The ICRC has unparalleled access to the world's prisons, owing partly to its pledge of confidentiality and neutrality. This is how our delegates work to improve the detainees' conditions.(Piper, Patrick)(9.1.1989)

This end of year message was recorded in 1970, but you would never know - it could have summarized 2014 just as well. ICRC President Marcel Naville reflects on war and human suffering.(23.12.1970)

At a 1995 UN conference held in Vienna the ICRC campaigned successfully for the banning of blinding laser weapons. Here, ICRC experts explain in graphic detail the effects of these arms.(Bandes Louise Doswald-Beck, Peter Herby)(1995)

This short ICRC Radio broadcast talks about a dozen concurrent operations being undertaken in 1992, from Somalia to Georgia, focusing in particular on the aftermath of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords in Cambodia.(ICRC Radio)(1992)

During the siege of Sarajevo, locals manage as they can to give and receive health care, procure medicine and cope with psychological consequences. International organizations try to help.(Patrick Piper, Jessica Barry)(13.12.1995)

An interesting, very dramatic audio piece introducing listeners to what the ICRC is and does, recorded back in 1982.(Nicolas Sommer)(07.10.1982)

Following the 1971 war, ICRC delegates facilitate and oversee the journey home of prisoners of war and interned civilians, and keep searching for the missing ones.(Robert Kroon, Nicolas Vecsey)(20.05.1974)

The 1000-day siege has left the citizens of Sarajevo lacking the most basic subsistence items. They find innovative ways to grow food and earn whatever little money they can. The ICRC helps.(01.11.1995)

The Red Cross emblem has been used countless times over the years to protect civilians and other non-combatants in the most difficult of circumstances. Here are a few testimonies.(01.10.1989)

The ICRC chief surgeon talks about operating under extremely difficult conditions of 18-hour shifts, no ambulance services to rely on, drastic hospital overcrowding and constant security and hygiene concerns. (Chris Giannou) (02.07.2003)