Essays about: "Direct Participation in Hostilities"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words Direct Participation in Hostilities.

1. 6. Girls Used in Armed Conflict – An analysis of the protection of girls, associated with armed groups or forces, through prohibitions on using children in armed conflict

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Sara Hansson; [2018]
   Keywords : Child soldiers; International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; International Human Rights; Children used in armed conflict; Gender and war; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Since the 1970s, the practice of conscripting, enlisting or recruiting children into armed groups or forces has become increasingly common, and many children are used for various tasks in conflicts around the globe. Children are easily persuaded or forced into such armed groups or forces, and they suffer great harm from exposure to violence. READ MORE

3. 7. Asymmetric warfare and challenges for international humanitarian law : Civilian direct participation in hostilities and state response

   University essay from Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Frida Lindström; [2012]
   Keywords : Asymmetric warfare; international humanitarian law; direct participation in hostilities; civilians; targeted killings; detentions; continuous combat function;

   Abstract : Most conflicts today are asymmetric, meaning that the parties differ in terms of qualitative and quantitative strenght. The definition of asymmetric warfare used in this thesis is when one party to the conflict is a non state-actor seeking to defeat a state opponent by using means and methods that are prohibited under international humanitarian law. READ MORE

4. 8. The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Was it Lawful?

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

   Author : Amanda Elfström; [2012]
   Keywords : Target; ICCPR; Use of force; self-defence; anticipatory self-defence; unwilling; unable; Human Right to Life; Arbitrary Deprivation of Life; Jus ad bellum; jus in bello; Distinction; Global War on Terror; GWOT; Extraterritorial Applicability; Direct Participation in Hostilities; Geographical Scope; Armed Conflict; Temporal Scope; Continuous Combat Function; IHL; IHRL; HR; International Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law; Osama bin Laden; al Qaeda; International Armed Conflict; Non-International Armed Conflict;

   Abstract : The main purpose of this work is to investigate if the US ́s killing of Osama bin Laden on 2 May 2011 in Abbottabad in Pakistan was lawful. The background to the killing is what happened on 11 September 2001 when four US airplanes were hijacked and crashed into World Trade Center and Pentagon. READ MORE