The Companion to International Humanitarian Law.

Intro -- The Companion to International Humanitarian Law -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: ihl in a Time of Crisis - Back to the Basics? -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Section A: Essays -- 1 Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes, and Challenges of the ICRC's Approach -- 2 Comparing Experiences: Engaging States and Non-State Armed Groups on International Humanitarian Law -- 3 Legislative Measures in International Humanitarian Law: A Jigsaw of Subtle Fragmentation -- 4 The Future of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission: A Possibility to Overcome the Weakness of IHL Compliance Mechanisms? -- 5 The Role of United Nations Commissions of Inquiry in the Implementation of IHL: Potential and Challenges -- 6 The Intricate Relationship between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in the European Court for Human Rights Case Law: An Analysis of the Specific Case of Detention in Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 7 International Humanitarian Law in the Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals and Courts -- Section B: Entries -- 1 Abandoned Explosive Ordnances -- 2 Acts Harmful to the Enemy -- 3 Additional Protocol I -- 4 Additional Protocol II -- 5 Additional Protocol III -- 6 Administrative Detention -- 7 Aerial Warfare -- 8 Amnesty -- 9 Animals -- 10 Annexation -- 11 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (1997) -- 12 Anti-Terrorist Operations -- 13 Apartheid -- 14 Area Bombardment -- 15 Armed Forces -- 16 Armed Groups -- 17 Armistice -- 18 Arms Trade Treaty (2014) -- 19 Artillery -- 20 Asymmetric Warfare -- 21 Asphyxiating Gases -- 22 Assigned Residence -- 23 Attacks -- 24 Attacks against Civilians and Persons Hors de Combat -- 25 Attacks against Historic Monuments, Works of Art and Places of Worship.

26 Attacks against Non-Defended Localities and Demilitarised Zones -- 27 Attacks against Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population -- 28 Attacks against Works or Installations Containing Dangerous Forces -- 29 Attacks not Directed at a Specific Military Objective -- 30 Attacks which Employ a Method or Means of Combat the Effects of which Cannot be Limited -- 31 Attacks which Employ a Method or Means of Combat which Cannot be Directed at a Specific Military Objective -- 32 Aut Dedere Aut Iudicare -- 33 Autonomous Weapons -- 34 Bacteriological Weapons -- 35 Belligerency -- 36 Belligerents -- 37 Belligerents, Equality of -- 38 Biological Weapons Convention (1972) -- 39 Blockade -- 40 Bombardment -- 41 Booby-Traps -- 42 Brussels Declaration (1874) -- 43 Camouflage -- 44 Capture Card -- 45 Casualties, Search for -- 46 Central Tracing Agency -- 47 Chemical Weapons Convention (1992) -- 48 Child Soldiers -- 49 Children -- 50 Civil Defence -- 51 Civil War -- 52 Civilian Objects -- 53 Civilian Population -- 54 Civilians -- 55 Cluster Munitions -- 56 Coastal Rescue Craft -- 57 Code of Conduct -- 58 Collateral Damage -- 59 Collective Punishment -- 60 Combatants -- 61 Command Responsibility -- 62 Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-Finding Missions -- 63 Common Article 1 -- 64 Common Article 2 -- 65 Common Article 3 -- 66 Compelling a Protected Person to Serve in the Forces of the Hostile Power -- 67 Conciliation -- 68 Continuous Combat Function -- 69 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (1980) -- 70 Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008) -- 71 Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and its Protocols -- 72 Conventional Arms -- 73 Counter-Terrorism -- 74 Cruel Treatment -- 75 Cultural Property -- 76 Customary International Humanitarian Law -- 77 Customary International Law -- 78 Cyber Warfare -- 79 Dead Persons.

80 Deportation or Transfer of Civilians -- 81 Deprivation of Liberty -- 82 Deprivation of Liberty, Treatment -- 83 Derogation -- 84 Deserters -- 85 Detention -- 86 Direct Participation in Hostilities -- 87 Disability -- 88 Disappearance -- 89 Discipline -- 90 Dissemination -- 91 Distinguish, Obligation to -- 92 Distinction -- 93 Drones -- 94 Dual-Use Objects -- 95 Dum-Dum (Expanding) Bullets -- 96 Dunant, Henry -- 97 Economic Warfare -- 98 Education -- 99 Embargo -- 100 Embedded Journalists -- 101 Emblem -- 102 Enquiry -- 103 Environment -- 104 Expanding Bullets -- 105 Exploding Bullets -- 106 Extrajudicial Killing -- 107 Evacuation -- 108 Explosive Remnants of War -- 109 Explosive Weapons -- 110 Fair Trial -- 111 Flag State -- 112 Forced Labour -- 113 Foreign Fighters -- 114 Freedom Fighters -- 115 Fundamental Guarantees -- 116 Gender Violence -- 117 Geneva Convention i -- 118 Geneva Convention ii -- 119 Geneva Convention iii -- 120 Geneva Convention iv -- 121 Geneva Conventions -- 122 Geneva Gas Protocol (1925) -- 123 Geneva Law -- 124 Grave Breaches -- 125 Guerrilla -- 126 Hague Convention (iv) Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907) -- 127 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property (1954) and its Protocols -- 128 Hague Declaration (iv, 3) Concerning Expanding Bullets (1899) -- 129 Hague Law -- 130 Hague Peace Conferences -- 131 Hague Regulations (1907) -- 132 Health -- 133 Hors de Combat -- 134 Hospital and Safety Zones and Localities -- 135 Hospital Ships -- 136 Hospitals -- 137 Hostages -- 138 Hostilities, Conduct of -- 139 Human Rights Courts and Bodies -- 140 Human Shields -- 141 Humanitarian Assistance -- 142 Humanitarian Corridors -- 143 Humanitarian Relief -- 144 Humanity -- 145 Humiliating and Degrading Treatment -- 146 Hybrid or Internationalised Tribunals -- 147 Implementation.

148 Improvised Explosive Devices -- 149 Incendiary Weapons -- 150 Indiscriminate Attacks -- 151 Individual Criminal Responsibility -- 152 Information Bureaux -- 153 Inhuman Treatment -- 154 Inhumane Weapons Convention -- 155 Initiative -- 156 Integrity -- 157 Internal Disturbances and Tensions -- 158 International Armed Conflict -- 159 International Committee of the Red Cross -- 160 International Committee of the Red Cross, Visit -- 161 International Committee for Relief to the Wounded -- 162 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006) -- 163 International Criminal Law -- 164 International Criminal Tribunals -- 165 International Human Rights Law -- 166 International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission -- 167 International Humanitarian Law -- 168 International Humanitarian Law, General Principles of -- 169 International Organizations -- 170 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement -- 171 Internment -- 172 Italian Military Internees -- 173 Ius Ad Bellum -- 174 Ius in Bello -- 175 Journalists -- 176 Judges and Public Officials -- 177 Kriegsraison -- 178 Land Warfare -- 179 Landmines -- 180 Laser Weapons -- 181 Law Enforcement -- 182 Laws and Customs of War -- 183 Laws of War -- 184 Legislation in Occupied Territory -- 185 Levée en Masse -- 186 Lieber Code -- 187 Life, Right to -- 188 Looting -- 189 Marking -- 190 Martens Clause -- 191 Means of Warfare -- 192 Medical Aircrafts -- 193 Medical Equipment -- 194 Medical Ethics -- 195 Medical or Scientific Experiments -- 196 Medical Personnel -- 197 Medical Standards, Generally Accepted -- 198 Medical Transports -- 199 Medical Transport Vessels -- 200 Medical Units and Establishments -- 201 Mercenaries -- 202 Merchant Vessels -- 203 Methods of Warfare -- 204 Military Commissions -- 205 Military Manuals -- 206 Military Necessity.

207 Military Objectives -- 208 Mines -- 209 Missing Persons -- 210 Mixed Criminal Tribunals -- 211 Mortars -- 212 Murder -- 213 National Criminal Tribunals -- 214 National IHL Committees -- 215 National Information Bureaux -- 216 National Legislation -- 217 National Liberation Movements -- 218 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Society -- 219 Naval Warfare -- 220 Neutral Ports -- 221 Neutral Powers -- 222 Neutrality -- 223 Neutralized Zones -- 224 New Weapons -- 225 No-Fly Zone -- 226 Non-Detectable Fragments -- 227 Non-Discrimination -- 228 Non-International Armed Conflict -- 229 Non-Refoulement -- 230 Non-State Actors -- 231 Nuclear Weapons -- 232 Occupation -- 233 Orders -- 234 Outrage upon Personal Dignity -- 235 Oxford Manual on the Laws of War on Land (1880) -- 236 Participation in Hostilities -- 237 Peace Treaty -- 238 Peacekeeping -- 239 Penal Prosecution -- 240 Penal Sanctions and Legislation -- 241 Penal System -- 242 Perfidy -- 243 Physical Mutilation -- 244 Pillage -- 245 Piracy -- 246 Plunder -- 247 Poisonous Gases -- 248 Precautions, Active -- 249 Precautions, Passive -- 250 Prisoners of War -- 251 Prisoners of War, Exchange of -- 252 Private Military and Security Companies -- 253 Property, Destruction and Appropriation/Seizure of -- 254 Property, Private -- 255 Proportionality -- 256 Protected Objects -- 257 Protected Persons -- 258 Protecting Powers -- 259 Public Health and Hygiene -- 260 Public International Law -- 261 Public Officials -- 262 Public Order and Safety -- 263 Qualified Persons -- 264 Quarter -- 265 Rape and Sexual Violence -- 266 Rebels -- 267 Reciprocity -- 268 Reconnaissance Missions -- 269 Red Crescent -- 270 Red Cross -- 271 Red Crystal -- 272 Red Lion and Sun -- 273 Red Shield of David -- 274 Refugee Law -- 275 Refugees -- 276 Regularly Constituted Courts -- 277 Release -- 278 Relief Societies.

279 Religious Convictions and Practices.

The Companion to International Humanitarian Law offers a much-needed tool for both scholars and practitioners, supplying information accessible enough to enable a variety of users to quickly familiarise themselves with it and sufficiently comprehensive to be a source for reflection and further research for more demanding users. Its aim is to facilitate the practical application of IHL, and be of use to a wide audience interested in or confronted with IHL, ranging from professionals in humanitarian assistance and protection in the field, legal officers and advisers at the national and international level, trainers, academics, scholars, and students.

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