Non-State actors--like State actors--are increasingly exposed to the threat of accountability and punishment for abuses of human rights. If human rights law has shown itself to be somewhat limited with respect to non-State actors precisely because it is focused on the obligations of the State towards individuals within its jurisdiction, this is not the case when it comes to individual liability for international crimes. The broadening of the scope of the concept of “crimes against humanity” and war crimes in recent years, so as to include acts committed in time of non-international armed conflict, has been of decisive importance in this respect. As the judges at Nuremberg observed in condemning the Nazi leaders for their atrocities: “[c]ri...
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides limits to the conduct of warring parties during armed ...
In areas throughout the world, citizens have been subject to torture and murder during civil wars an...
The question of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) provides for the power of detention to ...
Non-State actors--like State actors--are increasingly exposed to the threat of accountability and pu...
Non-State actors--like State actors--are increasingly exposed to the threat of accountability and pu...
The international society of the 21st century has made it imperative to eliminate impunity for inter...
Three core crimes have emerged as a part of the jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals: wa...
Non-international armed conflicts are defined as conflicts that have crossed a certain threshold of ...
Numerous forms of non-state actor conduct in violation of treaty- based and customary in...
Internal armed conflicts are today the more common mode of warfare and a growing concern for the int...
The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern. Human rights activi...
War crimes are among the most serious crimes; that is why international courts and tribunals have ju...
The protection regimes of international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (...
The recognition of individual criminal responsibility under international law is relatively recent. ...
In a security landscape characterised by the changing nature of armed conflicts and the proliferatio...
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides limits to the conduct of warring parties during armed ...
In areas throughout the world, citizens have been subject to torture and murder during civil wars an...
The question of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) provides for the power of detention to ...
Non-State actors--like State actors--are increasingly exposed to the threat of accountability and pu...
Non-State actors--like State actors--are increasingly exposed to the threat of accountability and pu...
The international society of the 21st century has made it imperative to eliminate impunity for inter...
Three core crimes have emerged as a part of the jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals: wa...
Non-international armed conflicts are defined as conflicts that have crossed a certain threshold of ...
Numerous forms of non-state actor conduct in violation of treaty- based and customary in...
Internal armed conflicts are today the more common mode of warfare and a growing concern for the int...
The threats to human rights posed by non-state actors are of increasing concern. Human rights activi...
War crimes are among the most serious crimes; that is why international courts and tribunals have ju...
The protection regimes of international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (...
The recognition of individual criminal responsibility under international law is relatively recent. ...
In a security landscape characterised by the changing nature of armed conflicts and the proliferatio...
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides limits to the conduct of warring parties during armed ...
In areas throughout the world, citizens have been subject to torture and murder during civil wars an...
The question of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) provides for the power of detention to ...