Anchoring protection: Islamic law contributions to the development of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions

March 27, 2025 12 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / History / IHL / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Localisation / Related bodies of law / Religion Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Medha Damojipurapu

References to Islamic law made by the delegations of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria ...

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

July 25, 2024 7 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / IHL / Islamic Law / Localisation / Related bodies of law / Religion / Special Themes Ahmed Al-Dawoody

Around two thirds of ICRC operations are in Muslim countries where armed conflicts are in ...

What can the humanitarian community learn from the Colombian Truth Commission’s LGBTIQ-subchapter?

March 21, 2024 13 mins read Analysis / Gender / Gender and conflict / Health care / Humanitarian Action / Localisation / Sexual Violence / Social Inclusion / Social Protection Elias Dehnen

As part of the historic 2016 peace agreement, the “Commission for the Clarification of Truth, ...

Supporting social protection: five considerations for a principled humanitarian approach

June 8, 2023 10 mins read Access / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Localisation / Social Protection Colin Walch

As humanitarian organizations broaden their mindset from saving lives in emergencies to making a more ...

Going local, going safely

August 8, 2018 10 mins read Humanitarian Action / Localisation Adelicia Fairbanks

The role of local actors in supporting humanitarian efforts and the security of aid workers is not new. They have been at the ...

The International Committee of the Red Cross and the localization of aid: Striving toward meaningful complementarity

January 19, 2018 6 mins read Humanitarian Action / Localisation Jérémie Labbé

In 2015, the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (hereafter ‘the Movement’) sent a strong message of support for strengthening the role of ...