On Thursday 22 March, Professor Fausto Pocar, President of the Institute, awarded the Institute’s “Prize for the Promotion, Dissemination and Teaching of International Humanitarian Law” for the year 2017 to Professor Michael Bothe, Emeritus at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt,...

In 2000, the UNSC unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), recognising, for the first time ever, that gender inequalities exacerbated in situations of armed conflict hamper the establishment of sustainable peace and development. The UNSCR 1325...

The Institute organized for the very first time its Peace Support Operations course in Jinja (Uganda), aimed at building the capacity of African armed forces on the application of humanitarian law and human rights within the framework of peace support...

The 2017 Round Table on current issues of international humanitarian law (IHL), jointly organized by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and the International Committee of the Red Cross, took place in Sanremo from 7 to 9 September 2017.  This year...

The President, the Council and the staff, as well as members, alumni and the whole community of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law express their deepest condolences for the passing away of Dr. Ugo Genesio, one of the founders of...

Download here the 2018 programme of courses and workshops for 2018 or check the calendar.

The “Competition on IHL for Military Academies” provides teams of 3 Officer Cadets of the top military academies from the around the world with an early appreciation of the critical importance of humanitarian law in multi-national military operations. This is...

The UNESCO Manual on the Protection of Cultural Property, officially presented in Paris in December 2016, is available here. A French version of the Manual is also available.  The Manual, drafted by a team of internationally-renowned experts, serves as a...