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How Humanitarian and Human Rights Law Shape Conflicts Within States

Bratislava Law Review
This paper explores the legal status of non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) under international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL).
Adnan Mahmutovic
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REGULILE APLICABILE RECRUTĂRII COPIILOR-SOLDAŢI ÎN DREPTUL INTERNAŢIONAL UMANITAR

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2009
All members of a society suffer the consequences of armed conflicts in their area. However, the magnitude of these consequences for vulnerable groups, especially children, is often poorly understood.
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Revisiting Enhanced Protection: Implications from a Practical Case Study

Santander Art & Culture Law Review
The 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) created a new legal framework to improve protection for the world’s most ...
Emma Cunliffe
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The protection of detainees in non-international armed conflict under international humanitarian law and Islamic law

International Review of the Red Cross
Too often, conflict-related detainees are ill-treated or killed, go missing, or are held in inhumane conditions of detention. Detention occurs in all armed conflicts, including those that involve Muslim-majority States and Islamic non-State armed groups.
Ahmed Al-Dawoody, Tilman Rodenhäuser
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The limits of law in a post-Westphalian world: the legal and political status of powerful non-state armed actors—a comparative study of Hezbollah and the Houthis

Frontiers in Political Science
This article investigates the profound challenges posed by powerful, sub-state armed actors to the international legal system and the traditional Westphalian concept of state sovereignty.
Khaled Mohammad Khwaileh
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The dead and missing in armed conflict: Protections set out in the judgments of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights

International Review of the Red Cross
In their analyses of specific cases involving armed conflict, the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have acted as monitoring bodies for international humanitarian law (IHL) by factoring that body of law into ...
Juana María Ibáñez Rivas
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Through the Lens of the ICJ: Bridging the Gap between Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms in Global Child Soldiering

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
Recently in June 2022, the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict expressed that the ongoing use and recruitment of children in armed conflict globally warrants "international concern ...
Nikita Govender
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Yemen’s Houthis

Trento Student Law Review
This paper examines the legal and geopolitical complexities surrounding the rise of the Houthis in Yemen’s ongoing conflict. It provides a historical overview of the group’s evolution and assesses their classification under international law.
Lucas Procópio Sant’Anna
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Dignity in death: International humanitarian law and the protection of the deceased in war

International Review of the Red Cross
When people die in the context of armed conflicts, international humanitarian law (IHL) provides important legal protection for the dead and their families.
Helen Obregón Gieseken, Ximena Londoño
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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARMED CONFLICT AND THE PLACE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

International Studies Journal
This study investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in ensuring accountability for human rights violations within contemporary armed conflicts.
AGBO SOPHIA ABUH
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