ICRC history : a primer 10 March 2025, Crosswise / Research Guides From its foundation in 1863 to its role in shaping modern international humanitarian law (IHL), ICRC’s neutral, impartial, and independent humanitarian action has ...
Books, Bandages & Breakthroughs Weapon-Wounded Care in the ICRC Library’s Heritage Collection 5 February 2025, LibraryCharlotte Mohr, ICRC Library The 1st ICRC Conference on Weapon-Wounded Care was held in Geneva on December 17 and 18, 2024. The ICRC Library was there – ...
ICRC action in Colombia (1969 – present) 25 November 2024, 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 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.
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 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, ...
