International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; French: Comité International de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and promoting humanitarian norms.
Comité international de la Croix-Rouge | |
| Formation | 17 February 1863 |
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| Type | International NGO |
| Purpose | Protecting victims of conflicts and providing them with assistance |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46.2274°N 6.1373°E |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Field | Humanitarianism |
President | Mirjana Spoljaric Egger |
Vice President | Gilles Carbonnier |
Director-General | Robert Mardini |
Budget | CHF 1576.7 million (2016) 203.7 m for headquarters 1462.0 m for field operations |
Staff | 15,448 (average number of ICRC staff in 2016) |
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| Website | www |
State parties (signatories) to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded persons, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants.
The ICRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 191 National Societies. It is the oldest and most honoured organization within the movement and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three Nobel Peace Prizes (in 1917, 1944, and 1963).