But that may as well have been the prelude to the role that would enable his early retirement — setting up the publishing ...

The driving themes of IHL surrounds mitigating the harm to non-combatants during hostilities. The first driver is, therefore, to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. In most battles ...

He highlighted the Safe Corridor programme in Gombe where former militants, combatants and non-combatants are assessed and given necessary support. He said, “With regards to the dignity of ...

Palestinian civilians in Gaza are protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention, as non-combatants living under occupation. And yet, in recent days, Israeli rhetoric and actions appear to ...

One way to mitigate the risk to civilians has to do with understanding and developing protocol to assess combat with enemies that deliberately place non-combatants in harm’s way. America’s future ...

If Turkey were to deploy troops, the source emphasised that a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia would first need to be declared, and initial deployments should involve non-combatant units to ...

“There was a non-combatant evacuation operation required to get American citizens out of Sudan when violence was erupting. And because there was no ARG/MEU presence, the AFRICOM commander was ...

There appear to have been many over the past 48 hours. The agony of non-combatants is war’s worst feature. But a myopic focus on civilian suffering can obfuscate the truth of war as much as ignoring ...

Presenting his global update covering more than 30 countries, the High Commissioner described as “outrageous” the fact that legal safeguards for non-combatants were being repeatedly ignored.

In recent reports, OCHA highlighted civilian casualties in Gaza without distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants, a standard practice in other conflicts. Such omissions distort the ...