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Take the free online ICRC course on the Rights and responsibilities of health care personnel working in conflicts and other emergencies - IHL e-learning.

Take the free ICRC online course on Health care in danger: The legal framework. IHL e-learning - laws governing health care services in armed conflict.

Take the ICRC online course on Understanding Detention. This IHL e-learning module is in free open-access. Originally for ICRC delegates, now public!

An international expert panel series exploring the challenges of new military technologies such as cyber warfare, human enhancement, armed drones and robots.

Universities can help enhance respect for the impartial and safe provision of health care in conflicts and other emergencies. To assist them in teaching legal issues linked to health care, the ICRC has designed a half-day workshop combining video, presentations, group work and discussion. The workshop enables students and teachers of law to address the legal issues linked to health care in...

This interactive summary guides you through the ethical, legal, scientific and military challenges posed by new technologies in the modern battlefield.

Covering a time span of 150 years, the exhibition displays a series of letters, maps and other original materials from the ICRC Archives and the International Museum of the Red Cross.

On 24 May 2016 at the World Humanitarian Summit, ICRC President Peter Maurer gave a speech in which he called on parties to armed conflict to translate existing commitments into concrete action to protect and alleviate the suffering of those affected by armed conflicts around the world. “The dangerously large gap between discourse and practice around [international humanitarian law] must be...

On 23 May 2016 at the World Humanitarian Summit, ICRC President Peter Maurer addressed the high-level roundtable “Leaving no one behind: A commitment to address forced displacement”. “Respect for international humanitarian law, assistance where people are and according to their needs, protection for those who flee and pragmatic solutions for those who settle elsewhere – that is how we...

On 21-23 June 2016, the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War and the Exeter Law School convened an international conference in Exeter.