Understanding International Humanitarian Law IHL is a set of rules designed to limit the effects of armed conflict on people and objects. They seek to protect those who are not participating in ...

A discussion of the pager attack in the Middle East and its implications for national security, the laws of war and global ...

Today the United States endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, a political commitment to protect education during war. By ...

Image of a Russian soldier standing in front of a “Z,” the symbol of the Ukraine invasion. In a newly intercepted call, Russian servicemembers are heard discussing the execution of a Ukrainian ...

Rebel forces, particularly Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Syrian National Army (SNA), carried out an offensive that ended the 50 years of the Assad family's authoritarian rule in Syria.

It is important to recognise the hidden costs that armed conflicts inflict upon the environment and the communities living in the affected areas. While the loss of human lives and destruction of ...

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday released a review of the impact of armed ... in conflicts to take decisive actions to protect children’s rights and ...

the law of armed conflict. Cecilia Vega: What's the message the U.S. has sent to the Netanyahu government? Andrew Miller: I believe the message that Prime Minister Netanyahu received is that he ...

The risk of conflict in the ... China's EEZ that provokes an armed Chinese response. The United States holds that nothing in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) or state ...

The proceedings of the 2020 conference were published by the Fordham International Law Journal in a Special Edition and those ...

In August, the de facto authorities announced a new law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention ... In Myanmar, an escalating armed conflict over the past year has worsened conditions for Rohingya ...

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict (LOAC) aims at reducing the disastrous effects of armed conflicts by regulating the means and methods of warfare and by establishing ...