It’s all relative: the humanitarian principles in historical and legal perspective

March 16, 2023 11 mins read Analysis / Back to basics: humanitarian principles in contemporary armed conflict / Humanitarian Action Marina Sharpe

Humanitarian actors broadly agree on the humanitarian principles’ meanings and their utility in responses to ...

Towards common understandings: the application of established IHL principles to cyber operations

March 7, 2023 9 mins read Analysis / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Kubo Mačák & Tilman Rodenhäuser

Cyber operations have become a reality of today’s armed conflicts, and their use is likely ...

Three lessons on the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to ensure accountability for violations of IHL

March 2, 2023 11 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Vincent Boulanin & Marta Bo

States have agreed on the principle that machines cannot be held accountable for violations of ...

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 ...

The right tool for the job: how does international law apply to cyber operations?

October 6, 2020 8 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Kubo Mačák, Tatiana Jančárková & Tomáš Minárik

The international community agrees that international law applies in cyberspace. But how does it apply? ...

Call by global leaders: work together now to stop cyberattacks on the healthcare sector

May 26, 2020 9 mins read COVID-19 and conflict / Health Care / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies

Today, the ICRC’s president, Peter Maurer, added his name to a list of more than ...

Hacking humanitarians: mapping the cyber environment and threat landscape

May 7, 2020 12 mins read Analysis / Human Costs of Cyber / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies Massimo Marelli & Adrian Perrig

As humanitarian organizations become more active in and reliant upon new technologies and the digital ...

Cyber attacks against hospitals and the COVID-19 pandemic: How strong are international law protections?

April 2, 2020 12 mins read Analysis / COVID-19 and conflict / Health Care / Human Costs of Cyber / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Kubo Mačák, Tilman Rodenhäuser & Laurent Gisel

Editor’s Note – The views of the authors expressed in this blog are those of ...

‘Act today, shape tomorrow’: the 33rd International Conference

December 10, 2019 7 mins read Counterterrorism / Generating Respect for IHL / Humanitarian Principles / Sexual Violence Helen Durham & Kosuke Onishi

Today we launch the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, a ...