INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

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CLASSIFICATION OF IHL
International armed conflict
 Conflict between 2 or more states
 Belligerent occupation
 War on national liberation
 Internationalized NIAC
 Foreign intervention
Non
International armed conflict
 Conflict between non-governmental armed
groups
 Conflict between States and non-governmental
armed groups

SOURCES OF IHL
 Treaty law
 Customary law
 General principles of the law
 Case law
 Doctrine
SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF IHL
 Temporal
 Material
 Geographical

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF IHL

 War on terror
 Asymmetric conflicts
 Cyber warfare
 Autonomous weapons
PROTECTED PERSON
 Wounded, sick and shipwrecked
 Medical and religious personnel
 Medical facilities and mobile medical units
 Distinctive signs and emblems
 Dead and missing persons
 Persons deprived of liberty
 Internment if prisoners of war
 Internment and detentions of civilian
 Civilians under the power of the enemy
 Protections of civilian in occupied
territory
 Enemy nationals on the territories of the
parties to the conflict
 Right to humanitarian assistance
 Specific guarantees
 Women
 Children
 Journalist engaged in specific missions

IMPLEMENTATION OF IHL
Implementation obligations outside the context of
armed conflicts
 Dissemination, training and implementing
  Legislation
 International obligations
State responsibility
Individual criminal responsibility
Jurisdictional measures
non Jurisdictional measures and quasi- Jurisdictional
measures
Implementation obligation during armed conflict
 Orders and inquiries
 Protecting powers
 Obligation to ensure respect
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ACTORS OF THE IHL

Belligerents
Other military forces
Non state parties to a conflict
Representatives organs of UN
Representatives of humanitarian organization
Other actors
Statute et mandate of ICRC
National societies of red cross and red crescent
The International Movement of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent

CONDUCT OF HOSTILITIES

General rules
Proportionality
Neutrality

Combatant versus civilian persons and population

Civilian objects versus military objectives
Distinction

The principle of distinction in NIAC's

 Notion of continuous combat function Precaution
 Direct participation in hostilities
 Temporal scope of the loss of protection

Protected areas
Specially protected areas
Protection of the civilian population and civilian objects
against the effects of hostilities

Means of warfare
Superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering
Indiscriminate effects
Specifically regulated weapons
Legal review of new weapons and technologies of
warfare