International Civil Defense Organization

International civil defense organization ICDO
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English name	International Civil Defense Organization (ICDO)
French name	l'Organisation Internationale de Protection Civile
Organization type	Intergovernmental Organization
status	active
Seat of the organs	Geneva , Switzerland
Secretary General	Belkacem Elketroussi
Member States	57
founding	1931 as the Association des Lieux de Genève
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The International Civil Protection Organization or International Organization for Civil Defense ( English International Civil Defense Organization (ICDO) , French l'Organisation Internationale de Protection Civile (OIPC) , Spanish Organización Internacional de Protección Civil ) is an international organization founded in 1966 with headquarters in Geneva ( Switzerland ) . Your task is to develop sustainable civil protection .

The current Secretary General of the ICDO is Belkacem Elketroussi .

history

The ICDO emerged from the Association Internationale des Lieux de Genève , an association founded in Paris ( France ) in 1931 by the French surgeon Georges Saint-Paul .

The founding treaty was signed in Monaco on October 17, 1966 and entered into force on March 1, 1972.

The office of the International Civil Protection Organization in Lancy, Canton of Geneva

purpose

The purpose is to ensure the worldwide development and improvement of organizations and means to protect the civilian population from the consequences of natural disasters in peacetime and from the consequences of the use of weapons in time of war.

Member States

In principle, membership is open to all states. Germany and most of the other Western and Latin American countries have so far stayed away from the ICDO.

There are also three other ways to participate:

• Observer status
• Associate member status
• Affiliated Membership Status : This status is open to international organizations and NGOs as well as private corporations.

Full Members
Egypt	03/01/1972	Burkina Faso	09/06/1978
Benin	03/01/1972	Iraq	08/03/1979
Gabon	03/01/1972	Morocco	08/29/1980
Qatar	03/01/1972	Ivory Coast	04/02/1981
Liberia	03/01/1972	Central African Republic	07/15/1982
Lebanon	03/01/1972	Oman	December 20, 1985
Mauritania	03/01/1972	El Salvador	12/30/1985
Saudi Arabia	03/01/1972	Cameroon	06/17/1989
Syria	03/01/1972	Haiti	11/30/1989
Cyprus	03/01/1972	Bahrain	03/20/1990
Mauritania	04/03/1972	People's Republic of China	09/03/1992
Syria	09/12/1972	Russia	05/06/1993
Libya	09/27/1972	Azerbaijan	11/03/1993
Philippines	08/13/1973	Armenia	04/01/1994
Democratic Republic of Congo	11/12/1973	Bosnia and Herzegovina	04/05/1994
Mali	March 16, 1974	Sudan	04/06/1994
Ghana	08/02/1974	Georgia	01/12/1995
Senegal	06/24/1975	Kazakhstan	03/15/1996
Pakistan	11/08/1975	Moldova	01/11/1997
Lesotho	December 25, 1976	Yemen	10/15/1997
Niger	05/03/1977	United Arab Emirates	05/16/1999
Algeria	11/26/1977	Mongolia	04/11/2002
Jordan	02/11/1978	Nigeria	07/10/2004
Observer Members
France	December 19, 1990	Switzerland	05/01/1997
Rwanda	December 19, 1990	Malta	02/10/1998
Chile	04/28/1993	Ukraine	10/02/1998
Slovakia	06/02/1994	Palestine	October 29, 1998
South Africa	October 19, 1994	Portugal	May 18, 2000
Monaco	04/29/1996	Kyrgyzstan	10/14/2002
Mauritius	11/26/1996	Zimbabwe	03/04/2004
Associated Members
Council of Arab Interior Ministers (CAIM), Arab League			October 29, 1998
Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS), Saudi Arabia			October 29, 1998
Disaster Management Training Center, Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), Jordan			11/02/2000
Union Nationale Française de Protection Civile (UNFPC), France			11/02/2000
Conseil National de la Protection Civile (CNPC), France			11/02/2000
Corps Mondial de Secours, France			11/02/2000
Mahafiz-E-Watan, Pakistan			11/02/2000
The Institute of Civil Defense and Disaster Studies (ICDDS), United Kingdom			11/02/2000
Union Suisse pour la Protection Civile (USPC), Switzerland			04/10/2002
World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction (WAPMERR), Russia			04/10/2002
Scientific and Production Center - Rescue Equipment, Russia			11/23/2006

structure

The ICDO consists of three organs: a General Assembly , an Executive Council and a Secretariat. The Council may set up additional commissions if it deems this appropriate for the achievement of the organizational objectives.

• General Assembly . All member states are represented in the assembly. Senegal currently holds the chairmanship, Pakistan is the deputy .
• Executive Council . The general assembly elects the members of the council for a four-year term; half of the members are replaced every two years. The following countries are currently represented: Egypt , Algeria , Benin , Côte d'Ivoire , Ghana , Haiti , Jordan , Cameroon , Mauritania , Niger , Pakistan , Russian Federation , Saudi Arabia , Senegal , Syria , Sudan and the People's Republic of China . The Council is currently chaired by Algeria, represented by Benin.
• Office. The secretariat includes the general secretary and other staff.

References

See also

• Geneva Conventions
• International humanitarian law

literature

• Pierrick Le Jeune: L'Organisation Internationale de Protection Civile ou le difficile accès au statut d'institution spécialisée des Nations Unies , in: Revue Québécoise de Droit International 14.2 (2001) pp. 117-135. ( PDF ).

Web links

Commons : International Civil Defense Organization  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Information from the Geneva Humanitarian Forum

Individual evidence

1. ^ ICDO Secretary General. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .