Civilian Harm

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

A guide to the humanitarian law conditions on U.S. arms sales and security assistance to Israel.

In armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, and climate-induced disasters, older people often suffer disproportionately. First in a series.

The right of self-defense does not permit a disproportionate loss of civilian life, writes Professor Adil Haque in this essay on what U.N. Member States can say.

Death, displacement, and hunger demands action to overcome physical and logistical roadblocks to humanitarian aid.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

Countries must accelerate repatriation of their citizens, but governments need assistance to enhance their support systems for families.

Introducing a collaboration with the Programme on International Peace and Security at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.

"Conversations of this nature are useless if their participants fail to acknowledge their differences of opinion about underlying assumptions."

International law is critical to survival in Israel and Palestine.

For the over 2 million civilians in Gaza, Israel's "complete" siege has created dire humanitarian conditions.

Israeli leaders must abide by the rules of international law that guide armed conflict and provide water access to civilians in Gaza.