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Keeping track of international humanitarian law scholarship and ICRC action since 1863

📚We have posted on our blog a new article presenting a selection of books on environmental issues in times of armed conflict. Enjoy the read! blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/in…

ICRC_library's tweet image. 📚We have posted on our blog a new article presenting a selection of books on environmental issues in times of armed conflict. Enjoy the read!
blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/in…

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/S18163…

ICRC_library's tweet image. 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/S18163…
ICRC_library's tweet image. 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/S18163…

| 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! 📚

ICRC_library's tweet image. | 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! 📚
ICRC_library's tweet image. | 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! 📚

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On 29 August 1945, ICRC delegate Fritz Bilfinger arrived in Hiroshima and was the first outsider to witness the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb. The next day, he sent a telegram to @ICRC_jp describing the horrific conditions and calling for immediate relief action; this…


Did you know the @ICRC's first president was a General? 🇨🇭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/search…

ICRC_library's tweet image. Did you know the @ICRC's first president was a General? 🇨🇭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/search…
ICRC_library's tweet image. Did you know the @ICRC's first president was a General? 🇨🇭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/search…

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/hi… [fr] blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/hi… [en]

ICRC_library's tweet image. 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/hi… [fr]
blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/hi… [en]

Since February 2025 the ICRC Public Archives have launched their new online catalogue, enabling researchers to browse inventories covering more than a hundred year of humanitarian history! #ArchivesAreAccessible Explore the Archives online catalogue: archives.icrc.org/search/simple

ICRC_library's tweet image. Since February 2025 the ICRC Public Archives have launched their new online catalogue, enabling researchers to browse inventories covering more than a hundred year of humanitarian history! #ArchivesAreAccessible
Explore the Archives online catalogue: archives.icrc.org/search/simple

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/search… #IAW2025

ICRC_library's tweet image. 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/search…
#IAW2025

It's #ArchivesWeek2025 and we're thrilled to announce new additions! Explore fascinating conference documents from the 1974-77 Diplomatic Conference, now available on our Cross-Files blog. Uncover history with us: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/di… #ArchivesAreAccessible

ICRC_library's tweet image. It's #ArchivesWeek2025 and we're thrilled to announce new additions! Explore fascinating conference documents from the 1974-77 Diplomatic Conference, now available on our Cross-Files blog. Uncover history with us: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/di… #ArchivesAreAccessible
ICRC_library's tweet image. It's #ArchivesWeek2025 and we're thrilled to announce new additions! Explore fascinating conference documents from the 1974-77 Diplomatic Conference, now available on our Cross-Files blog. Uncover history with us: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/di… #ArchivesAreAccessible

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of Nazi rule, the Arolsen Archives will publish file cards from Drancy camp that are part of @ICRC Archives on the #everynamecounts platform. Help build the world's largest digital memorial to the victims of Nazism: everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en


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/na…

ICRC_library's tweet image. 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/na…

📚How did you celebrate World Book Day last week? We posted a new article on @ICRC’s intellectual relief to POWs: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/in…

ICRC_library's tweet image. 📚How did you celebrate World Book Day last week?
We posted a new article on @ICRC’s intellectual relief to POWs: blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/in…

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