The question of the protection of victims of non-international conflicts was one item on the agenda of the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross at Vienna in 1965 which adopted a Resolution, No. XXXI, urging the ICRC to continue its work with the aim of strengthening Red Cross humanitarian, assistance to such victims. The same Resolution recommended governments of States parties to the Geneva Conventions and National Societies to support these efforts in their respective countries.

Month by month International Review publishes in this section an account of the large scale relief operation being carried out under the sign of the red cross in Nigeria and the secessionist province (Biafra). Our June issue gave details of resources involved and the considerable number of victims being assisted in both Federal and Biafran territory.

In June we received from Miss Cécile M. Ringgenberg, Tracing Officer at the ICRC Tracing Service in Nigeria, an article which will no doubt interest our readers, as it describes an unspectacular but very humanitarian activity prescribed in the IVth Geneva Convention.

Mr. Diallo Telli, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, and Mr. Gratien Pognon, Assistant Secretary General, on 18 June, met Mr. Marcel A. Naville, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Geneva.

The International Committee has just produced a booklet entitled Rights and Duties of Nurses, as defined by the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949.

The basic idea of this publication is a simple one: to collect in a single work of modest size, and easy to read, the essential provisions of the four 1949 Conventions relative to the medical services and medical personnel. Apart from specialized knowledge, a thorough grounding in the principles and the spirit itself of these Conventions is to be found. It should be added that this brochure, of some fifty pages, is published in French, English, Spanish and German and can be obtained from the ICRC in Geneva at a cost of Sw. fr. 1.50 a copy.

In the March issue of International Review we gave information on the campaign which had been started in African schools in order to make widely known the sign of the Red Cross, through the medium of a textbook entitled The Red Cross and My Country. This wide campaign aroused both among youth and the authorities an increasing interest. It was stated in that issue that by the end of February the textbook, in French and English, had been distributed in schools in fourteen countries.