We are the International Committee of the Red Cross Neutral, impartial, and independent. Discover our values and mission.

Our story is the story of humanitarian action, the Geneva Conventions and the birth of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Since 1863, the ICRC’s sole objective has been to ensure protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and strife.

We are the International Committee of the Red Cross Neutral, impartial, and independent. Discover our values and mission.

We are the International Committee of the Red Cross Neutral, impartial, and independent. Discover our values and mission.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a global humanitarian network of 80 million people that helps those facing disaster, conflict, and health and social challenges. The Movement consists of the ICRC, 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ...

In Kenya, we work with the Kenya Red Cross Society to help families separated by armed conflict, other situations of violence, arrest and detention, natural disasters or migration re-establish and/or maintain contact.

Weapons and disarmament, protected persons and other contemporary challenges for international humanitarian law. Teaching IHL, research, Advisory Service and other resources We support the teaching, learning and implementation of humanitarian law principles.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was established under the Geneva Conventions – the most widely ratified treaties in the world with 196 countries signatories. Neutral, independent, and impartial, our humanitarian mission is to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict and violence.

Archives 1914-1918: during the First World War, 10 million people, servicemen and civilians, were captured and sent to prisoner-of-war and Internment camps. The Belligerent Countries sent lists of prisoners of various nationalities to the ICRC. The ICRC set up alphabetical indexes. You can use them to search for a person.

We are the International Committee of the Red Cross Neutral, impartial, and independent. Discover our values and mission.