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Read full overview Highlights ICRC in WW II: the Holocaust The ... Tigran S. Drambyan Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II The article goes back to the ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

Read full overview Highlights The battle of Solferino (24 June 1859) From the battle of Solferino to the eve of the First World ... The ICRC gained acceptance as a neutral humanitarian intermediary ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

The ICRC had to assert itself in an environment that was ... Read full overview Highlights Humanitarian action and cinema: ICRC films in the 1920s Founding of the International Federation of ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

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  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

August 1914: The world has been turned upside down by the insanity of war, and the ICRC is about to experience a real baptism of ... August 1914: The world has been turned upside down by the insanity ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

... (1904-1961): the Red Cross doctor who personified "the ... Targeting the city: Debates and silences about the aerial bombing of World War II The International Committee of the Red Cross and nuclear ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

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  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

At the end of the Second World War, the ICRC finds itself in an ambivalent position. ... View full overview Highlights ICRC Central Tracing Agency: half a century of restoring family links André Durand: ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

Since its creation in 1863, the ICRC's sole objective has been to ensure protection and assistance for victims of ... For years after the war, the ICRC dealt with requests for news about missing loved ones.

• 2010-10-29
• Overview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

How the ICRC began its work for civilians under enemy control in time of war. ... How the ICRC began its work for civilians under enemy control in time of war. ... Along with the lists of prisoners – and the ...

• 2003-08-11
• Article
• by: Sylvie Arsever

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

Paris (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will show 40 forgotten or previously unknown photographs culled ... 28-08-2009 News Release 09/173 Paris (ICRC) – The International ...

• 2009-08-28
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • France

Howard S. Levie 30-06-2000 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 838, by Howard S. Levie Howard S. Levie is ... He is also Colonel (ret.), Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army.

• 2000-06-30
• Article
• by: Howard S. Levie

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

... World War, not much has been written about the situation of those members of the Soviet armed forces who were held in captivity by ... Thus ICRC delegates visited the POW camps, and prisoners received ...

• 2000-09-30
• Article
• by: Tigran S. Drambyan

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

From Yalta to Dien Bien Phu recounts the work of the ICRC during the decade following the Second World War – the era of conflicts ... Using ICRC archives only recently opened up to the public, ...

• 2007-03-12
• Publication

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

1863 On 17 February 1863, a five-member committee, the future International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ... 1992 Debate about the emblems continued after the 1949 decision.

• 2007-01-14
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Emblem

Monika Ampferl 30-06-1999 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 834, by Monika Ampferl Abstract of the article " La ... Soon after the outbreak of hostilities the German Red Cross set up ...

• 1999-06-30
• Article
• by: Monika Ampferl

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

... International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) International Geneva Conference Establishment of national committees for the relief of ... 1986 Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red ...

• 2009-01-01
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

... in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. ... victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history.

• 1985-12-31
• Publication
• by: Pierre Boissier

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Founding

... in aid of millions of victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history. ... victims of war throughout the world have made the ICRC a key figure in history.

• 1984-12-31
• Publication
• by: André Durand

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • First World War

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • 1918-1939

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

This publication covers the years 1956-1965, a decade that was profoundly marked by heightening tensions in the Cold War. Among other events, the book examines the Hungarian uprising of October 1956, ...

• 2009-12-09
• Publication
• by: François Bugnion, Françoise Perret

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

... write about the people who shaped the Red Cross, with special emphasis on ICRC delegates in the field. ... Her account of what an ICRC representative (quoted by the author) recently called “the ...

• 1999-06-30
• Article
• by: Hans-Peter Gasser

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

The ICRC, established in 1863, works worldwide to provide ... History of the ICRC Since its creation in 1863, the ICRC's sole objective has been to ensure protection and assistance for victims ...

• 2009-02-19
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Contacts

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Structure

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Finances

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Working for the ICRC
      • Skills always in demand

ICRC/D. Baumann Mauricio Rosencof at the entrance of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Musuem in Geneva. ... Read also the interview of an ICRC delegate who visited Mauricio Rosencof when he was ...

• 2009-12-03
• Interview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Visiting detainees

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Uruguay

• People
  • Prisoners of war and detainees

Charles S. Maier Targeting the city: Debates and silences about ... Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History (Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies) at the Harvard University, Cambrigde, MA, ...

• 2005-09-30
• Article
• by: Charles S. Maier

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Conduct of hostilities
      • Air and naval warfare

... says Beat Schweizer, Deputy Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ... The member states, the ICRC and the ITS will take part in the working group.

• 2008-05-20
• News Release
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Second World War

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia

To meet new challenges and constantly growing needs, the ICRC became a 13-05-2010 Overview To meet new challenges and constantly ... ICRC / lb-d-00029-13 For the ICRC, the 1970s were marked by an ...

• 2010-05-13
• Overview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

... movement, the ICRC met with considerable difficulties in carrying ... He set about meeting both the French and DRV authorities – the latter, thanks to facilitation by diplomats of the United Kingdom ...

• 2005-06-22
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945