[PDF] Top 20 Distinction and Loss of Civilian Protection in International Armed Conflicts

... expected to be "excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advan tage anticipated."18I nte ntionally launching an attack in the knowledge that it will cause inc[r] ... See full document

... an armed conflict is being fought between state armed forces and the Batari Liberation Army ...Batari civilian population are caught in between, and they are in urgent need of life-saving ... See full document

... contemporary conflicts, almost up to 90 percent of casualties occur among civilians, in which women and children mostly turn out to be the prime ...an armed conflict situation can be explained in a deeper ... See full document

... of armed conflict the distinction between interstate wars and civil wars is losing its value as far as human beings are ...same protection when armed violence has erupted ‘only’ within the ... See full document

... Contemporary Conflicts: Four Challenges for the Geneva Conven- tions and Other Existing Law, 105 A MERICAN J OURNAL OF I NTERNATIONAL L AW 201, 210– 13 (2011) (same); see also Evan ...of armed conflict ... See full document

... leading international or- ganizations (it is referred to such international organizations as the UN, OSCE) in so- lution of the world’s problems today has reduced ...question international agreements ... See full document

... transnational armed conflicts give rise to additional and unique challenges, which derive cumulatively from their being both asymmetric and ...such conflicts can result in a responsibility gap ... See full document

... conflict between the United States and Al-Qaeda should be treated as an “armed conflict not of an international character” within the terms of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. It should be noted, ... See full document

... See International Labour Organization Convention 182 Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999) (entry into force Nov.. a[r] ... See full document

... the loss of even the most valued human life is ultimately less disastrous than the loss of something which in no circumstances can ever be created ... See full document

... recurrent conflicts and conducting semi-structured interviews with practitioners who are informed about the efforts to make the extraction and trade of the natural resources originating from the areas ... See full document

... The Geneva Conventions relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts are, after the United Nations Charter, the most widely accepted international instruments and [r] ... See full document

... in international armed ...an international conflict, LOAC does not provide the source of authority for detention, and that authority must be found in do- mestic law (or perhaps Security Council ... See full document

... of international confl icts, the intermingling of military tasks with supporting ones in operations for the protection of the population (at national and international level), a greater integration of ... See full document

... Geneva Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, 366.. Geneva Protocol, U.S..[r] ... See full document

... the armed forces of one of the parties to the conflict who fall with the hands of the adversary during an international armed ...the armed forces during their captivity an indicated externally ... See full document

... It was not likely to be impressed by the legal dichotomy between international (interstate) and internal armed conflicts so far as the imposition of norms of human[r] ... See full document

... First, the assertion that a significant number of rules contained in the Additional Pro- tocols to the Geneva Co n ventions have achieved the status of customary internat i [r] ... See full document

... * This article focuses only on the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 and attempts to discuss the implications of intemationallaw with respect to [r] ... See full document

... 11. See David P. Fidler, Recent Developments and Revelations Concerning Cybersecurity and Cy- berspace: Implications for International Law, A MERICAN S OCIETY OF I NTERNATIONAL L AW I NSIGHTS (June 20, 2012), ... See full document