In the latest issue of the Int'l Review of the Red Cross on the Protection of the Dead, we recommend the book "Anthropology of violent death". 📖 Read in #openaccess: doi.org/10.1017/S181...
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| Behind the stacks |
The library team just started preparing its next digitization project. Highlights so far: tackling publications with three different reference codes and discovering unknown translations in Swahili or in Urdu … 50 boxes done, 250 more to go! 📚
22.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📃 Want to know more about the adoption and the evolution of our Fundamental Principles? Read our research guide :
08.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this first episode, the true story behind The Great Escape🎬 : Roger Bushell (born #OnThisDay in 1910) never gives up on his travel plans, chairs and💡 go missing, and Harry is ten meters too short. Plus, what #IHL says about retaliation against POWs after escape attempts.
30.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re kicking off a new series on the ICRC Library & Archives blog: stories of WWII Prisoners-of-War escapes told through our unique sources.
🪁 blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...
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Did you know the @icrc.org's first president was a General? Swiss General Dufour died exactly 150 years ago. The ICRC’s humanitarian mission was grounded in battlefield experience from the start.
🔗Today’s military perspectives in the Intl Review of the Red Cross: library.icrc.org/library/sear...
14.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was only in 1996 that ICRC archives opened its reading rooms to external researchers. What research tools were put at their disposal back then? How have these tools evolved throughout history?
#ArchivesAreAccessible
blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/... [fr]
blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/... [en]
14.06.2025 04:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Since February 2025 the ICRC Public Archives have launched their new online catalogue, enabling researchers to browse inventories covering more than a hundred years of humanitarian history! #ArchivesAreAccessible #IAW2025
Explore the Archives online catalogue: archives.icrc.org/search/simple
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It’s #InternationalArchivesWeek and this year’s theme is #ArchivesAreAccessible.
Perfect time to learn about the rules of access to the ICRC Archives, a balance between transparency and protection that reflects multiple stakes and challenges.
library.icrc.org/library/sear...
#IAW2025
11.06.2025 06:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Newly digitized from the ICRC Archives 👇
Contribute to making them searchable—for research and remembrance.
08.05.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#everynamecounts – Digitales Denkmal für NS-Opfer!
Die Nazis verfolgten und ermordeten Millionen Menschen. Hilf mit, an die Opfer zu erinnern. Eine Crowdsourcing-Initiative der Arolsen Archives.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of Nazi rule, @arolsenarchives.bsky.social will publish file cards from Drancy camp that are part of ICRC Archives on platform #everynamecounts.
Help build the world's largest digital memorial to the victims of Nazism: everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en
08.05.2025 12:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Since 1863, our library collections tell the history of the #RedCross #RedCrescent Movement.
On World #RedCrossDay and #RedCrescentDay, explore our collections of publications from National Societies around the 🌎 : blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...
08.05.2025 06:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
¡Hoy es el Día del Idioma Español!
Para celebrarlo, lanzamos la versión en español de nuestro blog.
Explora nuestros artículos traducidos: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...
23.04.2025 07:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UNESCO’s initiative safeguards our shared history from destruction, decay, and amnesia. Recognized across borders, cultures, and time, #IHL treaties are part of humanity's collective heritage – as historical artefacts and, above all, as living instruments to protect people in armed conflict.
17.04.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📜The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are entering the @unesco.org #MemoryOfTheWorld International Register. Thank you to the Swiss Federal Archives for preserving the original signed treaties.
All must preserve – and uphold – their spirit.
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Anny Pfirter (center), in a 1961 photograph (A ICRC, V-P-AU-E-00012)
We mark today the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
An @icrc.org nurse, Anny Pfirter, cared for the survivors.
Read about the return of hope, after dehumanization and atrocities, in her own words : library.icrc.org/library/sear...
15.04.2025 14:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔎 We’ve made it easier to do a full-text search across all ICRC activity reports, from 1863 to present day.
From our library catalogue’s extended search menu (library.icrc.org/library/sear...), follow the example in the screenshot below 👇
Happy searching!
Write library@icrc.org for support
04.04.2025 08:31 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Our latest research guide 'ICRC History : A Primer' offers both an overview of key moments in @icrc.org history and tons of links to related public sources & resources to support your own research 🔍
Find it on our blog Cross-files at blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/... (also available in French)
18.03.2025 10:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Part of our library’s mission is to gather all translations of @icrc.org publications. Today’s newbies: Introduction to International Humanitarian Law in Armenian & the ICRC’s 2024 IHL Challenges Report in French.
Find all 📚 at library.icrc.org/library/sear... and library.icrc.org/library/sear...
06.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ICRC Library
Founded in 1863, the ICRC’s library, along with its archives, serves as a key documentary reference on the ICRC and international humanitarian law.
✈️ Fuel for take-off:
- Find our webpage at www.icrc.org/en/library
- Find our library catalogue at library.icrc.org/library/
- Find our research guides at blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/...
- Find our #IHL bibliography at www.icrc.org/en/document/...
27.02.2025 08:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re packing the books and flying to new skies 🦋
Follow us for useful resources to support your research in humanitarian law, action and history – many available online (for the rest, write library@icrc.org)
Plus ‘behind the scenes’, treasure finds, and snapshots of @icrc.org history.
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We build support for the ICRC's global operations and further understanding of international humanitarian law (IHL).
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub supports the RCRC Movement by providing mental health, psychosocial support, and capacity-building initiatives.
Website: https://mhpsshub.org/
Welcoming over a million visitors annually, the EPFL Library sits at the heart of the Rolex Learning Center, empowering and supporting the EPFL community. Through rich collections and tailored services, it fosters excellence in teaching and research.
APE is the largest online portal of archival heritage related to Europe - dive deep into 10000s of archival descriptions and connect with archivists and researchers all over the world through our search engine - www.archivesportaleurope.net
The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is a research centre of the Faculty of Law and the scholarly home of international law at the University of Cambridge, UK. www.lcil.cam.ac.uk
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Joint Centre of @gvagrad.bsky.social and the University of Geneva Faculty of Law. https://www.geneva-academy.ch/
A forum for informed discussion and debate about international law and international relations, with contributions from leading international law scholars.
http://opiniojuris.org
We are the international center on Nazi persecution with the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors. #everynamecounts
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
A partnership with 200 publishers and 5 UN agencies providing free or affordable access to research content in low & middle-income countries. Visit www.research4life.org for more info.
Humanitarian law & policy • Deputy Head of Legal Division & Head of Support @ICRC.org • #IHL and #ICRC actions
Kiwi, former-infantryman, practitioner of Tsundoku, polemologist & advisor at the ICRC looking at new technology and its use in armed conflict.
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Library - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies https://bsky.app/profile/gvagrad.bsky.social - News and updates from our blog. https://linktr.ee/gvagrad_library
Geneva Graduate Institute International Law Department Account.
International law, humanitarian & human rights law, economic law, environment, and more. RT not endorsement.
International lawyer & writer working on international humanitarian law (#IHL), cyber operations, NSAGs and detention. Author of #OrganizingRebellion
ICRC Legal Adviser with the Commentaries update project. IHL nerd. Opinions are mine, get your own. She/her. Watch me try to explain what I do here: https://www.tiktok.com/@icrc/video/7029005164841323782
Researcher @ICRC Archives & Library, PhD, History of ICRC, First World War, Humanitarianism. Personal opinions.
Law & Policy Outreach Advisor @icrc.org | Views Mine/re-post ≠endorsing
Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross (@ICRC.org). Updating Geneva Convention commentaries & thematic legal adviser on food security, private military & security companies, cultural property, journalists, torture & ill-treatment.
