ICRC action in Colombia (1969 – present) 25 November 2024, Crosswise / ICRC action in... / LibraryClara Palmisano, Library “An extraordinary 72% of Colombians say the ICRC/Red Cross has played the biggest role in preventing mistreatment and abuses during the armed conflict.” ...
The 1949 Geneva Conventions : a primer 7 August 2024, Library / Research Guides The Geneva Conventions were adopted on 12 August 1949 and are now universally ratified. They form the core of international humanitarian law (IHL), ...
ICRC News Releases 12 April 2024, Library / Research Guides Access all the ICRC’s news releases, from the organization’s foundation to the present.
ICRC Reference Documents 13 December 2023, Library / Research Guides The ICRC reference documents are adopted by ICRC governing bodies (Assembly and Presidency), the ICRC Directorate, Departments and delegations and govern the way ...
ICRC action during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) 17 March 2023, Crosswise / ICRC action in... / LibraryClara Király, Library “It is with anguish that we watch [torture] resurface, more or less secretly, sometimes under the cover of exceptional laws aimed at repressing ...
ICRC action in the Korean War (1950-1953) 9 January 2023, Crosswise / ICRC action in... / LibraryClara Király, Library “In the desire of bringing to all victims of the war the strictly impartial aid of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ...
ICRC action during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (1994) 4 November 2022, Crosswise / ICRC action in... / LibraryClara Király, Library “Ten thousand people, it’s nothing in a conflict that killed almost a million in less than three months, it’s just a millimeter of ...
Red Cross and Red Crescent Statutory Meetings 5 July 2022, Library / Research Guides The documentation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent statutory meetings from 1863 to this day is now available online. Find the proceedings, ...
From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age: The Evolution of ICRC Legal Commentaries 8 June 2022, Crosswise / LibraryEllen Policinski and Charlotte Mohr The updated ICRC Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are heirs to a long tradition of legal commentaries published to ...
International humanitarian law treaties: essential documents 3 March 2022, Library / Research Guides International humanitarian law is a set of rules intended for humanitarian reasons to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects those who ...