Learn more about International Humanitarian Law
The following resources from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Canadian Red Cross will help introduce students to International Humanitarian Law (IHL). They can be used as background resources ahead of playing through Ana, Tam, Nora & Miguel’s experiences, or as tools to assist with debrief.
Fighting for Dignity: Ana’s Experience
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
- Voices of Child Soldiers. From EHL Exploration 2C: Focus on Child Soldiers.
- Definition of sexual violence. EHL Glossary
- What is a war crime? EHL Exploration 4A Rationales and options for dealing with IHL violations.
- Lessons from EHL exploration 4B Judicial Options. EHL Module 4, Dealing with Violations.
- Lessons from EHL exploration 4C Non-judicial options. EHL Module 4, Dealing with Violations.
- Needs that Arise from the Devastation of War. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Focus on Restoring Family Links. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- I Don’t Want to Go Back. From EHL Exploration 2C: Focus on Child Soldiers.
- Voices of Child Soldiers. Susan’s story. EHL exploration 2C: Focus on Child Soldiers
- Planning a camp for people displaced by war
- Invisible Women. From Canada & Conflict Module 1 The Humanitarian Perspective.
- Legal principles and Rules? From Canada & Conflict Module 4 Dealing with Violations – Canadian Responses.
- Case Study on Desire Munyaneza, charged in Canada for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda. From Canada & Conflict Module 4 Dealing with Violations – Canadian Responses.
- Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH): Understanding the Complexities and the Needs. From Canada & Conflict Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
Fighting for Your Life: Tam’s Experience
Child Soldiers
- Needs that Arise from the Devastation of War. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Voices of Child Soldiers. From EHL Exploration 2C: Focus on Child Soldiers.
- Focus on Restoring Family Links. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Paris Principles and Paris Commitments. Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse.
- The Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and Preventing the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers
- A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Book by Ishmael Beah.
- First They Killed my Father : a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. Book by Loung Ung
- War Child: A Child Soldier's Story. Book by Emmanuel Jal
- Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War. Book by Michel Chikwanine and Jessica Dee Humphreys.
- UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
- Beasts of No Nation Movie Trailer
- Liberia/Sierra Leone: Warlords reap from a 'children's war'
- Coercion and Intimidation of Child Soldiers to Participate in Violence
- The UN Refugee Agency
- Grace, Milly, Lucy… Child Soldiers (Movie trailer)
- ICRC Restoring family links
Fighting for their Home: Nora’s Experience
Refugees and Forced Migration
- Needs that Arise from the Devastation of War. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Focus on Restoring Family Links. Explorations from EHL Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Case study: Alone on a Bench. From EHL Exploration 1A: What Can Bystanders Do?
- Case study: The Pink Shirt Campaign. From Canada & Conflict Module 1 The Nature of Humanitarian Acts and the Role of Bystanders.
- Case study: Operation Parasol. From Canada & Conflict Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict.
- Perspectives on Displacement. From Canada & Conflict Module 5 Responding to the Consequences of Armed Conflict
- Invisible Women. From Canada & Conflict Module 1 The Humanitarian Perspective.
- Journeys of hope: from Syria to Canada
- Voices from the Field, Save The Children
- Bridging Two Worlds: Supporting Newcomer and Refugee Youth. CERIC. Lesson plans for teachers and students in Canadian classrooms with youth with lived experience with armed conflict.
- UNHCR figures at a glance. Statistics on global migration
- Restoring Family Links, ICRC.
- IHL Impact: How IHL Impacts Displacement, ICRC
Fighting for their Land: Miguel’s Experience
Armed Conflict
- Case Study: Alone on a Bench: From EHL Exploration 1A: What Can Bystanders Do?
- Exploring Humanitarian Law Exploration 1B: Looking at Humanitarian Acts: Social Pressure Line
- Exploring Humanitarian Law Exploration 2A: What are the Basic Rules of International Humanitarian Law?
- Exploring Humanitarian Law Exploration 4A: Rationales and Options for Dealing with IHL Violations
- Lessons from EHL Exploration 4B: judicial Options, EHL Module 4 Dealing with Violations
- Lessons from EHL exploration 4C Non-judicial options. EHL Module 4, Dealing with Violations
- Canada & Conflict Module 2: Limit’s of Armed: Canada’s Contributions: Anti-Personnel Mines & Ottawa Treaty
- Canada & Conflict Module 2: Basic Rules of IHL
- Canada & Conflict Module 4: Shrinking Humanitarian Space: Exploring Perspectives
- Case study: From the Perspective of Canadian Soldiers & Humanitarian Workers. Dilemma Scenario 1 Routine patrol. From Canada & Conflict Module 3 The Law in Action
- Canada & Conflict Module 2: IHL & Human Rights - Exploring the Differences and Similarities
- Canada & Conflict Module 4: Dealing with Violations: Responding to Violations of IHL
- Geneva Conventions of 1949
- National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- MMIWHOISMISSING
- Rule 149. Responsibility for violations of International Humanitarian Law
- When is a conflict international? Time for new control tests in IHL
- The ICRC’s legal position on the notion of armed conflict involving foreign intervention and on determining the IHL applicable to this type of conflict
- Canadian Association Against Impunity (CAAI) v Anvil Mining Ltd.
- Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Gize Yebeyo Araya, et al.
- ICRC Annual Report 2020 - Colombia
- Mining production, territory and conflict in Colombia
- Classification of conflict
- Classification of armed conflicts : The distinction between international and non-international armed conflicts
- Limits in armed conflict - Module 2D
- Towards Social Inclusion: Physical Rehabilitation Programme
- International Guidelines for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Awareness Education
- Ottawa Treaty
- International Mine Awareness Day
- ICRC in Action
- Emblems of Humanity
- Symbols of help, hope and humanity
- Distinction: Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict
- Enhancing protection for civilians in armed conflict and other situations of violence
- Doctors Without Borders
- UNHCR
- UNICEF
- Geneva Conventions of 1949
- Towards Social Inclusion: Physical Rehabilitation Programme
- Polypropylene Technology
- Natural resources
- International Law and Governance of Natural Resources in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations
- Customary IHL - Rule 34 : Journalists
- UN Environment Programme - Country Programmes
- International Law Commission
- ICRC - Resource Center
- The Environment and International Humanitarian Law
- Guidelines on protection of natural environment in armed conflict
- Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission
- Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview
- Children in War
- How does war damage the environment?
- Witnessing the Environmental Impacts of War - Environmental case studies from conflict zones around the world
- Curbing negative environmental impacts of war and armed conflict
- Classification of conflict
- Typology of armed conflicts in international humanitarian law: legal concepts and actual situations
- When Rain Turns to Dust
- Colombia: ICRC assists indigenous population displaced by violence
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 81
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 79
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 51(4)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 35(3)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 51(7)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol I) - Article 55(1)
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol II) - Article 2
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol II) - Article 9
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol II) - Article 11
- Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 (Protocol II) - Article 13(2)
- Article 10 of the Fourth Geneva Convention
- Rights and duties of medical personnel
- Health Care in Danger: A Harsh Reality
- Health Care in Danger
- #NOTATARGET
- Customary IHL - Rule 4 : Definition of Armed Forces
- Customary IHL - Rule 11: Indiscriminate Attacks
- Customary IHL - Rule 12: Definition of Indiscriminate Attacks
- Customary IHL - Rule 97: Human Shields
- Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field - Article 23
- Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War - Article 14
- Customary IHL - Rule 28 : Medical Units
- Customary IHL - Rule 35: Hospital and Safety Zones and Neutralized Zones
- Front Line Defenders - Global Analysis 2020
- Chemical Weapons Convention
- Customary IHL - Rule 74: Chemical Weapons
- Customary IHL - Rule 75: Riot Control Agents
- Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
- Colombia: the Special Jurisdiction for Peace one year after – ICJ analysis
- Reparation, Indigenous Rights, Social Rights: Imagining Justice for Ethnic Communities in Colombia
- The difficult reality of the armed conflict in Colombia
- International humanitarian law in Colombia: Going a step beyond
