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
Pope Francis receives the Grand Master in Audience: “Go ahead with courage, you express spirituality through your works”
06/22/2018. During the meeting, the Grand Master illustrated the Order of Malta’s main activities in the humanitarian and diplomatic sectors last year.
The UN mediator in Syria went to Riyadh and Tehran
01/04/2016. Staffan de Mistura says the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran is very worrying and that it may cause a series of adverse consequences in the region.
Syria: to end a never-ending war
June 2017. The present paper aims to propose a strategy for the conflict’s resolution, and for leading Syria towards a stable political recovery.
