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 ...

Mitigating the environmental impacts of explosive ordnance and land release

December 16, 2021 12 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Alex Frost

Environmental considerations are rightly gaining increased prominence and awareness. Environmental experts agree that unprecedented changes ...

If not us, who? How States – with the help of civil society – can implement the legal framework protecting the environment from armed conflict

June 10, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Religion / War, law and the environment Doug Weir & Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos

The International Law Commission’s long-running project to codify and progressively develop the legal framework protecting ...

Protecting the environment during armed conflict: IHL and Islamic law

June 3, 2021 12 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / History / Humanitarian Action / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Religion / War, law and the environment Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Sarah Gale

Protecting the environment during armed conflict is garnering renewed attention in light of the ongoing ...

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 ...

Fighting without a Planet B: how IHL protects the natural environment in armed conflict

May 25, 2021 17 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / War, law and the environment Vanessa Murphy & Helen Obregón Gieseken

Armed conflicts from Kuwait to Vietnam continue to remind us that the environment can be ...

Standing together: the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations

May 21, 2021 7 mins read Analysis / Climate change, conflict and humanitarian action Tessa Kelly, Catherine-Lune Grayson & Amir Khouzam

Today’s climate and environmental crises threaten the very survival of humanity. The Climate and Environment ...

“The contamination from nuclear test explosions is in every one of our bodies”

October 20, 2016 9 mins read Humanitarian Action / Review-related / Weapons Prof. Tilman Ruff, founding chair of ICAN

Selected passages from Professor Tilman Ruff’s speech, delivered at the Australian launch of The human cost of nuclear weapons, Melbourne, 10 October 2016. ...

e-Briefing: The human cost of nuclear weapons

October 12, 2016 5 mins read Humanitarian Action / Online publications / Quick Links / Sexual Violence The editors

The ICRC’s latest e-briefing exposes the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. It is being ...

Nuclear weapons: Rising in defence of humanity

July 27, 2016 8 mins read Law and Conflict / Online publications Ellen Policinski & Vincent Bernard

Approximately 340,000 people died immediately and within the five years following the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and ...