Jean Pictet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Pictet

Red Cross international lawyer

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1914

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 30-Mar-2002

Profession: teacher, lawyer, jurist, university teacher

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jean Simon Pictet (2 September 1914 – 30 March 2002) was a Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner working in international humanitarian law.
First as a secretary-jurist, and then as a senior executive and Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Pictet was instrumental in drafting the 1949 Geneva Conventions for the protection of victims of war, their Commentaries, and negotiating the 1977 Additional Protocols (Protocol I and Protocol II).
He also proposed the Red Cross Movement’s seven Fundamental Principles, which were adopted at Vienna in 1965: Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and Universality.
In 1989, an international humanitarian law competition for students was founded and named after him.