Emergency Committee for Iraq — The Emergency Committee for Iraq was formed by Ramsey Clark, Roland Dumas, Ahmed Ben Bella and Tun Mahathir Mohammad all former senior politicians, to strive to encourage respect for the rule of law in Iraq.*The Emergency Committee for Iraq has… … Wikipedia
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists — The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was founded by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd in 1946. Its aims were to warn the public of the dangers associated with the development of nuclear weapons, promote the peaceful use of nuclear… … Wikipedia
Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools — The Women s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) was an organization formed by a group of socially prominent white women in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas during the Little Rock Crisis of 1958.The organization advocated for the… … Wikipedia
Jerusalem Emergency Committee — (Also see Siege of Jerusalem (1948)) The Jerusalem Emergency Committee (Vaadat Hamosadot Le Inyanai Youshalayim) was a seven man group set up in December 1947 by the Jewish Agency to take over the civil administration of Jewish Jerusalem as the… … Wikipedia
National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence — The National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence (NECAMV) was an umbrella organization of civil rights advocates, religious leaders, and labor activists created in 1946 in response to a spate of racially motivated attacks against African… … Wikipedia
Famine Emergency Committee — The Famine Emergency Committee was established by President Harry S. Truman in February 1946 in response to the food crisis that affected Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II. In addition to issuing conservation orders diverting… … Historical Dictionary of the Roosevelt–Truman Era
Delhi Emergency Committee — The Delhi Emergency Committee was a unit of civil servants, police officials and emergency volunteers assembled by the Government of India in the immediate aftermath of the independence and partition of India in 1947, to oversee the work of… … Wikipedia
Disasters Emergency Committee — The Disasters Emergency Committee is an umbrella group comprising fourteen UK charities. These charities are all associated with disaster related issues such as providing clean water, humanitarian aid and medical care. The DEC was created in 1963 … Wikipedia
Joint Emergency Committee — A Joint Emergency Committee, composed of members of the executive of the Jewish Agency and the Vaad Leumi (National Council) of the Jewish community in Palestine, was formed in the autumn of 1947, at which time the United Nations was… … Historical Dictionary of Israel
Joint Emergency Committee For European Jewish Affairs — committee of several major Jewish organizations dealing with refugees and the plight of Jews in Europe … English contemporary dictionary