The social media influence the public opinion seriously due to its educational and informative function in increasing the individuals’ awareness of the humanitarian issues, including the human rights law, as an applicable instrument in the armed conflicts, providing required grounds for its furtherance and also in protecting the people who have been repeatedly suffered from gross violence. In order to study the role of the media in enhancing the public awareness of the provisions of the humanitarian law, we in the present have addressed a number of questions, such as: What kind of role the media, as a cultural element with different functions, can play in promoting and enhancing the public information and awareness of the humanitarian law? Can the pressures from the media guarantee the implementation of the
provisions inserted in the (rules of humanitarian law)? If the media can play and effective role in addressing current gaps and filling them, and reforming the statutory rules of the humanitarian law? To this end, the present research used an analytical-descript method, along with the information databases, library resources and reviews, for making an exploration into the matter. The conclusion is that the media serves as a communication means and makes the mass remain informed about the shortcomings and gaps in body of the international human rights law through disseminating the information in a correct way. Additionally, as a matter of commitment and mission, the media may give the statesmen and politicians timey warnings of the existing gaps in the principles contained in the general text of the human rights law and provide proper grounds which are required for protecting civil persons (for example, journalists and reporters) at critical times like the wartime.