Jean Pictet
Jean Simon Pictet (2 September 1914,
Geneva – 30 March 2002,
Meyrin) 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 (
Protocol I and
Protocol II). 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, an international humanitarian law competition for students was founded and named after him.
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