Jean Pictet
Red Cross international lawyer (1914-2002) · Switzerland · Academics · Died at 87
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Something wrong?Jean Simon Pictet was a Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner working in international humanitarian law.
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Jean Simon Pictet was a Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner working in international humanitarian law. First as a secretary-jurist, and then as a senior executive and Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Pictet was instrumental in drafting the 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of victims of war, their Commentaries, and negotiating the 1977 Additional Protocols. He also proposed the Red Cross Movement’s seven Fundamental Principles, which were adopted at Vienna in 1965: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality. In 1989, the Jean-Pictet Competition, an international humanitarian law competition for students, was founded and named after him.
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