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Detention / Detainees

This theme explores legal, humanitarian, and operational aspects of detention in armed conflicts, focusing on the treatment of detainees, compliance with international humanitarian law, and safeguarding human dignity in detention settings.

Detention and armed conflicts: Exploring realities and remedies

Detention and armed conflicts: Exploring realities and remedies

September 10, 2018 9 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Sexual Violence Helen Durham

The honour of delivering one of the opening speeches at the Sanremo Roundtable on the ...

Essay Competition: Sanremo New Voices in IHL

Essay Competition: Sanremo New Voices in IHL

April 16, 2018 3 mins read Call for papers / Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2018

On the occasion of the 41st Round Table on Current Issues of International Humanitarian Law ...

The principle of non-refoulement in the migration context: 5 key points

The principle of non-refoulement in the migration context: 5 key points

March 30, 2018 10 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Migration / The most read blog posts in 2018 / Torture Tilman Rodenhäuser

The current discussions on the Global Compact for Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees ...

The 1918 Bern Agreements: repatriating prisoners in a total war

The 1918 Bern Agreements: repatriating prisoners in a total war

March 29, 2018 10 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action Cédric Cotter

100 years ago, under the auspices of the ICRC and the Swiss Confederation, the French and German governments signed the Bern Agreements. A ...

Just out! New Review issue on human cost of detention

Just out! New Review issue on human cost of detention

February 12, 2018 9 mins read Detention / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Ellen Policinski & Vincent Bernard

The latest edition of International Review of the Red Cross has been released—Detention: Addressing the human cost. This edition of the International Review ...

Introducing the second multi-blog series on the updated Geneva Conventions Commentaries

Introducing the second multi-blog series on the updated Geneva Conventions Commentaries

February 21, 2017 2 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / ICRC Commentaries / Law and Conflict The editors

In order to bring to light the significance of the updated Commentary on the First Geneva ...

Torture: Primer on a wrong and illegal practice

Torture: Primer on a wrong and illegal practice

January 27, 2017 5 mins read Law and Conflict / Primers / Torture Ellen Policinski

The ICRC’s position on torture is clear: torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, degrading or humiliating treatment are banned under international law. ...

Global counter-terrorism must not overlook the rules of war

Global counter-terrorism must not overlook the rules of war

December 13, 2016 10 mins read Counterterrorism / Religion Stéphane Ojeda

Branding an armed group as “terrorist” cannot alone cancel the applicability of international humanitarian law (IHL). The vast majority of contemporary armed conflicts ...

Terrorism, counter-terrorism and IHL: Primer on a recurring conversation

Terrorism, counter-terrorism and IHL: Primer on a recurring conversation

November 2, 2016 5 mins read Counterterrorism Ellen Policinski

Terrorism is not limited to any one part of the world. It can be seen everywhere, and is often linked to armed conflict. ...

Modern conflict: Address by ICRC’s vice-president to SWIRMO 2016

Modern conflict: Address by ICRC’s vice-president to SWIRMO 2016

October 27, 2016 13 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict Mme Christine Beerli, vice-president of the ICRC

Address by Mme Christine Beerli, vice-president of the ICRC, at the opening of the Senior Workshop on International Rules Governing Military Operations (SWIRMO), ...

The establishment of courts by armed groups: what is the legal basis?

The establishment of courts by armed groups: what is the legal basis?

October 11, 2016 10 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Ezequiel Heffes

While the law of armed conflict is understood as granting armed groups the possibility to install judicial mechanisms in order to pass judgments ...

Clarifying the fate of missing persons

Clarifying the fate of missing persons

September 15, 2016 14 mins read Events and highlights / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Raphaël Dallaire Ferland

How does looking at prisons’ laundry receipts or funeral documents help finding those who have ...