Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog
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Der Podcast Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog bzw. ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog ist eine Veröffentlichung des Internationalen Komitees vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK, engl. ICRC) in englischer Sprache. Die — in der Regel wöchentlichen — Beiträge behandeln Aspekte des Humanitären Völkerrechts (HVR, engl. IHL für International Humanitarian Law) wie zum Beispiel der Genfer Abkommen und ihrer Zusatzprotokolle.
Der Podcast startete im Mai 2021 und ist die gesprochene Variante des gleichnamigen Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, der bereits seit April 2016 erscheint. Herausgeberin ist die Juristin Elizabeth J. Rushing, die seit November 2019 für das IKRK tätig ist (Juli 2022).[1] Der Podcast Humanity in War ist eine Ergänzung dazu.
Letzte Artikel des Blogs
Es folgen die Ankündigungen der letzten neuen Artikel des Blogs in Originalsprache, die zugleich auch als Podcast zur Verfügung stehen. Dieser Inhalt ist dynamisch extern eingebunden und unterliegt den Urheberrechten des IKRK als Quelle, nicht dieser Enzyklopädie.
- Eyes in the sky, weapons in hand: FPV drones and the challenges for IHL and the protection of civilians (10.11.2026)
Drones have become a defining feature of contemporary armed conflicts. Their use has surged dramatically in recent years, originally with the proliferation of inexpensive, commercially available systems, and increasingly with militaries also manufacturing drones at scale. Among these, first-person view (FPV) drones – small, agile aircraft controlled by an operator with a live video stream...
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- Contemporary accomplices? Considering the potential liability of AI targeting system providers under the Rome Statute (29.10.2026)
Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled targeting systems are increasingly being used in armed conflicts to process data and provide lists of military objectives. This raises a difficult question that has received little attention: Could the senior executives of the technology companies that provide these systems face criminal liability under international law when their systems contribute to serious...
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- Yesterday’s children: now is the time to repatriate the children – and the young people who have “aged out” of childhood – in the camps and prisons of north-east Syria and Iraq (22.10.2026)
Several years after the Islamic State group lost its last territory in March 2019, tens of thousands of Syrians, Iraqis, and third-country nationals from around 60 countries – including many children – remained in camps and prisons in north-east Syria and Iraq. In early 2026, almost 6,000 detainees were transferred to Iraq, among them children...
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- AI will not set its own limits in warfare. States must. (15.10.2026)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being developed at extraordinary speed, prompting warnings from within the technology industry itself that advances may be outpacing our ability to understand and control its risks. Nowhere are the stakes higher than in armed conflict. As militaries increasingly explore the integration of AI into weapons and military decision-making, technological capability can...
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- Influencer, gamer, soldier, spy: the online era of child recruitment and its implications in international law (Part II) (08.10.2026)
As social media and gaming platforms create new interfaces between tech-savvy children and armed actors, new questions should be asked regarding how the law prohibiting child recruitment and use in hostilities can be promoted and enforced online. In this two-part post, ICRC Advisers Vanessa Murphy, Siobhan Sparkes McNamara, and Tilman Rodenhäuser consider how the digital...
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Weitere Informationen
Blog und Podcast
- Blogs.ICRC.org, Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog (Website)
- Blogs.ICRC.org, Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog (RSS-Feed)
Enzyklopädie
- Artikel Humanity in War
- Artikel Humanitäres Völkerrecht
- Artikel Genfer Abkommen
- Artikel Internationales Komitee vom Roten Kreuz
Einzelnachweise
- ↑ LinkedIn.com, Elizabeth J. Rushing.
