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This section contains an online selection of the ICRC's photo library and includes the possibility of downloading high-resolution images. The ICRC photo library collection contains more than 115'000 photos available in digital format covering ICRC activities in conflicts throughout the world from the 1850s to the present day.

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  • Bangladesh: Red Crescent with the victims of Savar tragedy

    On 24 April 2013, an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, an industrial suburb located on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka. More than 3,000 people were working in factories and shops housed inside the building when it caved in.

    • 21-05-2013
    • 8 Photos

  • The conflict in Syria has wreaked considerable destruction. This is the small town of Azaz, to the north-west of Aleppo, near the border with Turkey, on 23 April 2013. Syria: Cities in ruins, civilians in danger

    PHOTOS - These photos taken in April 2013 in the city of Aleppo and the town of Azaz show the scale of the disaster unfolding in Syria. Civilians who have not fled face a daily struggle for survival in the midst of the fighting and the rubble.

    • 13-05-2013
    • 10 Photos

  • 150 years of humanitarian action with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

    In 1863, the same year the Red Cross was created, the first Red Cross Society – the Society for the Relief of the Wounded – was founded in the State of Württemberg. Now, 150 years later, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has 188 National Societies in what solidarity and cooperation have made the largest humanitarian network in the world. Here is a series of photos illustrating the cooperation between the ICRC and the National Societies down through their history.

    • 08-05-2013
    • 16 Photos

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