The 2006 Annual Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross describes field activities out of 80 delegations worldwide; its mandate to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and its work to promote respect for international humanitarian law.

Want to learn more about the ICRC and the work of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement? Interested by international humanitarian law? This catalogue highlights a range of the ICRC's key products, from books, brochures and posters, through to DVD-ROMs and films.

The ICRC in a nutshell. This is a detailed introduction to the ICRC's work and explains in everyday language what the ICRC is, how it came into being and what it does. The ICRC was founded nearly a century and a half ago to preserve a measure of humanity in the midst of war. Discover the ICRC explains this history, the values of the ICRC and gives a broad overview of the organization's major activities throughout the world in the fields of protection, assistance and prevention.

This leaflet provides a simple introduction to the ICRC. It summarizes who we are, what we do, how we work and the extent of our activities worldwide. It also includes contact details for further information, making it an ideal "visiting card" for ICRC work throughout the world.

The third in the ICRC's FORUM series of publications offers a wide-ranging look at the issue of accountability and its relevance for those involved in bringing humanitarian assistance to people in need, in times of war or violence.

A set of seven dramatic posters which captures in a direct and easily understandable way what the ICRC does, from helping detainees and reuniting families, to assisting conflict victims and promoting the rules of war.

ICRC staff members strive to provide protection and assistance to the victims of conflicts. This leaflet, one of a series of four, summarizes the requirements needed if you are interested in working for the ICRC in the field as a doctor (public health and detainees welfare), a surgeon or anaesthetist, a prosthetist-orthotist or a health delegate. Each leaflet provides an outline of the tasks to be undertaken.

ICRC staff members strive to provide protection and assistance to the victims of conflicts. This leaflet, one of a series of four, summarizes the requirements needed if you are interested in working for the ICRC in the field as an administrator, a database administrator, a secretary or an information-systems technician. Each leaflet provides an outline of the tasks to be undertaken.

ICRC staff members strive to provide protection and assistance to the victims of conflicts. This leaflet, one of a series of four, summarizes the requirements needed if you are interested in working for the ICRC in the field as a water and habitat engineer, a logistics specialist or an agronomist. Each leaflet provides an outline of the tasks to be undertaken.

ICRC staff members strive to provide protection and assistance to the victims of conflicts. This leaflet, one of a series of four, summarizes the requirements needed if you are interested in working for the ICRC in the field as a delegate, a communication delegate, an interpreter or translator. Each leaflet provides an outline of the tasks to be undertaken.

How the ICRC is constituted, what tasks are assigned to it and what principles guide its work – these are some of the questions which the author, François Bugnion, seeks to answer, examining the tasks and role of the ICRC both from a historical and from a legal point of view.

The ICRC established the International Prisoners of War Agency in Geneva on 21 August 1914. Its role was to restore contact between people separated by war – prisoners of war, civilian internees, and civilians in occupied territories – and it recruited hundreds of volunteers.

Its role as a neutral intermediary in armed conflicts and its activities in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. These two volumes, offering a wealth of information on the late nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century, are a must for all those who are interested in contemporary history.

Its role as a neutral intermediary in armed conflicts and its activities in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. These two volumes, offering a wealth of information on the late nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century, are a must for all those who are interested in contemporary history.

An account of Dr Junod's experiences between 1935 and 1945 on missions which took him first to Abyssinia and air raids with mustard gas bombs, then to Spain, Poland, Germany and lastly to Japan, where he was one of the first foreign doctors to observe the horrific effects of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Through Dr Junod's narrative, the reader discovers the difficult and sometimes dangerous, but always fascinating, work of an ICRC delegate.

From Yalta to Dien Bien Phu recounts the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the decade following the Second World War – the era of conflicts related to decolonization – in south-east Asia, Palestine, etc. – and to the Cold War, in Korea. Using ICRC archives only recently opened up to the public, this book looks at how the ICRC, weakened by the Second World War, responded to these new challenges and recovered.

After the relative stability of the Cold War period, the ICRC has been working since the late 1980s in an environment marked by major upheavals and conflicts whose main feature is total anarchy. The author looks at the response to this situation from various angles: those of operations (the Gulf War, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda), policy (the ICRC position on the "right to intervene" and on military operations undertaken on humanitarian grounds), and politics (in particular, the need for the international community to ensure greater respect for humanitarian law, and cooperation between organizations).

This book reflects the evolution of international humanitarian law and the role of visual images in humanitarian action. Based on photo reports from the time of the Crimean War up to the Second World War, the first part of the book traces the history of the Geneva Conventions. The second part draws on mostly unpublished photographs to illustrate wars since 1950 - in Korea, Vietnam, Biafra, the Middle East, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere.