International Humanitarian Law


International Humanitarian Law Articles

Attacks on Healthcare in the Ethiopia-Tigray Armed Conflict: Making a Case for accountability under International Humanitarian Law

Ethiopia’s war in Tigray, in its northern region, stands as one of the gravest African armed conflicts of the 2020s. Beyond threatening regional stability in the Horn of Africa, the conflict gav...

Human Rights Articles

Legality and Challenges of 'Responsibility to Protect' in Prevention of Mass Atrocities

In fact, the precept of responsibility to protect commonly termed as R2P has been developed for early response to prevent mass atrocity crimes, e.g. genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing or crimes ag...

Human Rights Articles

Humanitarian Law Consideration in the Bombardment of Military Targets and Objects: The Syrian Armed Conflict in Perspective

It is a norm in warfare as the case of Syria, where bombardment of both military and civilian objects has featured prominently. Children, women and indeed the civilian population are often severely af...