Even ‘cyber wars’ have limits. But what if they didn’t?

March 9, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tilman Rodenhäuser & Kubo Mačák

Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...

IHL in action: seven patterns of respect

November 19, 2020 16 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Influencing Behaviour in Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / Religion Juliane Garcia Ravel & Madalena Vasconcelos Rosa

While violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) are seemingly pervasive and remain a brutal reality ...

e-Briefing: The human cost of nuclear weapons

October 12, 2016 5 mins read Humanitarian Action / Online publications / Quick Links / Sexual Violence The editors

The ICRC’s latest e-briefing exposes the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. It is being ...

Nuclear weapons: Rising in defence of humanity

July 27, 2016 8 mins read Law and Conflict / Online publications Ellen Policinski & Vincent Bernard

Approximately 340,000 people died immediately and within the five years following the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and ...

Nuclear weapons: 20 years since the ICJ advisory opinion and still difficult to reconcile with international humanitarian law

July 8, 2016 8 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Weapons Louis G. Maresca

Everything we know about nuclear weapons, including the new information and analysis that has come to light in recent years, has only strengthened ...

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