Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law write by Windell Nortje. This book was released on 2019-07-05. Child Soldiers and the Defence of Duress under International Criminal Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the use of duress as a defence in international criminal law, specifically in cases of child soldiers. The prosecution of children for international crimes often only focuses on whether children can and should be prosecuted under international law. However, it is rarely considered what would happen to these children at the trial stage. This work offers a nuanced approach towards international prosecution and considers how children could be implicated and defended in international courts. This study will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in international criminal law, transitional justice and children’s rights.
Child soldiers in international law
Child soldiers in international law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child soldiers in international law write by Matthew Happold. This book was released on 2022-12-20. Child soldiers in international law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available as an eBook for the first time, this 2005 title in the Melland Schill series asks: Can the use of children as soldiers be effectively regulated at an international level? Child soldiers in international law examines how international law has developed to deal with this problematic and emotive issue. Happold looks at the rules restricting the recruitment of children into armed forces - rules which, though important, are often flouted - but also at the wider legal issues arising from child soldiering: to what extent can child soldiers be held criminally liable for their conduct? How should they be treated when captured? How are states obliged to demobilise and reintegrate them into their societies? It also identifies a move away towards enforcement, through the prosecution of those who recruit child soldiers, and proposals for Security Council sanctions against governments and groups who breach their international obligations by using children in armed conflicts. This study will be essential reading for those concerned with public international law, human rights, and the United Nations and peacekeeping.
Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace
Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace write by Leonie Steinl. This book was released on 2017-08-19. Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and instead focuses exclusively on their role as victims. While it might seem as though the discourse is therefore beneficial for child soldiers as it protects them from blame and responsibility, it is important to realize that the so-called passive victim narrative entails various adverse consequences, which can hinder the successful reintegration of child soldiers into their families, communities and societies. This book aims to address this dilemma. First, the available options for dealing with child soldiers’ participation in crimes under international law, such as transitional justice and criminal justice, and their shortcomings are analyzed in depth. Subsequently a new approach is developed towards achieving accountability in a child-adequate way, which is called restorative transitional justice. This book is in the first place aimed at researchers with an interest in child soldiers, children and armed conflict, as well as international criminal law, transitional justice, juvenile justice, restorative justice, children’s rights, and international human rights law. Secondly, professionals working on issues of transitional justice, juvenile justice, international criminal law, children’s rights, and the reintegration of child soldiers will also find the subject matter of great relevance to their practice. Dr. Leonie Steinl, LL.M. (Columbia) is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity
The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity write by Sonja C. Grover. This book was released on 2021-08-01. The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses age-based persecution of children as a crime against humanity in connection with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (persecution - with some variation in the elements of the crime - is an existing offence under the Rome Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court, the statutes of various international criminal tribunals i.e. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and under the statutes of other international criminal courts (i.e. the Special Court of Sierra Leone)). The book introduces a completely original concept in international criminal law, however, in discussing age-based persecution of children as an international crime against humanity where (i) the particular discrete child collective is targeted ‘as such’ for international atrocity crimes or (ii) individual children are targeted based on their age-based group identity as it intersects with other perpetrator – targeted characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, religion etc.
Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer
Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer write by Sonja C. Grover. This book was released on 2012-01-05. Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an original legal analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of the genocidal forcible transfer of children. Legal argument is made regarding the lack of criminal culpability of such child soldier 'recruits' for conflict-related international crimes and the inapplicability of currently recommended judicial and non-judicial accountability mechanisms in such cases. The book challenges various anthropological accounts of child soldiers' alleged 'tactical agency' to resist committing atrocity as members of armed groups or forces committing mass atrocity and/or genocide. Also provided are original interpretations of relevant international law including an interpretation of the Rome Statute age-based exclusion from prosecution of persons who were under 18 at the time of perpetrating the crime as substantive law setting an international standard for the humane treatment of child soldiers.
