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History

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

13 August 2018, Library / Portrait
Charlotte Mohr, Library

The ICRC Library’s collections retrace over 150 years of the history of the International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Its rare ...

Prosecuting War Crimes after the Second World War: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials

Prosecuting War Crimes after the Second World War: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials

22 May 2018, Library

Predecessors of the International Criminal Court, the Nuremberg (November 1945 – October 1946) and Tokyo (May 1946 – November 1948) war crime trials ...

Drafting history of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

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. ...