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In peacetime, people see Red-Cross sponsored program like giving blood or taking swimming lessons. They also aid refugees and victims of such natural disasters as floods, fires and famines. Much more controversial are the Red Cross's activities during wartime. Unlike most relief organizations, the ICRC helps the wounded and sick on both sides of an armed conflict. Red Cross relief workers are dedicated to neutrality. According to them, there are two different traditions at work out there in the humanitarian movement. One of them is international human rights, which most Americans can identify with, and then there's this very different tradition called the laws of war tradition, which is basically to ensure that if people are going to fight, conduct the fighting according to certain rules. And this is exactly what the Red Cross is trying to do.
To civilize the conflicts, the ICRC promotes the Geneva Conventions, which are international agreements or laws of war that protect prisoners of wars, wounded soldiers and civilians. They were ratified by hundreds of countries and the basic document dates to 1864, and later revised in 1949. They're a bunch of rules that are quite simple, like "Don't fire on ambulances, don't shoot on non-combatants, don't torture prisoners, allow prisoners to communicate with their families, allow the Red Cross to visit you if you're a prisoner of war, spare civilians..." Generally speaking, they're very house-and-garden common rules, and in lots of combat situations they function more or less adequately. In fact, the Geneva Conventions have done a lot to civilize certain aspects of war, and so they have a lot of legitimacy. In the Gulf War, for example, when a hundred thousand Iraqi prisoners were taken, the United States. subscribed to the Geneva Conventions, released them according to those conventions.
So the task of Red Cross can be regarded as obeying and following the standards of decency, the one that ought to prevail in the world are not white, western European values; They're human universals. To disseminate their faith, the ICRC has adopted a variety of means. Though it's just the beginning of work, they're putting out comic books or running radio soap operas to tell the story. Instead of just sitting there reading out the Geneva Conventions, they're trying to translate them into new languages. And it's surely one of the most interesting bits of work that's going on.
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16.What is the general idea of this lecture？
17.According to the lecture, which activity is NOT performed by the ICRC？
18.Which of the following statement is NOT true about ICRC？
19.Which of the following statement about Geneva Conventions is true according to the lecture？
20.What did the United States do in the Gulf War in accordance with the Geneva Conventions？
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