Addressing landmine pollution: how the ‘polluter pays’ principle can help

April 17, 2025 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Emerging Voices / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Special Themes / Weapons Goran Sandić

Landmines, a persistent threat in post-conflict zones, pose severe risks to both human lives and ...

Environmental destruction in conflict: broadening accountability in war

March 20, 2025 8 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Emerging Voices / IHL / Law and Conflict / Related bodies of law Iryna Rekrut

International law recognizes the importance of environmental protection during armed conflict. Additional Protocol I of ...

AI, war and (in)humanity: the role of human emotions in military decision-making

February 20, 2025 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Weapons Joanna L D Wilson

Contemporary armed conflicts are increasingly complex and, through rapid technological development, increasingly remote. This calls ...

A call to make international humanitarian law a political priority

February 6, 2025 8 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian diplomacy / Humanitarian Principles / IHL Mirjana Spoljaric

As the devastating impacts of armed conflicts continue to mount, civilians are enduring unimaginable suffering. ...

War in cities: a solemn appeal from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

January 7, 2025 6 mins read Access / Accountability / Analysis / Armed Groups / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian diplomacy / Humanitarian Principles / IHL

Around the world, civilians in cities at war face immense risks. Urban warfare devastates lives ...

Trying to square the circle: the ICRC AI Policy

November 28, 2024 16 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Pierrick Devidal

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings significant opportunities, and risks, for principled humanitarian ...

What private businesses need to know about international humanitarian law

November 26, 2024 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Scope of application Matt Pollard, Fauve Kurnadi & Coline Beytout-Lamarque

Private businesses that operate in situations of armed conflict, do business with a government or ...

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

August 8, 2024 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 Ellen Policinski

Next week marks the 75th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Against a ...

War and what we make of the law

July 18, 2024 10 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / IHL / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 Cordula Droege

Preventing the catastrophic human cost of war is a central purpose of modern international law. ...

Forced to report: mandatory reporting of sexual violence in armed conflict

July 4, 2024 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Gender / Gender and conflict / Health Care / IHL / Sexual Violence / Social Protection / Special Themes Maria Carolina Aissa de Figueredo

Over the last decade, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its Red ...

Victim/survivor-centeredness, data protection and open-source collection in accountability: lessons from IIIM-Syria

January 9, 2024 9 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Rayyan Ghuma & Birhane Wossen Reta

The extent to which a victim/survivor-centered approach (VSCA) should be incorporated into data protection remains ...

People, principles, and processes: accountability in humanitarian action

August 29, 2023 15 mins read Accountability / Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles David Loquercio & Martin Schüepp

In an ever-evolving global landscape, the dynamics of humanitarian work are constantly challenged and shaped ...