The 30th International Conference grouping the National Societies, their International Federation, the ICRC and the 194 States party to the Geneva Conventions, will take place on 26 to 30 November 2007, in Geneva, at the International Conference Center (CICG).

The course offers a basic knowledge in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) with frequent references to its practical application, which will enable course participants to make use of the relevant legal texts and apply IHL in their work. In addition to IHL, relevant aspects of Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law will be covered.

The ICRC's annual Summer courses on international humanitarian law provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject through a combination of lectures and case studies.

The ICRC and the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research will be hosting an advanced training course on international humanitarian law (IHL) for mid-career professionals concerned with the role of IHL in the work of governments, international organisations and humanitarian non-governmental organisations operating in conflict zones.

ICRC and Swiss Army are hosting a military course on law of armed conflict. Senior officers from 60 countries around the world have been invited to a two-week workshop which seeks to strengthen efforts to integrate the law of armed conflict into military doctrine and operating procedures.

Many of those held in prisons around the world do not receive adequate medical care. To improve their access to quality health services, the ICRC has participated in a World Medical Association project to produce an internet-based course for doctors working in prisons.

From 18 to 21 April, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Faculties of Law, Arts and Medicine of the University of Geneva will hold a colloquium on the topic "Katyn and Switzerland: Forensic investigators and investigations in humanitarian crises" at the Louis-Jeantet Medical Foundation in Geneva.

A film by Luzia Schmid

Humanitarian action would decidedly not be the same without photography and its power to spark instant emotion, its snapshot of a reality that words cannot render.

Conceived by the Lyons Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation and adapted by the Museum, the exhibition gives an account of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge and examines its impact on contemporary Cambodian society. Through ethnographic objects and photographic records, it presents the historical and cultural context in which the events took place and reviews the circumstances which allowed the Khmer Rouge to take power in April 1975.