Uluslararası Kızılhaç Komitesi

Uluslararası Kızılhaç Komitesi (İngilizce: International Committee of the Red Cross; ICRC), Cenevre, İsviçre merkezli bir insani yardım kuruluşu. 1949 yılındaki Cenevre Sözleşmeleri ve 1977 tarihli Ek Protokoller (I. Protokol, II. Protokol) ve 2005 yılındaki III. Protokol ile ve taraf devletlerin imzası ile ICRC uluslararası ve iç çatışmalarda kurbanları korumak için yetki almıştır. Kurbanlar savaş yaralıları, esirler, mülteciler, siviller ve diğer muharebe dışı zarar görenler olarak sayılabilir. Kurum üç kez Nobel Barış Ödülü (1917, 1944, 1963) kazanmıştır.ICRC, Uluslararası Kızılhaç ve Kızılay Dernekleri Federasyonu ve dünya genelindeki 186 Kızılhaç ve Kızılay Dernekleri ile birlikte Uluslararası Kızılhaç ve Kızılay Hareketi'nin bir parçasıdır. Dünyanın en eski ve en tanınmış kuruluşlarından birisidir. Türkiye dahil 195 ülkenin üyesi bulunmasıyla birlikte uluslararası insancıl hukuk alanında önemli yeri bulunan yardım ve koruma faaliyetleri ile bağımsız ve tarafsız bir insani kuruluşlardan birisidir.David P. Forsythe: Humanitarian Politics: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1978, ISBN 0-8018-1983-0Hans Haug: Humanity for all: the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva in association with Paul Haupt Publishers, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-258-04719-7Georges Willemin, Roger Heacock: International Organization and the Evolution of World Society. Volume 2: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Boston 1984, ISBN 90-247-3064-3Pierre Boissier: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva 1985, ISBN 2-88044-012-2André Durand: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima. Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva 1984, ISBN 2-88044-009-2International Committee of the Red Cross: Handbook of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. 13th edition, ICRC, Geneva 1994, ISBN 2-88145-074-1John F. Hutchinson: Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. Westview Press, Boulder 1997, ISBN 0-8133-3367-9Caroline Moorehead: Dunant's dream: War, Switzerland and the history of the Red Cross. HarperCollins, London 1998, ISBN 0-00-255141-1 (Hardcover edition); HarperCollins, London 1999, ISBN 0-00-638883-3 (Paperback edition)François Bugnion: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the protection of war victims. ICRC & Macmillan (ref. 0503), Geneva 2003, ISBN 0-333-74771-2Angela Bennett: The Geneva Convention: The Hidden Origins of the Red Cross. Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire 2005, ISBN 0-7509-4147-2David P. Forsythe: The Humanitarians. The International Committee of the Red Cross. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2005,ISBN 0-521-61281-0Dominique-D. Junod : "The Imperiled Red Cross and the Palestine Eretz Yisrael Conflict: The Influence of Institutional Concerns on A Humanitarian Operation." 344 pages. Kegan Paul International."@ The Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva. ISBN 0-7103-0519-2, 1995.Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, Louis Maresca: The Role of the ICRC in the Development of International Humanitarian Law. In:International Negotiation. 4(3)/1999. Brill Academic Publishers, p. 503–527, ISSN 1382-340XNeville Wylie: The Sound of Silence: The History of the International Committee of the Red Cross as Past and Present. In:Diplomacy and Statecraft. 13(4)/2002. Routledge/ Taylor & Francis, p. 186–204, ISSN 0959-2296David P. Forsythe: "The International Committee of the Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law." In: Humanitäres Völkerrecht –Informationsschriften. The Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict. 2/2003, German Red Cross and Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, p. 64–77, ISSN 0937-5414François Bugnion: Towards a comprehensive Solution to the Question of the Emblem. Revised third edition. ICRC (ref. 0778), Geneva 2005International Committee of the Red Cross: "Discover the ICRC", ICRC, Geneva, 2007, 2nd edition, 53 pp.International Review of the Red Cross An unrivalled source of international research, analysis and debate on all aspects of humanitarian law, in armed conflict and other situations of collective violence.