International Humanitarian Law (IHL)armed conflictschild soldierschild exploitationAfrican statesThe intensity at which children are turned into soldiers for prosecuting Africa's unending wars has become unbearable. the recruitment of child soldiers in war-Ojo, Olusola...
The ICRC Legal Division fosters the respect for and promotion of international humanitarian law (IHL) and other relevant bodies of law. This is, in particular, achieved by delivering legal expertise necessary to the ICRC’s actions in its dialogue with parties to armed conflicts and by assisting...
It used to be known as the Law of War, as opposed to Humanitarian Law, but the adoption of new treaties in the 70's blurred the distinction and now the generally accepted term is International Humanitarian Law, also referred to as IHL. IHLBooks.com offers to researchers as complete a ...
General This application provides offline access to 80 treaties and other documents relating to international humanitarian law (IHL) – most notably, the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, the ICRC’s original and updated Com
On Friday, January 12, 2024 a panel discussed an update to the international humanitarian law principles in the context of the Israel/Gaza conflict. This panel examined the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) principles to the current conflict in Israel/Gaza. Expert panelists from ...
International humanitarian law (IHL), often referred to as the laws of war, the laws and customs of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal corpus "comprised of the Geneva Conventions and the Hague Conventions, as well as subsequent treaties, case law, and customary international law...
How can compliance of non-state armed groups with international humanitarian law (IHL) be improved? In answering this question, this chapter presents a political science perspective and approach to achieve three goals. First, the author discusses the current state of our understanding about the ...
Attacks on hospitals and schools as violations ofinternational humanitarian law(debate) Napadi na bolnice i škole kao povredemeđunarodnoga humanitarnoga prava(rasprava) eurlex-diff-2017 having regard to the Geneva Conventions and other legal instruments oninternational humanitarian law(IHL), ...
Main Subject Law and Legal Studies Degree LLM Study Level Masters This one-year postgraduate degree course provides advanced, comprehensive and practical training in international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL), international criminal law, as well as the interplay...
In the Handbook's Introduction, Dieter Fleck mentions that the first edition, published in German in 1994[1], was built upon the German Armed Forces's (Bundeswehr) Manual of international humanitarian law (IHL), an account of Germany's long-standing involvement in the implementation of IHL[2...