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Computer screen with warning: civilian infrastucture: do not attack

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Digitalization of Conflict Joint Initiative: Humanitarian Impact and Legal Protection

NYU Stern BHR Knitwear Factory in Mymensingh

NYU Stern BH

Business and Human Rights: Towards a Decade of Global Implementation

George Floyd protest in Washington D.C.

Victoria Pickering

Promoting and Protecting the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association and Civic Space Worldwide

Human Rights Commission, VCalparaiso, Chile

Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de Chile

The Role of National Human Rights Systems in the Implementation of International Human Rights Standards and Recommendations

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orihaus

Disruptive Military Technologies

On the screen, on the screen is Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), briefing the Security Council on the 70th Anniversary of Geneva Conventions.

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

International Humanitarian Law and the United Nations Security Council

Surveillance Camera

Oliver Peters / Pixabay

COUNTER-TERROR PROJECT: A LEGAL EMPIRICAL APPROACH

A session of the UN Human Rights Committtee at Palais Wilson

CCPR Centre

Implementing International Humanitarian Law Through Human Rights Mechanisms

Séléka rebels patrol in the town of Bria, Central African Republic (CAR).

MSF

Human Rights Responsibilities and Armed Non-State Actors

Wheat field

Daniel Taylor

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and the Protection of the Right to Seeds in Europe

UN Peacekeepers on Patrol in Abyei, Sudan. Zambian peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) patrol streets lined with looted items awaiting collection in Abyei, the main town of the disputed Abyei area on the border of Sudan and newly

UN Photo/Stuart Price

The Intersection between Transitional Justice, International Security and Responsibility to Protect

Central African Republic, Ouham province, village of Ouogo. International Humanitarian Law dissemination session to members of the Peoples' Army for the Restoration of Democracy.

ICRC

From Words to Deeds: A Study of Armed Non-State Actors’ Practice and Interpretation of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Norms

A wheelchair completely destroyed after the bombing of a civilian area

Medical Aid for Palestinians / Ezz Al Zanoon

Disability and Armed Conflict

Data connections with a man's shadow on the back

Hugo Escalpelo

HUMAN RIGHTS, BIG DATA AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

Chittagong (Bangladesh) ship breaking yard

Adam Cohn

A Practitioners' Guide on Human Rights and Countering Corruption

Senegal, Ziguinchor area, Bignona Department, Kataba 1 municipality, Kouram village. A woman works in a vegetable garden as part of an economic security programme.

ICRC

Towards Food Sustainability: Reshaping the Coexistence of Different Food Systems in South America and Africa

Somalia, Bakool region, Hudur village. Woman selling products at market.

ICRC

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Madagascar, Miarinarivo district. Women transplanting rice.

ICRC

The Rights of Peasants

Rwanda, on the outskirts of Kigali, Wa-Jali. Jeanne Françoise, a young girl reunited two years ago with her grandmother by the ICRC, stands in a banana orchard near her house.

ICRC

Development and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Screenshot of the RULAC webpage

Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts (RULAC)

ibmphoto24

Human Rights in the Digital Age

Completed in June 2020

© ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee

Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Context of Business Activities

Completed in February 2020

ICRC

INVESTIGATING IN SITUATIONS OF ARMED CONFLICT: Law, Policy and Good Practice

Completed in December 2019

ICRC

The War Report

Completed in December 2019

ICC-CPI

Modes of Liability for International Crimes

Completed in October 2019

UN Photo / Pierre Albouy

Universality in the Human Rights Council

Completed in October 2019

ICRC

Use of Force, Crowd Control and Peaceful Protests

Completed in October 2019

Joint IED Defeat Organization

Improvised Explosive Devices: The Global Response

Completed in September 2018

ICRC

‘Foreign Fighters’ and Counter-Terrorism

Completed in June 2018

ICRC

The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary

Completed in March 2018

Weapons Law Encyclopedia

Completed in December 2017

Crown Copyright

Autonomous Weapon Systems under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

Completed in May 2017

ICRC

Armed Non-State Actors and the Human Rights Council

Completed in December 2016

ICRC

Historical Injustices, Reparations and International Law

Completed in October 2016

Control Arms

The Arms Trade Treaty

Completed in September 2016

Sandra Pointet / Geneva Academy

The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

Completed in May 2016

ICRC

Police Use of Force

Completed in December 2015

U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers

Support to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence

Completed in December 2015

ICRC

Armed Non-State Actors and the Protection of Civilians

Completed in December 2015

Daniel Foster

Nuclear Weapons under International Law

Completed in December 2015

ICRC

Standards of Proof in Fact Finding

Completed in December 2015

UNAMA

The Impact of Counter-Terrorism Laws and Measures on Humanitarian Action

Completed in December 2015

Crown Copyright

Armed Drones and Autonomous Weapon Systems under International Law

Completed in December 2015

ICRC

Protection of Education in Armed Conflict

Completed in December 2014

Defence Images

Counterpiracy under International Law

Completed in December 2013

Chris van Dyck

Non-Kinetic-Energy Weapons

Completed in December 2011

ICRC

Rules of Engagement

Completed in December 2011

The U.S. Army

The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers

Completed in December 2010

UN Photo/Stuart Price

Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Completed in December 2009

ICRC

The Law of Military Occupation

Completed in December 2008