International Humanitarian Law

In Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Emma Dunlop focuses on the scope and content of article 16 of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Und...

Though the Qatar 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup is for many a symbol of long-standing corruption and human rights problems, the event may actually repre...

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security. In recent decades the scope of disarmament law has bro...

The focus of this edited volume is the often-overlooked importance of secondary rules of international law. Secondary rules of international law-su...

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security. In recent decades the scope of disarmament law has bro...

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951 in Geneva continues to provide the most comprehensive codification of the...

The starting point of this book is the generally shared observation that in violence-torn areas of limited statehood, the civilian population is of...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debate...

As wealthy countries build walls to keep migrants out, countries in the Global South are celebrated for their hospitality towards refugees. Hosting...

As wealthy countries build walls to keep migrants out, countries in the Global South are celebrated for their hospitality towards refugees. Hosting...

Law and Morality at War develops a normative framework within which the law of armed conflict should be evaluated, interpreted, and reformed. The b...

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century. The attempt to ...

International humanitarian law is the law that governs the conduct of participants during armed conflict. This branch of law aims to regulate the m...

The 2014-2015 Edition Released in annual editions of 6 volumes, the Annual Review of United Nations Affairs is the only thorough annual survey of ...

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human righ...

The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they shock the conscience of ...

The idea of military necessity lies at the centre of the law of armed conflict and yet it is less than fully understood. This book analyses which l...

The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in ...

The book is based on a seminar jointly conducted at the United Service Institution of India(USI) by USI and the International Committee of the Red ...