IHL SG IMCC 2025

What is International Humanitarian Law?

Which one is correct about the purpose of IHL?

• The principle of necessity, the prohibition to inflict unnecessary suffering, principle of communication, the prohibition to attack those hors de combat, principle of precaution

• The principle of war, principle of necessity, principle of precaution, the prohibition to attack those hors de combat, the prohibition to inflict unnecessary suffering

• The principle of distinction, the principle of necessity, the principle of proportionality, the prohibition to attack those hors de combat, the prohibition to inflict unnecessary suffering

• The principle of necessity, the prohibition to inflict unnecessary suffering, principle of belligerent, the prohibition to attack those hors de combat, principle of precaution

Are the Geneva Conventions a source of international humanitarian law?
And it is a Customary International Humanitarian Law.

• Yes

• No

What are the sources of International Humanitarian Law?

As the law of war, does IHL justify or prohibit war? Explain the rationale for your

answer!

Briefly elaborate on any case of international law, preferably one

under the scope of international humanitarian law! (such as; what happened in the case, what types of crime occurred, etc...)