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The work of the ICRC is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols, its Statutes – and those of the ... The ICRC is an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian ...

• 2010-03-23
• Section

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Places
  • Europe and Central Asia
    • Switzerland

The work of the ICRC is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949, ... The legal bases of any action undertaken by the ICRC are as follows: The four Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I confer ...

• 2010-10-29
• Overview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

The ICRC, established in 1863, works worldwide to provide ... Read full overview Selected Topics All Who we are The mandate and mission of the ICRC The work of the ICRC is based on the Geneva ...

• 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

... follow-up dialogue, a section of ICRC web site and an annual edition of the ICRC's FORUM publication . ... How should the mandates of the increasing number of humanitarian players be redefined in the ...

• 2002-05-14
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

Confidentiality is an essential tool, enabling the ICRC to help people ... For example, we might write a news release about the overall rights of detainees or the humanitarian impact of insecurity and ...

• 2010-09-20
• Interview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Visiting detainees

• People
  • Prisoners of war and detainees

... and internal violence is at the heart of the ICRC's mandate and a fundamental part of its identity. ... However, we have no doubt about the importance of the ICRC's neutral and independent humanitarian ...

• 2008-07-07
• Interview

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

Full text in PDF format (254kb) About Acrobat PDF files Volume 89 Number 865 March 2007 The ICRC: a unique humanitarian ... its limited mandate, and tied as it is to states and the state system of ...

• 2007-03-31
• Article
• by: David P. Forsythe

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

Eighteen months ago, the ICRC launched its Avenir project, ... By mandate of the Assembly, which is the ICRC’s supreme decision-making body, a steering committee was set up to oversee the first ...

• 1998-03-31
• Article

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

As a result, in almost every country where the ICRC is working, conflict situations have ... countries and its delegates were able to visit over 190,000 persons held in about 1,300 places of detention.

• 1999-03-31
• Article
• by: Jean-Daniel Tauxe

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • History
      • Since 1945

... and a context for dealing with demands for cooperation with authorities who seek information about ICRC activities. ... of international mandates conferred upon it by the treaties of international ...

• 2004-02-28
• Article
• by: Gabor Rona

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • International criminal jurisdiction
      • International Criminal Court

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • International criminal jurisdiction
      • Ad hoc tribunals

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively ... 19-06-2008 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an ...

• 2008-06-19
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

How about the ICRC? ... Thus, in line with its international legal mandate, the ICRC's privileges and immunities are widely recognized by governments, ... This means that the ICRC is not treated as a ...

• 2004-02-17
• Miscellaneous
• by: Gabor Rona

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

1.5 The internal challenge for the ICRC Last but not least, the spotlight ... 3.1.2 The ICRC is the only organization which is expressly entrusted with a specific mandate by international humanitarian law .

• 1997-12-12
• Miscellaneous
• Archived page

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

Jean-Daniel Tauxe 31-03-1999 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 833, by Jean-Daniel Tauxe Abstract of the article ... Indeed, they are marked by a decline in State monopoly on the use ...

• 1999-03-31
• Article
• by: Jean-Daniel Tauxe

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

... of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, ... Protocols additional thereto, the mandate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) applies in both international and ...

• 1995-04-30
• Article

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Refugees and displaced persons

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

The mandate of the other components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (in short, ... 3. The ICRC's mandate Founded in 1863, the ICRC has been mandated by the community of States, ...

• 1995-04-30
• Article
• by: Jean-Philippe Lavoyer

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • Protected persons
      • Refugees and displaced persons

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

Address by Dr Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, Brussels, ... The ICRC greatly values this opportunity. ... The ICRC is interested in pursuing and, if possible, ...

• 2005-04-13
• Statement

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication

Policy adopted by the Council of the Assembly on 9 June 2011 ... These feelings and what they show about the unacceptable nature of those practices to a large extent form the basis of the ...

• 2011-06-30
• Article

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Visiting detainees

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Health
      • Health in prisons
        • Torture

• Topic
  • International humanitarian law
    • IHL and other legal regimes
      • IHL and human rights

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

An organization with a mandate A key characteristic of the ICRC 8 is that it was given a mandate (or rather mandates) by the ... In other situations of violence, the ICRC derives its mandate from the ...

• 2009-09-04
• Publication

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

Extract from an article published in the International Review of the Red Cross, May-June 1993, No 294 01-05-1993 Extract from an ... not depend on the type of situation prevailing in the country ...

• 1993-05-01
• Miscellaneous

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

In its preambular paragraphs, the resolution first refers to ... that of any other NGO, the ICRC's mandate, above all under the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocol I ...

• 1991-02-28
• Article
• by: Christian Koenig

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication
      • United Nations

This is what being a neutral intermediary is all about: placing oneself voluntarily in the midst of a confrontation and lending a ... also a clear mandate The variety of names used to designate the ...

• 1998-06-30
• Article
• by: Michel Minnig

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Peru

Thomas Jenatsch 30-06-1998 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 323, by Thomas Jenatsch Thomas Jenatsch ... What are the possibilities offered by its mandate and the limits to what it can do?

• 1998-06-30
• Article
• by: Thomas Jenatsch

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Places
  • The Americas
    • Colombia

This was the subject debated by doctors, patients and ICRC managers in Zinal, Switzerland, ... He needs to talk about his illness or about his distress at the destruction of his environment by the conflict.

• 2008-03-20
• Feature
• by: Marion Harroff-Tavel

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Working for the ICRC

• Topic
  • ICRC activities

1. The ICRC is resolutely positive about this debate because it is no luxury at all to work seriously on the efficiency of the UN- ... specific mandate and modes of action and that it has to assume ...

• 2005-09-08
• Statement

• Topic
  • About the ICRC
    • Mandate and mission

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Building respect for IHL
      • Dialogue with weapon bearers

• Topic
  • ICRC activities
    • Humanitarian diplomacy and communication
      • United Nations

• People
  • Refugees and displaced persons

• People
  • Weapon bearers