--- title: The Red Cross During War - Photo Essays - TIME description: A new book of photographs, The Red Cross and Frontline Photography Since 1860, celebrates the history of the world's most important humanitarian organization and records the recurring horrors of war, canonical: https://time.com/archive/7042058/the-red-cross-during-war/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2009-06-29T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T10:45:01.099Z article:section: World og:title: The Red Cross During War og:description: A new book of photographs, The Red Cross and Frontline Photography Since 1860, celebrates the history of the world's most important humanitarian organization and records the recurring horrors of war, og:url: https://time.com/archive/7042058/the-red-cross-during-war/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Red Cross During War twitter:description: A new book of photographs, The Red Cross and Frontline Photography Since 1860, celebrates the history of the world's most important humanitarian organization and records the recurring horrors of war, twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) # The Red Cross During War > Sponsored content. 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The Red Cross was the brainchild of Switzerland's Henri Dunant, who was also the originator of the Geneva Convention. The Red Cross badge has become known as an emblem of neutrality. ICRC ### Time for Rice  In Mak Moun, Thailand, the locals wait to receive rice distributed by the ICRC. Rice plays a vital part in Thai life. Thais sometimes use the cooking time of rice to describe the length of an event: The phrase chua mo-khao duat means "the period of time for a pot of rice to boil." Yannick Muller / ICRC ### Looking for Help  A group of internally displaced children in Ethiopia's Maychew camp in 1985 put on a brave face in the midst of the tragedy blighting their land. In the 1980s, a series of famines hit Ethiopia, affecting around eight million people and leaving one million dead. Dany Gignoux / ICRC ### Walking Wounded  The wounded are evacuated during El Salvador's civil war in 1987\. The war between the country's military-led government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition of five left-wing militias, lasted more than a decade. Daniel Cima / American Red Cross ### Sudanese Suffering  The Sudanese await food and seed distribution in Mogoth, 1987\. Four years previously, the civil war had been reignited following President Gaafar Nimeiry's decision to refuse to acknowledge the Addis Ababa Agreement, a series of compromises originally reached in 1972 that aimed to appease the leaders of the insurgency in southern Sudan after the first war had proved costly to the government in the north. Yannick Muller / ICRC ### Flight of Freedom  The ICRC flies out freed detainees during the Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict from Banja Luka to London in 1992. Pierre Gauthier / ICRC ### Homeward Bound  Guineans fleeing the violence in the Ivory Coast in 1993 arrive home safely. 1993 was a significant year in Guinea's history: The first elections since independence were held but the results were disputed. President Lansana Conté came under criticism for the country's economy and his heavy-handed approach to political opposition. He died late last year. Christian Farnsworth / ICRC ### Desperate Times  A truck brings water to some displaced people in Sudan's Gereida camp in 2006\. The following year, many parts of Sudan were devastated by flooding, prompting an immediate humanitarian response by the United Nations. President Barack Obama has since appointed Scott Gration as his Sudanese envoy. Boris Heger / ICRC ### Shocking Scenes  A wounded soldier is transported from the battlefield during the Spanish-American War of 1898\. Dunant's first-hand account of the sight of many thousands of dead and wounded after the battle of Solferino, Italy in 1859 led to the foundation of a committee to promote humanitarian ideals in war. ICRC ### Patient People  Nurses from the Alliance of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR in Azerbaijan shortly after the end of the First World War. ICRC ### Offering Relief  An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) relief ship in a Philadelphia harbor loading bay during the Second World War. ICRC ### The Road Ahead  An ICRC car on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho in 1950\. The photographer Jean Mohr has spent over 50 years documenting day-to-day life in Israel and the Palestinian territories for the ICRC. Jean Mohr / ICRC ### Lending An Ear  An ICRC delegate talks with a wounded Vietnamese prisoner who is about to be released during the French Indochina War in 1954\. On July 21 — little more than a month after this photograph was taken — the Geneva Conference made a provisional division of Vietnam, with control of the north given to the Viet Minh as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the south becoming the State of Vietnam. ICRC ### Flying the Flag  In 1965, Egyptian prisoners of war of the Yemen conflict were repatriated under ICRC auspices. J. de Palezieux / ICRC ### Cross to Bear  Nearly ten years on, in 1973 during the Arab-Israeli conflict, Egyptian soldiers repatriate a body under the protection of the Red Cross in the no man's land of the Port Fouad region. This dispute originally started out as a political conflict over territorial ambitions following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Max Vaterlaus / ICRC ### Short-Term Solution  An operating theater at an ICRC field hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, 1976\. It opened in February and closed less than a year later, in December. 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