Humanitarian Law Quotes:

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes,

- Navi Pillay

source: "U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza". www.reuters.com. July 23, 2014.

topic: Strong, War, Law, War Crimes, Humanitarian Law

I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.russianembassy.org

topic: Law, Rights, People, Humanitarian Law

Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

- Kage Baker

source: Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan

topic: Mistake, Hate, Technology, Modern Times, Economic Crisis

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

- Joichi Ito

topic: Rights, Law, Definitions, International, Humanitarian Law

The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

- Philip Alston

topic: Rights, Law, Drones, Humanitarian Law