International Committee of the Red Cross

First principles

January 30, 2020

Charles G. Kels San Antonio, Texas, United States Ambulance Corps. Method of removing wounded from the field depicts the aftermath of battle in the American Civil War. The law of war is enshrined in treaties but steeped in blood. In 1859, a young Swiss businessman was traveling through Italy when a savage battle between […]

Humanitarian for all: The life of Henry Dunant

January 29, 2020

Stephen Kosnar Lima, Peru Henry Dunant 1855. ICRC on Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0. In his late thirties and bankrupt, Henry Dunant lived in abject poverty, on occasion being forced to eat bread crusts and sleep outdoors in Paris. It is a bitter slice of one man’s history, particularly given that only a few years […]