This DVD explores the impact on human tissue of bullets from rifles and handguns, as well as fragments from explosive weapons – an area of study known as wound ballistics. Designed for instructional purposes, the film has been made for a range of specialist audiences.

In Grozny, the streets of the market are full. But despite the rebuilding, it’s hard to find a decent flat or a proper job. Some people have started their own businesses thanks to the ICRC, such as Taiza who is making mattresses. But as Grozny rises from its ashes, other families still struggle to come to terms with the past, desperate to know what has happened to their missing relatives.

This animation brings to life the story of the creation of the Red Cross, Red Crescent Movement and its history to date. The comic strip was created by the world renowned artist Jean Giraud, alias Moebius.

This brochure presents the methods used by the ICRC to develop activities aimed at improving the protection of civilians in armed conflict or other situations of violence. It proposes a step-by-step approach in promoting a multidisciplinary response to protection needs. The first chapter focuses on what constitutes the preliminary analysis of protection problems affecting a given population. The second introduces a classification of protection activities that the ICRC can carry out on behalf of civilians. The third and last chapter cover issues of interest to institutions that deal with protection data.

How can we help people fleeing their homes following natural disaster or armed conflict? What type of shelter can the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement offer them? Also in this issue: the global food crisis; fighting in Chad; the cyclone in Myanmar; the earthquake in China and female genital mutilation in Cameroon.

The ICRC's work to promote economic security is intended to ensure that households and communities can cover their unavoidable expenditures and maintain or restore sustainable livelihoods.

The story of an idea, is an exciting new publication which brings to life the story of the birth of the Red Cross, Red Crescent Movement and its history to date. This comic strip was created by the world renowned artist Jean Giraud, alias Moebius.

The most widely prevalent type of armed conflict today is non-international in nature. It involves hostilities between government armed forces and organized non-State armed groups or is carried on among members of such groups themselves. A major challenge has always been how to make the rules of IHL known to the opposing sides and how to ensure they are applied.

In accordance with its mission statement, the ICRC is committed to promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. One way in which it does this is by making its resources as widely available, and inexpensive, as possible. However, because it is accountable to its donors, the ICRC has also to try to recover its production costs.