The ICRC’s 2024 Challenges Report on International Humanitarian Law

In 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross published their sixth report on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts. The report provides a broad overview of the major challenges posed to IHL today, and discusses a broad range of issues including nuclear weapons, ‘proxy’ and ‘hybrid’ warfare, new technologies, and humanitarianism. The report can be found here: https://www.icrc.org/en/report/2024-i... In this talk, Dr Cordula Droege – the Chief Legal Officer and head of the Legal Division at the ICRC – will discuss the problems identified by the report, and reflect upon the current state of IHL. This event was chaired by Dr Maria Varaki, Lecturer in International Law in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.