The American Red Cross’s International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Youth Action Campaign empowers youth and young adults, ages 13-24, to learn about international humanitarian law—the body of law that governs armed conflict.
Young people volunteer to educate the American public on IHL by exploring topics with their communities through peer-to-peer education campaigns. Youth teams participate in an IHL training, during which they learn how to build their own educational campaigns and conduct in-person and social media activities to promote awareness around IHL.
For the 2020-2021 academic year teams will focus on Education in war – how educational systems can be damaged by armed conflict and how the law protects them.
Watch an informational video about the program here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2r9Q-D_a78&feature=emb_logo
