The International Committee of the Red Cross, formed 17 February 1863, is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded persons, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants.
