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Wartime Environmental Pollution And Endangerment: The Landmine Scourge And The Global Effort To Eliminate It, Theresa Oby Ilegbune
Wartime Environmental Pollution And Endangerment: The Landmine Scourge And The Global Effort To Eliminate It, Theresa Oby Ilegbune
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
The principal purpose of this paper is to discuss the legal aspects of the global efforts to ban and eliminate landmines. In doing this, it is considered necessary to explain what landmines are; the nature and extent of security, social and environmental problems posed by landmines; the history and development of the international campaign to adopt a treaty banning landmines; and efforts made, and still being made, to implement that treaty. In these discussions, Nigeria will be used as a case study.
Child Soldiers And Peace Agreements, Rose Mukhar
Child Soldiers And Peace Agreements, Rose Mukhar
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
This paper will explore and analyze the relationship between child soldiers and peace processes. It will address the protections offered – or lack thereof – by human rights and international humanitarian law to child soldiers in armed conflicts. In particular, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) is specifically addressed because the DRC conflict from 1996 to 2002 can most likely be classified as a non-international armed conflict – which is what most of today’s conflicts are deemed; also because the numerous peace treaties from this time frame primarily failed to provide a lasting peace in the …
Fighting The War On Terrorism With The Legal System: A Defense Of Military Commissions, Jessica Erin Tannenbaum
Fighting The War On Terrorism With The Legal System: A Defense Of Military Commissions, Jessica Erin Tannenbaum
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
In early 2002, the United States began transporting prisoners captured in Afghanistan to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Almost immediately, an uproar broke out over the detention of prisoners there. The United States was, and continues to be, almost universally criticized by the international community for its handling of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The most common criticisms are of the detention of accused terrorists without charges and the indefinite detention of non-citizens certified as dangers to national security as authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act. Although all of the issues regarding the detention of prisoners in the War …