Red Cross in Moldova willing to strengthen relations with mass media

A roundtable on Exploring Humanitarian Law was organised in Chisinau on Wednesday December 20. Such events were held in over 20 countries and are intended to serve as instruments for information about the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), national programme coordinator at the Red Cross society in Moldova Victoria Varlan says. IHL represents a set of rules that protect persons in times of armed conflict. The National Red Cross Societies are preparing to act as additional organisation of the public authorities in all the fields provided for by the Conventions in Geneva and in favour of victims of civil and military war, Victoria Varlan asserts. According to the quoted source, students and pupils in Moldova began to study the humanitarian law as part of some optional disciplines, which led to an increase in the number of volunteers of the National Red Cross. Media representatives have been informed during the roundtable about the programmes unfolded by the Red Cross Society in Moldova. Next week, the Red Cross Society in Moldova will launch in premiere an annual report “World Disasters 2006”, focused on neglected global crises. International Movement of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies presents such a report in most of countries in the world in an attempt to make people to acknowledge the causes of many disasters happening in the world and as a result, to diminish their consequences and prevent them.