The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the most widely recognized NGOs operating today. In an increasingly politicized world, the ICRC has remained neutral. By refusing to take sides in conflicts, it has always stood for the victims.
 
Nevertheless the important role played by the ICRC in developing and monitoring international humanitarian law, especially in humanitarian assistance, is often overlooked in the midst of discussions on the controversial issue of neutrality.
 
This paper considers these debates about the viability of neutrality as a guiding principle in contemporary humanitarian assistance, concluding that although the policy of neutrality suffer too much challenge both from moral and reality, it is theonly possible way of preserving the necessary scope for humanitarian action. Also it is the very means by which the organization's delegates are granted access to war zones and detentions centers.
 
The body of the paper concludes four parts. The first two parts introduce the basic knowledge about the ICRC’s neutral statues and the relationship between the neutrality and the humanitarian assistance. The next two parts focus the challenge of the neutrality and how the ICRC faces to the neutrality.
 

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