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More than one million Rwandan people fled Rwanda after civil war broke out in 1994. That year the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) took responsibility for caring for 450,000 people at four refugee camps in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), for 300,000 people at four camps in Tanzania, for 200,000 people at eleven camps in Burundi, and 10,000 people at two camps in Uganda. The IFRC carried out these relief actions in collaboration with the local National Red Cross Societies.
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This image, taken from the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),was taken during the 1876-1878 Serbo-Turkish war.Founded in early 1876 following the recommendations made in Henry Dunant's book, "A Memory of Solferino", and the creation of the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded (Military) that followed, the Serbian Red Cross treated the wounded following the outbreak of the Serbo-Turkish war in June 1876.
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This image of workers in a tire factory in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) was taken in the 1970s. It illustrates the dislocation of major manufacturing processes from Europe and North America to developing countries, which was one result of the spectacular rise of multinational enterprises (MNE) in those years. Internationally operating enterprises existed already at the end of the 19th Century when technological progress lead to a first wave of global economic integration. The importance of these companies increased noticeably after WWII.
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This image of the "Founding Fathers" of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) shows the heads of delegations at the first International Telegraph Conference held in Paris in 1865.
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Speech of Mr Olivier Coutau, Delegate for international Geneva, Republic and State of Geneva, on the occasion of the vernissage of the book "MEETINGS" (In French)
18 December 2012
"MEETINGS"
Lorsqu'il nous a été proposé par Christian Lutz, ce titre s'est imposé comme une évidence. L'ouvrage qui nous rassemble ce soir est fait de rencontres.
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This photograph from the album of the League of Nations staff shows the Library personnel in the Reading Room at Palais Wilson, which was the seat of the League from 1920 to 1936.