Preserving humanity in warfare. The role of archival resources in advancing international humanitarian law 18 July 2023, Archives / Article / CrosswiseCédric Cotter, Researcher Post amended since first publication Introduction International humanitarian law (IHL), also known as the law of war, is a set of rules that ...
ICRC action during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) 17 March 2023, Article / Crosswise / 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, Article / Crosswise / 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, ...
Diplomatic Conferences for the adoption of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols 4 November 2021, Library / Research Guide Click here to display the timeline in full screen. Treaties are traditionally negotiated or revised within diplomatic conferences of plenipotentiaries specifically convened for that ...
Iconographic Collections in the ICRC Archives 8 September 2021, Archives / ArticleGregory Nobs and Maude Graeppi The V CI sub-fonds, Iconographic Collections, contains approximately 330 images of historical interest related to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...
Jean de Preux 6 July 2021, Library / PortraitCharlotte Mohr, ICRC Library The adoption of the four 1949 Geneva Conventions marked the beginning of a new era for the ICRC in its role as promoter ...
Drafting history of the 2005 Additional Protocol 8 February 2021, Library / Research Guide The Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 was adopted on 8 December 2005. The adoption of the red crystal as ...
Renée-Marguerite Frick-Cramer 12 March 2020, Library / PortraitCamille Meyre, Library Renée-Marguerite Frick-Cramer was an important figure of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the early 20th century. A legal scholar and ...
Drafting history of the 1977 Additional Protocols 16 October 2019, Library / Research Guide The first two Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 were adopted on 8 June 1977. Numerous expert meetings were organized in ...
Drafting history of the 1949 Geneva Conventions 12 August 2017, Library / Research Guide The Geneva Conventions were adopted on August 12, 1949. Numerous expert meetings were organized in the lead-up to the adoption of the Conventions. ...
