The aim of the Review is to promote reflection on humanitarian law, policy and action in armed conflict and other situations of collective armed violence.

The Review was first published in 1869 under the title Bulletin international Sociétés de secours aux militaires blessés and then Bulletin international des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge.

Links to issues with special themes from 1995 to the present

Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to the International Review of the Red Cross.

Call for papers: an international students' competition

The Paul Reuter Prize is generally awarded every three years for a major work in the sphere of international humanitarian law. The Prize will be awarded for the ninth time in spring 2009. Authors may send their applications no later than 15 December 2008.

This issue is a collection of articles taken out of three of the four issues (March, June and September) of the International Review of the Red Cross of the year 2007. The selection of articles of the December 2007 issue (conflict in Irak) will be published exceptionally in the "Sélection française 2008". The themes are the following: humanitarian actors, catastrophic events, torture.

This issue is a collection of articles drown from the four special issues of the year 2006, whose themes included: methods of warfare, private military companies, truth and reconciliation commissions, international criminal tribunals. The articles were selected based on their quality and originality.

This issue is targeted to our francophone readers. It is a collection of articles taken out of the four yearly issues of 2005 (dealing with the themes of detention, religion, means of warfare and communication). The selection of the articles was based on their quality and originality.