Despite the appeals of the international community to peoples all over the world to adhere to civilized forms of settling controversial issues, the armed conflicts remain a spirit of our time and bring humans sufferings and misery. Awareness of this poor reality was a powerful spur to create the international human rights institutions and the different humanitarian organizations.
Just so in 1863 was established the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)-an independent organization whose mandate to provide protection of life and dignity for victims of the armed conflicts and other situations of violence was enshrined in the four Geneva Conventions.
Regional delegations of the ICRC are working in almost all countries of the world; representatives of the International Red Cross have been working in South Ossetia since the beginning of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict- 1992, implementing humanitarian programs, aimed at providing assistance to the affected areas, are making efforts in searching for missing persons as a result of the military actions, are participating in the program "Mercy" and organizing other humanitarian actions in support of the victims.
April 23-30 the ICRC office in Tskhinval will organize a photo exhibition by the Mission delegate Marko Kokich, who visited many regions of conflict around the world. In April 2011, making a working trip to the Northern Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan), Marco Kokich arrived in South Ossetia. He visited the villages of the country, talked to people injured in military conflicts. The result of this trip was a great series of photographs taken in South Ossetia. The main feature and the main purpose of photography is illustration. Because of this, a photo can help to capture and keep in the history the striking illustration of what has happened. The opening of the mobile exhibition by Marco Kokich "People and Fate" will be held April 23, 2012 at 14.00 in the National Library named after Anacrusis. The ICRC will conduct a course of lectures on the basics of the international humanitarian law and ICRC activities with demonstration of the film "Panorama 08". Interesting meetings and conversations will be held between the delegates of the International Humanitarian Mission of Public Relations and the students. On Saturday and Sunday will be organized reception of visitors of the exhibition "People and Fate" and on Monday, April 30, will be held its closing ceremony.
