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), ...
The Timeless Relevance of the Geneva Conventions 8 July 2024, Articles / CrosswiseCédric Cotter, Researcher This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, a cornerstone of IHL, and the 160th anniversary of the first 1864 ...
ICRC Annual Reports 27 June 2024, Library / Research Guides Access all the annual reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross, from the organization’s foundation to the present.
The weight of photos, the impact of words: a look back at the ICRC’s 10 detention missions in Algeria (1955-1962) 16 April 2024, Audiovisual / Photo On the night of 31 October 1954, Algeria – still a French territory – was hit by a series of coordinated attacks carried ...
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 Circulars 26 February 2024, Library / Research Guides Nowadays, only the recognitions of the National Societies and the Florence Nightingale Medal awardings are still subject of circulars. In the past, ...
Focus on the past – “new” photos unveiled on the ICRC’s audiovisual archives portal 20 February 2024, Audiovisual / Photo More than 110,000 images are currently accessible on the ICRC’s audiovisual archives portal. The photographic collection, built up over the years and constantly ...
The ICRC photographic archives: an action oriented collection 27 December 2023, Audiovisual / PhotoDamian Gonzalez The photographic archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) contain some 140,000 images in various formats documenting 160 years of ...
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 ...
A Quarter of a Century in the ICRC Film Archives 21 September 2023, Archives / Articles / Audiovisual / Film/videoMarina Meier, film archives It was the end of the last century. At a time when the World Wide Web had not yet reached the age of ...
