The distinction between international humanitarian law and international human rights law

Abstract

International humanitarian law, by its customary sources and the Convention and its principles, is the old branch of general international law. The provisions of which have been codified over decades in the form of customary rules and a convention codified in public conventions since the nineteenth century to provide legal protection to the human and civil property of all kinds in times of war and armed conflict. The control of the hostilities and their methods restricts the right of parties to war or armed conflict to use whatever means of warfare to alleviate suffering and pain and to minimize the losses caused by such situations, international or internal, faced by military or civilian personnel.