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Dermot Groome - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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child soldiers both victims and combatants is there anything ihl can do
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Dermot GroomeAbstract:The proliferation of child soldiers has raised a number of troubling questions for the laws of war. These children are the victims of international crimes committed by those who unlawfully enlist and deploy them. These children are also “combatants” under international law and like all combatants they lose the many protections afforded civilians. Apart from the physical and psychological harm caused to children by exposure to combat, child soldiers have also been the intentional victims of crimes perpetrated by members of the armed formation that incorporated them. Crimes specifically directed at them such as rape, sexual slavery and Inhuman Treatment. Some children have been summarily executed for indiscipline or attempting to escape. Yet, others have been used as disposable weapons in an emerging trend to use children as suicide bombers, sometimes remotely detonated by their adult handlers.This article examines the unique situation of child soldiers, and the several simultaneous yet inconsistent characterizations they embody. A child soldier can be at the same time: a lawful target of the enemy, an individual with the potential to commit international crimes, a victim of the international offense of child conscription and finally, often the intended victim of other acts constituting war crimes but for their unlawful conscription. This article examines the relevant laws and customs of war and questions whether International Humanitarian Law’s (IHL) rigid binary classification of actors as either combatants or civilians appropriately reflects the reality for children, the most vulnerable victims of contemporary conflicts.The article makes the argument that IHL must develop a third status in addition to the combatant/civilian distinction. A hybrid status for children unlawfully incorporated into an armed force or group. This hybrid status retains the child’s combatant status vis-a-vis belligerent forces as defined by well-established tests, yet treats them as civilians vis-a-vis members of the armed force that has unlawfully incorporated them. Perpetrators of crimes against child soldiers should not be able to strip children of the protections intended for them by committing the crime of unlawful conscription against them. The laws of war should be interpreted to deny them the ability to insulate themselves from criminal liability by virtue of their commission of another crime. There is no theoretical or conceptual barrier preventing an interpretation of IHL that affords children this hybrid status. This proposed hybrid status preserves the clarity necessary for the effective application of IHL and ensures that these children remain within the protections of international law.
Muharremi Robert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From Organ Trafficking to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers: The Strategic Narrative behind the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office
UBT Knowledge Center, 2019Co-Authors: Muharremi RobertAbstract:International justice, the establishment of international criminal tribunals and war crimes trials are influenced by strategic narratives. These narratives are deliberatively designed to advance politically motivated interests and intend to use international justice mechanisms as a useful instrument to legitimize these interests. Part of these interests is to re-write the history of a conflict by framing political actors as criminals and delegitimizing liberation movements as criminal organizations. Against this background, the present article analyzes the Council of Europe Report on “Inhuman Treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo” from the perspective of a strategic narrative, its intention to brand the Kosovo Liberation Army as a criminal organization and its liberation war as a criminal activity, and the impact this narrative had on international public opinion which led to the establishment of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office
Davit Amiryan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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palliative care and human rights in patient care an armenia case study
Public health reviews, 2017Co-Authors: Gabriela Barros De Luca, Violeta Zopunyan, Naomi Burkeshyne, Anahit Papikyan, Davit AmiryanAbstract:This paper examines palliative care within the human rights in patient care framework, which clarifies state obligations and addresses the rights of both patients and providers. In the context of palliative care, these rights extend beyond the right to health and include patient rights to freedom from torture, cruel and Inhuman Treatment, non-discrimination and equality, bodily integrity, privacy and confidentiality, information, and right to a remedy. They also encompass provider rights to decent working conditions, freedom of association, and due process. The paper then looks at a case study of Armenia, acknowledging how the government’s commitment to palliative care, combined with awareness raising and advocacy by human rights organizations, created an enabling environment for the realization of human rights in patient care in the context of palliative care.
Gabriela Barros De Luca - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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palliative care and human rights in patient care an armenia case study
Public health reviews, 2017Co-Authors: Gabriela Barros De Luca, Violeta Zopunyan, Naomi Burkeshyne, Anahit Papikyan, Davit AmiryanAbstract:This paper examines palliative care within the human rights in patient care framework, which clarifies state obligations and addresses the rights of both patients and providers. In the context of palliative care, these rights extend beyond the right to health and include patient rights to freedom from torture, cruel and Inhuman Treatment, non-discrimination and equality, bodily integrity, privacy and confidentiality, information, and right to a remedy. They also encompass provider rights to decent working conditions, freedom of association, and due process. The paper then looks at a case study of Armenia, acknowledging how the government’s commitment to palliative care, combined with awareness raising and advocacy by human rights organizations, created an enabling environment for the realization of human rights in patient care in the context of palliative care.
Ethel E Idialu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the Inhuman Treatment of widows in african communities
2012Co-Authors: Ethel E IdialuAbstract:Widows in Africa have often been faced with traumatic experiences in Africa communities at the instance of losing their husbands which is occasioned by death; the Inhuman Treatment meted on the widows varies from one culture to the other. Most of the Treatments are geared towards dehumanizing their victims which is always a painful and psychological experience that can affect the individual throughout her lifetime. This study pools together a review of widowhood practices from different communities in Africa, an array of harmful widowhood rites in Africa, the way forward; recommendations were also made to help eradicate this unpleasant behavior in our communities.