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Protecting schools from military use: From Ancient Rome to today

Protecting schools from military use: From Ancient Rome to today

September 27, 2016 7 mins read Analysis / Education in Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Special Protections Bede Sheppard

The Safe Schools Declaration, opened for endorsement on 29 May 2015, outlines concrete steps that ...

An unwarranted human sacrifice in the Middle East

An unwarranted human sacrifice in the Middle East

September 26, 2016 12 mins read Counterterrorism / Law and Conflict / Religion / Stories Omar Mekky

Earlier this month Muslims in the Middle East and across the world celebrated Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice. Those holy days honor ...

Translating IHL into military operations

Translating IHL into military operations

September 15, 2016 6 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict The editors

Most of today’s armed conflicts are characterized by asymmetry between the parties. When faced with opponents who significantly differ in terms of military ...

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 ...

Launch of the ICRC handbook on IHL

Launch of the ICRC handbook on IHL

September 13, 2016 7 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict Dr Nils Melzer, Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy

Speech given by Dr Nils Melzer, author of International Humanitarian Law – a Comprehensive Introduction, at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law, Sanremo, ...

Generating respect for the law in Africa

Generating respect for the law in Africa

August 31, 2016 11 mins read Events and highlights / Law and Conflict Margherita D’Ascanio

The majority of armed conflicts being fought on the African continent are classified as non-international armed conflicts, and are characterized by the presence ...

Towards a humanitarian ban on nuclear weapons

Towards a humanitarian ban on nuclear weapons

August 4, 2016 10 mins read Humanitarian Action Elizabeth Minor

Over the past six years, a concerted effort by committed States, international organizations and civil society to reframe the international discourse on nuclear ...

Why educating students on humanitarian norms and values matters

Why educating students on humanitarian norms and values matters

July 29, 2016 10 mins read Events and highlights / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict Etienne Kuster & George Dvaladze

Apart from the renowned Jean-Pictet Competition, there are dozens of student competitions in international humanitarian ...

Nuclear weapons: Rising in defence of humanity

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 ...

Drawing the line between armed groups under IHL

Drawing the line between armed groups under IHL

July 22, 2016 9 mins read Analysis / Armed Groups / Law and Conflict / Religion Ellen Nohle

From Nigeria to Russia, the number of entities claiming affiliation with the Islamic State Group (ISG) is on the rise. In Colombia, concerns ...

Joint series: First thoughts from academia on the updated GCI Commentary

Joint series: First thoughts from academia on the updated GCI Commentary

July 22, 2016 2 mins read ICRC Commentaries / Law and Conflict Kevin Jon Heller

In the third installment of episode 1 in this multi-blog series on the updated Geneva Conventions Commentaries, Professor Kevin Jon Heller responds to ...

Nuclear weapons: 20 years since the ICJ advisory opinion and still difficult to reconcile with international humanitarian law

Nuclear weapons: 20 years since the ICJ advisory opinion and still difficult to reconcile with international humanitarian law

July 8, 2016 8 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Weapons Louis G. Maresca

Everything we know about nuclear weapons, including the new information and analysis that has come to light in recent years, has only strengthened ...