Ensuring national compliance with IHL: The role and impact of national IHL committees
In: International review of the Red Cross: humanitarian debate, law, policy, action, Volume 96, Issue 895-896, p. 1043-1048
ISSN: 1607-5889
Since the First Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864, international humanitarian law (IHL) has become a complex and steadily developing body of international law. Its conventions, protocols and customary rules encompass a large range of subjects, from the protection of the sick and wounded, civilians, civilian objects, prisoners of war and cultural property to the restriction or prohibition of specific types of weapons and methods of warfare. All parties to a conflict are bound by applicable IHL, including armed groups involved in non-international armed conflicts.