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We're seeing a huge increase in the use of armed drones by states, but also by non-state actors.

And again, these weapons give the party to the conflict the possibility to be precise, to actually target to minimize civilian arm.

Instead, what are we seeing? We're seeing their use by the

Russians in Hearson province to deliberately target civilians. It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Lauren Voss,

public service fellow at Lawfare, with Stort Casey Maslin, the head of the IHL and Focus Project

at the Geneva Academy of

International Human Rights and a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg.

It is still okay to drop gravity ordnance from 45,000 feet. It's still okay to fire cluster

missions by artillery from 50 kilometers away into a populated area. That cannot be

right. So looking at that picture, I think we need to look at the rules or particularly the types of

weapons that are permissible in a populated area. Today we're talking about the status of international humanitarian law.

The rules-based international order and international law in general appear to be under attack

from multiple fronts. IHL, on the other hand, has arguably been under attack for years,

with significant violations occurring with relative impunity. So what's the current status of IHL?

Well, most may use one or two conflicts as an example.

The Geneva Academy has created a massive report covering July 24 to the end of 2025

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