ECH 1100 Lecture 8: international humanitarian law, international human rights law, UDHR, IHL, IHRL

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean-François Ratelle

Document Summary

Ech 100 (fall 2018), international humanitarian law (ihl) and international human rights law (ihrl) International humanitarian law (ihl: it"s part of international law and is a set of rules that limit the effects of armed conflict. 2: laws and customs of war, evidence of a general practice accepted as law. 3: ihl, rules of war, or ihl are a set of international rules that set out what can and cannot be done during an armed conflict, geneva conventions and hague convention. International committee of the red cross (icrc: impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and. 4 dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide assistance: promote compliance w/ ihl and develop ihl, document violations. Main objectives behind ihl: protect those who aren"t fighting, prohibit targeting civilians. Main principles behind ihl: principle of distinction, mandatory in any military operations to distinguish combatants and civilians.