The 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (2019)

Abstract

Since its first edition held in 1876, the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IC) represents a unique event in the constantly changing humanitarian landscape. All the most relevant and urgent humanitarian challenges of the last 144 years have been addressed by its miscellaneous (but equally standing) participants, namely the states parties to the Geneva Conventions (currently numbering 196), the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (currently numbering 192), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).1 In modern times, the usually quadrennial event is also regularly attended by numerous observer organisations – with no right to vote – but interested in the debated topics or with working relations with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement).2