International Committee of the Red Cross

International Committee of the Red Cross appears in roughly 13 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are up 30.0% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -2.26 — mildly negative.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian aid organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and promoting humanitarian norms. An international non-governmental organization, it has responsibility for promoting and ensuring respect for the four 1949 Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims: the Convention for the Amelioration of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field; the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea; The Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; and the Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

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Also covered as: ICRC, Red Cross · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
13
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+30.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-2.26
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

International Committee of the Red Cross mentions per day: 91 days, latest 13.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

International Committee of the Red Cross coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -2.26 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for International Committee of the Red Cross: 89 days, latest 273.00 on 2026-08-180.00250500May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).