Why is international humanitarian law (still) misapplied?

09/25/2014. From Ukraine to Syria via Iraq and Central African Republic, the conflicts in the world have a common point. Apart from their destructive nature, they are all governed by international humanitarian law (also known as humanitarian law or IHL), whose objective is the protection of all victims of wars.

Deciphering the role of IHL, a simple concept whose main weakness lies in the difficulty of its implementation.

Read the article on the website of “Le Monde”


Related Articles

Good Foreign Policy Is Invisible

02/28/2017. The problem is that successful foreign policy is largely invisible. Sometimes, successful foreign policy even means keeping real victories quiet.

Rethinking diplomacy

03/15/2016. Here’s an index that’ll help you make sense of international relations

The final desperate plan

03/21/2016. Every week, Jean-Marie Colombani, co founder and director of Slate.fr expressed freely and subjectively his views on the highlights news.