Towards a disability-inclusive IHL: ICRC views and recommendations July 6, 2023 10 mins read Access / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Disabilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Law and Conflict / Persons with disabilities Alexander Breitegger As a 2022 global report by the World Health Organization estimates, about 1.3 billion people ...
Loitering munitions: flagging an urgent need for legally binding rules for autonomy in weapon systems June 29, 2023 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / New Technologies / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Tom F.A. Watts Earlier this month, a viral story alleged that a US Air Force simulation took place ...
Armed conflict in Sudan: a recap of the basic IHL rules applicable in non-international armed conflicts June 15, 2023 15 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Julie Lefolle & Jelena Nikolic On 15 April 2023, the world watched the eruption of hostilities in Khartoum, the capital ...
Ethiopia: operational and legal response to armed conflict June 1, 2023 15 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Humanity in War podcast / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Romaric Ferraro & Elizabeth Rushing The ICRC has been present in Ethiopia since the 1977 Ethio-Somalia armed conflict. However, the ...
Towards common understandings: the application of established IHL principles to cyber operations March 7, 2023 9 mins read Analysis / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Kubo Mačák & Tilman Rodenhäuser Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...
Humanitarian neutrality in contemporary armed conflict: a conversation with Nils Melzer January 26, 2023 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian principles in contemporary armed conflict / Humanity in War podcast / Law and Conflict Nils Melzer & Elizabeth Rushing As with many humanitarian crises in the past, the international armed conflict between Russia and ...
Present and engaged: how the ICRC responds to armed conflict and violence in cities January 19, 2023 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Urban warfare Charles Deutscher & Chandni Dhingra How can humanitarian actors better respond to the devastating impact of urban warfare and urban violence? The higher humanitarian stakes in cities – ...
The translator is a traitor: translation in humanitarian response December 20, 2022 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action Rasha Mahmoud Abdel Fattah Translation has often been regarded as an act of ‘betrayal’, for the impossibility of transferring the exact same messages between different languages. Yet, ...
‘Nothing about us without us’: including civilians with disabilities in the aftermath November 15, 2022 10 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / IHL in the aftermath / Law and Conflict Victoria Riello As the smoke clears, a range of challenges reveal themselves in the wake of battles ...
Who gets what: how to get climate finance working for the people who need it most November 10, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action Namita Khatri Global attention is squarely focused on COP27 of the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) ...
Gender inequality, armed conflict and climate change: why militaries can and should map compounded risk September 29, 2022 15 mins read Analysis / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action / Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies Jody M. Prescott, Robin Lovell & Team Sandhurst In areas marked by gender inequality, women and girls are particularly at risk of the ...
‘Catching up with the curve’: the participation of women in disarmament diplomacy August 25, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Gender / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian diplomacy / Law and Conflict Véronique Christory Though it cannot be up to women alone to capture gendered impacts in treaty texts ...
