IHL Campaign Quiz

What is International Humanitarian Law (IHL)?

• IHL is a set of rules that protect human rights during times of peace and armed conflict from the

  actions that governments might take

• IHL is a set of rules created by the United Nations that outlaw or prevent wars from taking place.

• IHL is a set of rules that limit the effects of armed conflict by protecting people who are not or no longer participating in armed conflict and by restricting the means and methods of warfare.

• IHL is a set of rules that govern how countries distribute humanitarian aid around the world.

What are the main instruments of IHL?

• The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols of 1977

• The Treaty of Versailles in 1919

• The 1951 Refugee Convention

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948

Who does IHL seek to protect?

• Civilians

• Wounded Soldiers

• Prisoners of War

• Military Medical Personnel

• All of the above

What actions do you think that IHL permits?

• Torturing Captured enemy combatants in order to get important military information.

• Attacking enemy Combatants

• Targeting civilian food, medicine, or water in order to weaken the enemy.

• Using children under the age of 15 as child soldiers.

• None of the above

Medical personnel only have to treat sick and wounded on their side of the conflict.

• True

• False

What are the main measures that IHL takes to safeguard Education systems?

• Protect

• Educate

• Ensure

• All of the above

55% believe that if the other side does not respect IHL, they do not have to do so either.

• True

• False

What is one of the outcomes of following the IHL rules?

• Fewer civilian deaths.

• Fewer refugees and internally displaced persons.

• A greater opportunity to rebuild after the conflict.

• All of the above

Who was an individual who inspired the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement?

• Henry Dunant

• Clara Barton

• Louis Appia

• Théodore Maunoir

Girls are 2.5 times more likely to not attend school than boys in conflict-ridden countries.(ODI)

• True

• False