Inside the ICRC Library’s 2025-2027 Digitization Project : Selecting and Preparing Collections 1 June 2026, Library / Safeguarding ArchivesCharlotte Mohr This blogpost takes you behind the scenes of the ICRC library team’s work to select and prepare collections for digitization. Plus, a first ...
From paper files to digital access: the digital transformation of the ICRC Archives 21 January 2026, About / Archives / Audiovisual Archives / General Archives / Library / Safeguarding Archives / Tracing Archives On 17 January 1996, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) opened its general ...
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict: Books Selection 6 November 2025, LibraryMelissa Skander November 6th marks the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. For this occasion, we have ...
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), ...
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 <br> (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 ...
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 ...
Drafting history of the 2005 Additional Protocol 8 February 2021, Library / Research Guides The Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 was adopted on 8 December 2005. The adoption of the red crystal as ...
16 Days of Activism against Sexual and Gender-based Violence<br>Selected Readings 3 December 2020, LibraryCharlotte Mohr, Library November 25th marked the beginning of a 16 days campaign of activism against sexual and gender-based violence. We’ve selected for the occasion 16 ...
