International humanitarian law (IHL), is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. IHL is a set of rules which seek – for humanitarian reasons – to limit the effects of armed conflict ...

including human rights law and international humanitarian law. The International Law Commission was established by the General Assembly in 1947 to promote the progressive development of ...

These rights are also known as peremptory norms of international law or jus cogens norms. The basic object of both human rights law and humanitarian law are to extend protection to the human ...

In the framework of the co-operation between the ICRC and the British Red Cross to update the practice collection of the ICRC's study on customary international humanitarian law (IHL), the ICRC and ...

The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols form the basis of modern international humanitarian law, setting out how soldiers and civilians should be treated during war. Although they were ...

Under international humanitarian law, the conflict in Somalia is considered a non-international armed conflict. (An international armed conflict is an armed conflict between two or more states.) ...

Violations of the basic rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) are becoming increasingly common. Civilian populations and property are attacked, with markets and schools targeted directly.

4 The articles discussed below are considered customary law, that is ... sets up duties to record and share information, protect humanitarian missions, and take all feasible precautions ...

Yet, international humanitarian law is violated every day. At the United Nations, France promotes the universalization and respect for the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols. It is ...