Every day, an ICRC delegate somewhere in the world is faced with the reality of torture. Often he or she is the only redress or support a victim of torture has. Being “registered” by the ICRC ...

But not the ICRC—then, anyway. Unlike the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in scores of countries, the ICRC was apolitical, effective, efficient, politically neutral, and staffed ...

Before joining Human Rights Watch, Salah worked as protection team leader for western Libya at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), supervising a team of delegates and visiting ...

The nub of the matter is that ICRC delegates, once they’ve had access to the world’s most secretive places, cannot share their knowledge with anyone except the Geneva headquarters and the ...

In 1944, Maurice Rossel, an ICRC delegate, visited the Theresienstadt ghetto and reported no violations of human rights, despite the obvious manipulation by Nazi authorities to present a facade of ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. The International Committee of the Red Cross is working to refocus countries' attention on the rules laid down ...