescent Moon, author Annie Ali Khan travels with women devotees—those without resources, subject to intense violence—who, through the bravest and simplest act, that of a pilgrimage, retrace what they remember of the goddess. Who are these pilgrims? How did this relationship with Sati start, and why is she so significant? How do their oral mytho-histories compare to colonial narratives or mainstream definitions of Sati? Even while retelling the stories of these pilgrims, Sita under the Crescent Moon studies how worship has altered the mores of a land—and how the sacral site, made up of clay and thread and tumble weed, grants a woman power to fight against her circumstances.
Author : Clara Barton
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Voluntary health agencies
ISBN :
Author : Corinne Chaponnière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1350253456
A pioneer of humanitarianism and founder of the International Red Cross, Henry Dunant was many things over his lifetime. A devout Christian and social activist, an ambitious but failed businessman, a humanitarian genius, and a bankrupt recluse. In this biography, Corinne Chaponnière reveals the tumultuous trajectory of Henry's life. From his idyllic childhood in Geneva, she follows Henry through the horrors of the Battle of Solferino, his creation of the Red Cross and role in the Geneva Conventions, the disgrace of his bankruptcy and his resurrection as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. It shows how this champion of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war was not an unblemished picture of piety and goodness, but that his empathy and good works played out in tandem with his social ambition and personal drive. It shows how even the best of us fall on hard times, and that the Red Cross was born out of humanitarian ideals coupled with a desire for personal success. This book reveals the story of Henry Dunant, blemishes and all, against the backdrop of the horrors of war, the weight of religion and the birth of humanitarianism in the 19th century.
Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190613327
Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.
