Victims’ rights

One of the current debates concerns the issue as to whether or not it is meaningful to look at IDPs as a distinct category of concern. The International Committee of the Red Cross, for instance, maintains that ICRC does not believe that someone displaced is automatically more vulnerable than someone who is not (ICRC 2009 20) and a study by the Overseas Development Institute stressed that identifying IDPs as a distinct category has not ame ho rated their situation (Collinson, Darcy, and Waddell 2009 53). Similarly, James Hathaway has asked Why should they be treated as a category of concern distinguished from other internal human rights victims who have not been displaced (Hathaway 2007 360). 

Move ambulatory persons away from the source of the contamination. You have to separate the walking wounded from the prone (e.g., All those who can walk, come to me ). Particularly with chemical agents, victims may have eye problems that blind them at least temporarily tell every victim that appears disoriented to put his right hand on the back of the shoulder of the victim in front of him and hang on to that person. In this way, a whole line of survivors can be led out of a contaminated area. 

Right now, we have to deal with incubation time and wait for victims to develop symptoms. The incubation time for anthrax is one to six days. In this example, anthrax victims would have one to six days between exposure and the onset of symptoms. Anthrax is not transmissible from person to person. Compare this to the incubation time with that of the virus, smallpox, which is ten to seventeen days. Smallpox is highly transmissible from person to person. After exposure to smallpox, a person could travel by air around the world a number of times and contaminate many people before developing any symptoms. However, naturally occurring smallpox has been eradicated worldwide since 1977. Terrorism could rapidly change that eradication to an attack since samples of the smallpox virus have been stored in both the United States and Russia. 

Hackers Hackers sometimes crack into networks for the thrill of the challenge or for bragging rights in the hacker community. While remote cracking once required a fair amount of skill or computer knowledge, hackers can now download attack scripts and protocols from the Internet and launch them against victim sites. Thus, while attack tools have become more sophisticated, they have also become easier to use. 

Patients are not the only victims of connterfeit drugs. Pharmaceutical companies can lose income from connterfeit drng competition. Public confidence in the company can be nndermined, leading it to stop buying the prodnct and instead pnrchase a competitor s product even after the connterfeit has been destroyed. A fast identification of the connterfeit drng is in the interest of pharmacentical companies and the protection of patients rights. 

Waters, Robert A. The Best Defense True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves -with a Firearm. Nashville, Tenn. Cumberland House, 1998. A collection of vivid accounts of ordinary people who used guns to defend themselves against attackers. Waters explores both their thoughts and feelings and the response of police and society in general the book leans to strong gun rights advocacy. 

An organization that seeks to bring law enforcement officers and citizens together to fight crime. The organization seeks stricter penalties for criminals and promotes victim s rights it opposes gun control as not being effective crime control. 

This case history of the tank truck collapse has been reproduced with the permission of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Copyright 1993. It first appeared in Don t Become Another Victim of Vacuum, Chemical Engineering Progress, 1993. All rights reserved. [1]... 

In introducing the discussion of Holocaust victims, revisionist scholars time and again cite a publication in the Swiss paper Baseler Nachrichten of June 12, 1946, which postulated a maximum number of 1.5 million Jewish victims of National Socialism, as well as the fact that the International Red Cross never made any mention in its post-war Activity Reports of a systematic extermination of the Jews in gas chambers.15 Benz comments rightly that citing various undocumented newspaper sources and the IRC, which out of a lack of any comprehensive overview never compiled any statistics of its own about the numbers of victims, is a very dubious practice.16 While there have been several attempts since the war s end to determine the number of victims,17 any monograph commensurate with the importance of the topic was lacking until the early 1980s. It was not until 1983 that a book was... 

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