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Protected persons

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International humanitarian law (IHL) safeguards various categories of individuals and entities in times of armed conflict; the Geneva Conventions and their...
5 months ago

New Challenges and Old Problems for International Humanitarian Law

Lieber Institute West Point
International Humanitarian Law: Rules, Controversies, & Solutions to Warfare Issues (2ed) demonstrates the ongoing importance of studying IHL.
8 months ago

Conflict in Gaza: The Law of War and Irregular Warfare in Urban Terrain

Foreign Policy Research Institute
International Humanitarian Law, generally called the Law of Armed Conflict in the United States, applies to the current fighting in Gaza.
9 months ago

Will International Humanitarian Law Survive the Israel-Hamas Conflict?

Think Global Health
The crisis in Gaza has raised serious questions about the relevance of international law—even of its very survival...
8 months ago

Israel and the Occupied Territories - how international humanitarian law applies

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Read how the recent developments in armed conflict in Israel and the occupied territories are governed by IHL and other applicable frameworks.
11 months ago

International humanitarian law and Islamic law: a principled and inclusive dialogue

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
July 25, 2024 , Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / IHL / Islamic Law / Localisation / Related bodies...
4 months ago

War and what we make of the law

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
July 18, 2024 , Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / IHL / Special Themes / The...
4 months ago

War’s long legacy: the continued importance of the Geneva Conventions 75 years later

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
ICRC Legal Adviser Ellen Policinski examines the critique that IHL does not work or is irrelevant for today's armed conflicts.
4 months ago

Customary IHL

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Customary international humanitarian law (IHL) consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and exist independent of treaty law.
5 months ago

Codifying IHL before Lieber and Dunant: The 1820 treaty for the regularization of war

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The codification of modern principles of IHL may have occurred decades earlier than traditionally suggested, with the 1820 Treaty in Latin America.
8 months ago