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 ...
Preserving humanity in warfare. The role of archival resources in advancing international humanitarian law 18 July 2023, Archives / Articles / 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 ...
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 ...
2021 International Archives Week – The importance of archives to ICRC’s work 9 June 2021, Archives / Interviews / LibraryGiulia Carlini and Charlotte Mohr, ICRC Library To mark the 2021 International Archives Week, we wanted to celebrate the successful collaboration between the ICRC archives and library teams and other ...
The Central Tracing Agency 30 August 2020, Crosswise / Library / Research Guides Initially, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was founded in 1863 with the mission to improve the care and protection of ...
Renée-Marguerite Frick-Cramer 12 March 2020, Library / PortraitsCamille 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 Guides 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 Guides The Geneva Conventions were adopted on August 12, 1949. Numerous expert meetings were organized in the lead-up to the adoption of the Conventions. ...
