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Geneva Conventions
Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector
The first Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field”, was signed 150 years ago, on 22 August 1864. The original document fro...
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International Telecommunication Union History Portal Metadata
Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector, Economy and finance
For a century and a half since 1865, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been at the centre of advances in communications – from telegraphy through to the modern...
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Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons
Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Economy and finance
In 1852 and 1853 Carl Durheim, a pioneering photographer from Bern, was commissioned by the Confederation to photograph hundreds of stateless persons and travellers who had been...
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