The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an independent private humanitarian institution acting as a neutral intermediary in armed conflicts. Basing its actions on the International Humanitarian Law whose initiator it is, the ICRC provides protection and assistance to the victims, no matter whether they are prisoners-of-war or interned civilians, wounded or sick, displaced persons or population in occupied territories. The ICRC can offer its services to the victims of internal disturbances and tension, which are not provided for by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. ICRC delegates visit and improve the situation of political detainees. In order to successfully fulfill its tasks, the ICRC has a considerable administrative and operative structure in its Headquarters in Geneva. Delegates of ICRC work in the hottest and most problematic regions of the world.
There is a Central Tracing Agency at the ICRC whose activities include receiving, registering, conveying information to the relatives of victims of armed conflicts; searching for missing persons; reuniting-separated families; issuing of different documents and references, e.g. certificates of captivity, etc.
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