Safeguarding humanitarian organizations from digital threats

October 13, 2022 9 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tilman Rodenhäuser, Balthasar Staehelin & Massimo Marelli

For decades, there has been consensus in the international community that in times of armed ...

Data-driven environmental decision-making and action in armed conflict

June 1, 2021 12 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / War, law and the environment Wim Zwijnenburg

A digital revolution through a myriad of earth observation data and open-source investigations is reshaping ...

COVID-19, conflict and sexual violence: reversing the burden of proof

June 19, 2020 5 mins read Analysis / COVID-19 and conflict / Gender and conflict / Humanitarian Action / Sexual Violence Sophie Sutrich

Sexual violence in armed conflict, while prohibited by international humanitarian law, remains a brutal reality. ...

Facilitating innovation, ensuring protection: the ICRC Biometrics Policy

October 18, 2019 13 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / New Technologies Ben Hayes & Massimo Marelli

The use of biometric identification systems by humanitarian organisations has been the subject of intense ...

Digital risks for populations in armed conflict: Five key gaps the humanitarian sector should address

June 12, 2019 8 mins read Cyber / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Technology in Humanitarian Action Delphine van Solinge

The Digital Revolution is affecting the lives of people around the world, from connected citizens ...

Know your enemy and know yourself: Attribution in the cyber domain

June 3, 2019 9 mins read Accountability / Cyber / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Vitaly Kamluk

‘It is said that if you know your enemy and know yourself, you will not ...

Potential human costs of cyber operations—Key ICRC takeaways from discussion with tech experts

May 29, 2019 11 mins read Conduct of Hostilities / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / The most read blog posts in 2019 Laurent Gisel & Lukasz Olejnik

Cyber attacks and their consequences are on top of the agenda around the world. Cyber ...

Structural disconnects between algorithmic decision-making and the law

April 25, 2019 8 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Conduct of Hostilities / Detention / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Editor’s note: There are disconnects between how algorithmic decision-making systems work and how law works, according to ...

The (im)possibility of meaningful human control for lethal autonomous weapon systems

August 29, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons Elke Schwarz

This week, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) is holding their third meeting at the UN Certain ...