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Human Rights Law

2016

University of Georgia School of Law

United Nations

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The International Court And South West Africa: Latest Phase, Antony J.M. Zuijdwijk Jun 2016

The International Court And South West Africa: Latest Phase, Antony J.M. Zuijdwijk

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Discussion On Ideology And The Use Of Force, Larman C. Wilson, John Howell, Leslie Road Apr 2016

Discussion On Ideology And The Use Of Force, Larman C. Wilson, John Howell, Leslie Road

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Securing Child Rights In Time Of Conflict, Diane Marie Amann Jan 2016

Securing Child Rights In Time Of Conflict, Diane Marie Amann

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Each term in the title of this essay seems simple, yet provides much food for analytical thought. The essay thus explores: what is “conflict,” and whether there is a “time” when it is not present; who is a “child”; whether and to what extent children enjoy “rights”; and, finally, how local, national, and international regimes go about “securing” those rights. The essay – based on a talk given at the 2015 International Law Weekend in New York – concludes with a glance at a new potential avenue for child security: the Sustainable Development Goals which the U.N. General Assembly adopted …


Children, Diane Marie Amann Jan 2016

Children, Diane Marie Amann

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This chapter, which appears in The Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law (William A. Schabas ed. 2016), discusses how international criminal law instruments and institutions address crimes against and affecting children. It contrasts the absence of express attention in the post-World War II era with the multiple provisions pertaining to children in the 1998 Statute of the International Criminal Court. The chapter examines key judgments in that court and in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, as well as the ICC’s current, comprehensive approach to the effects that crimes within its jurisdiction have on children. The chapter concludes with a …