PPT-Exploring International Humanitarian Law

International Services What is International Humanitarian Law International Humanitarian Law IHL is a body of rules which in times of armed conflict seek to protect people who are not or are no longer taking part in the fighting. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A flash in the sky. A city decimated. A city decimated. Severe disfigurement. Enter the Red Cross….Dr Marcel Junod. ‘We (…) witnessed a sight totally unlike anything we had ever seen before. The centre of the city was a sort of white patch, flattened and smooth like the palm of a hand. Nothing remained. The slightest trace of houses seemed to have disappeared. The white patch was about two kilometres in diameter. Around its edge was a red belt, marking the area where houses had burned, extending quite a long way further (..) covering almost the rest of the city.’. Regulatory problems in international disaster response . operations – Findings of the IFRC . Sanne . Boswijk. Disaster Law Coordinator for MENA. Kuwait, 10 June 2015. Foreign Rescue Team Delayed By Japanese Bureaucracy. November 2013. Harry Shannon. McMaster University. Working with. David Sanderson. . Director, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University. Charles . Parrack. , . Protection of Civilians . Kelisiana Thynne. Research Manager. Australian Civil-Military Centre. Introduction. “. The . contemporary . operational environment is . dynamic, complex, . and turbulent. Ben Baseley-Walker,. Legal and Policy Advisor, Secure World Foundation. bbw@swfound.org. +1-202-255-2153. Overview. International Law 101. Foundations. Jus ad bellum/ jus in . bello. General Principles. The Professionalization of the Human Rights and Humanitarianism. The professionalization of the human rights and humanitarian work is evidenced by proliferation of handbooks, codes, and guidelines issued by states, IGO, and NGOs. . Louise Olliff. PhD candidate. . (Anthropology & Development Studies), University of Melbourne. Senior Policy Officer, Refugee Council of Australia. Overview. Humanitarianism and the international refugee regime. Human Rights and Humanitarian Diplomacy . Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy. is the bargaining, negotiating, and advocating process involved with promoting and protecting international human rights and humanitarian principles. . th. and 21. st. . Centuries. The Role of Technology, money, and the Human Spirit. The Beginnings of Humanitarian Aid. The precise definition of humanitarian aid may vary from time to time and place to place, and there are certainly controversies over the extent to which political and military operations should be involved in humanitarian aid, but humanitarian aid invariably involves the concept of providing material and logistical assistance in response to a crisis situation, whether it be natural or man-made, for the purpose of alleviating human suffering and saving lives.. Yiliu. Lu & Qi Zhang. GSICCS. June 26. th. , 2013. Humanitarian Intervention and . the . Libyan/ Syrian C. onflicts. . 1. Introduction. . 2. . R2P. . 3. . Conflicts in Libyan & Syrian. some of their rules are similar these two bodies of law have developed separately and are contained in different treaties In particular human rights law unlike international humanitarian law applies NTD 416. MISS TAIWO O.M. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS. AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY ADO-EKITI. INTRODUCTION. The international ‘humanitarian system’ includes a wide range of . organisations. Protection is at the core of our work. Protection is a . shared responsibility. of all humanitarian actors;. Protection is an expected . collective outcome. of the humanitarian response;. Protection considerations . AND . NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS . IN . IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN UKRAINE. Nataliia. Hendel, PhD, Associate Professor of International Law and International Relations at the National University “.