What private businesses need to know about international humanitarian law

November 26, 2024 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Scope of application Matt Pollard, Fauve Kurnadi & Coline Beytout-Lamarque

Private businesses that operate in situations of armed conflict, do business with a government or ...

The Geneva Conventions at 75: what was the role of the International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in securing protection for civilians?

October 22, 2024 15 mins read Analysis / Generating Respect for IHL / History / IHL / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 Ellen Policinski

The 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent will take place 28-31 ...

IHL and the challenge of maintaining food security in armed conflict

October 17, 2024 11 mins read Access / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Special Protections Matt Pollard

Food insecurity remains a critical issue in modern armed conflicts, exacerbated by the mutually reinforcing ...

Protecting essential service personnel is a vital part of humanitarian action

October 10, 2024 9 mins read Access / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / IHL / Special Protections Marnie Lloydd, Peter Herby, Caroline Baudot & Tobias Ehret

Water and wastewater pipelines, electricity lines and telecommunication installations permeate contemporary urban landscapes and form ...

Championing IHL compliance in contemporary armed conflict: the 2024 ICRC Challenges Report

October 9, 2024 9 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict Cordula Droege

Since 2003, the ICRC has submitted a report on ‘International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges ...

Procedures for internment review under the Fourth Geneva Convention: reflections from New Zealand

September 19, 2024 15 mins read Analysis / Detention / GCIV and the internment of protected persons / IHL / Special Protections / Special Themes Tim Wood

The Fourth Geneva Convention was the first humanitarian law convention dedicated to protections for civilians ...

Conceive, standardize, integrate: the past, present, and future of adopting distinctive emblems and signs under IHL

September 12, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Communications / Generating Respect for IHL / Health Care / History / IHL / New Technologies / Special Protections / Technology in Humanitarian Action Samit D’Cunha

When the very first Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864, it was the culmination of ...

War’s long legacy: the continued importance of the Geneva Conventions 75 years later

August 8, 2024 14 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / Law and Conflict / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 Ellen Policinski

Next week marks the 75th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. Against a ...

War and what we make of the law

July 18, 2024 10 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / IHL / Special Themes / The Geneva Conventions at 75 Cordula Droege

Preventing the catastrophic human cost of war is a central purpose of modern international law. ...

Trapped in conflict: urban sieges and encirclement

June 20, 2024 23 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / Special Themes / Topics / Urban warfare Abby Zeith

Based on the ICRC’s firsthand observations in and around cities in conflict across the globe, ...

Reinventing the wheel? Three lessons that the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements

June 13, 2024 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Laura Bruun

For more than a decade, states have met at the UN in Geneva to discuss ...

Internment pursuant to the Fourth Geneva Convention during an international armed conflict: practice and reflections from Norway

June 6, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Detention / GCIV and the internment of protected persons / IHL / Special Protections / Special Themes Camilla G. Cooper

The Fourth Geneva Convention was the first humanitarian law convention dedicated to protections for civilians ...