Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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How do states turn the legal obligations they have signed up to under international humanitarian law, the laws of war, into concrete action?

This is the question states asked us, the International Committee of the Red Cross, 30 years ago.

And so we created the International Committee of the Red Cross Advisory Service. Find out more about how it works, the successes and challenges it has faced in this video with ICRC’s chief legal office Cordula Droege