• Preface
• Foreword
• International Humanitarian Law: An Overview
• Introduction to International Humanitarian Law *

• Act of War
• Aggression
• Algeria *
• Amnesty *
• Apartheid
• Arab-Israeli War
• Israel’s Views of the Application of IHL to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
• Armistice

• Belligerent Status
• Biological Experiments
• Biological Weapons
• Blockade as Act of War
• Bosnia

• Cambodia
• Carpet or Area Bombing
• Chechnya
• Chemical Weapons
• Child Soldiers
• Children as Killers
• Civil Defense
• Civil Patrol
• Civil War
• Civilian Immunity
• Civilian, Illegal Targeting of
• Collateral Damage
• Collective Punishment
• Colombia
• Combatant Status
• Command Responsibility
• Common Article 3
• Compelling Military Service
• Concentration Camps
• Crimes against Humanity
• Crimes against Peace
• Cultural Property and Historical Monuments
• Customary Law

• Dangerous Forces: Dams, Dikes, and Nuclear Stations
• Dead and Wounded
• Death Squads
• Deportation
• Disappearances
• Due Process
• Due Process Rights

• Environmental Warfare
• Kuwaiti Oil Wells
• Ethnic Cleansing
• Evacuation of Civilians from the Battlefield
• Executions, Extrajudicial
• The Camera as a Witness

• Forced Labor
• Free Fire Zones

• Genocide
• Gray Areas in IHL
• Guerrillas
• Gulf War

• Health Care System
• Hors de Combat
• Hospitals
• Hostages
• Humanitarian Aid, Blocking of
• Humanitarian Intervention

• Identification
• Illegal or Prohibited Acts
• Immunity from Attack
• Imprisonment of Civilian Population
• Incitement to Genocide
• Indiscriminate Attack
• Internal Displacement
• Intervention, Right of *
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission
• International vs. Internal Armed Conflict
• Common Article 3
• Iran-Iraq War
• Irregulars

• Journalists, Protection of
• Journalists in Peril
• Jurisdiction, Universal
• Jus as Bellum/Jus in Bello
• Just and Unjust War

• Legitimate Military Targets
• Levée en Masse
• Liberia
• Limited War

• Mass Graves
• Medical Experiments on POWs
• Medical Transports
• Medical Personnel
• Medico-Legal Investigations of War Crimes
• Mercenaries
• Military Necessity
• Military Objective
• Mines

• NATO and the Geneva Conventions
• Nuclear Weapons

• Occupation of Territory

• Paramilitaries
• Parlementaires
• Perfidy and Treachery
• Persecution on Political, Racial, or Religious Grounds
• Pillage
• Poisonous Weapons
• Prisoner of War Camps
• Prisoners of War, non-repatriation of
• Property: Civilian, Destruction of
• Property: Wanton Destruction
• Proportionality, Principle of
• Protected Persons

• Quarter, Giving No

• Red Cross/Red Crescent Emblem
• Refoulement
• Refugees, Rights of
• Remembering, duty of *
• Reprisal
• Reprisal Killing
• Rwanda–The Genocide
• Rwanda–Refugees and Genocidaires

• Safety Zones
• Sanctions
• Sexual Violence
• Sexual Violence: Systematic Rape
• Sexual Violence: Enslavement and Forced Prostitution
• Shields
• Sick and Wounded
• Siege
• Slavery
• Soldiers, Rights of
• Starvation

• Terrorism
• Terrorism against Civilians
• Torture
• Total War
• Training in International Humanitarian Law
• Transfer of Civilians

• Undefended Towns
• United Nation and the Geneva Conventions
• Unlawful Confinement

• Victims, Rights of