Meet ICRC legal adviser and delegate Jean de Preux (1920–2012). Our latest portrait retraces his 35 year-long career with the ICRC as a member of Jean Pictet’s legal team and ...

New ICRC Library research guide

In this Q&A, colleagues from the ICRC Legal Division share their experience working with the ICRC archives and library, highlighting their important contribution to the ICRC’s work as the guardian ...

This year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) celebrates the 100th anniversary of its first film. As you scroll through this timeline, you will see a century of ...

New ICRC Library research guide

A family finds its roots

Discover Prisonnier de guerre…, a fictional story about the harrowing day-to-day existence of prisoners of war held in camps grappling with a condition dubbed “barbed-wire disease” at the time.