[PDF] Protection Of The Rights Of Women In Armed Conflicts Situation eBook

Author : Oladimeji Falade
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Release : 2023
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Historically, the society has deprived women of many rights. The proclivity of armed conflicts have made women a major victim vulnerable to the actions of belligerents and combatants such as rape, sexual violence etc. Pregnant, nursing and aged women are also exposed to vices in respective of their conditions. Several laws protect rights of vulnerable persons (including women) during armed conflicts, including the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocol I, II and III of 1977. Are the laws effective enough to protect women's rights? How effective are the mechanisms set up to enforce the laws? This long essay examines the rights of women in armed conflicts; the effectiveness and shortcomings of the laws and mechanisms giving protection, and the method of implementing such laws. In achieving a critical analysis of the breach of women's rights in armed conflicts and the necessary laws and mechanisms thereto, reference was made to relevant legislations, case-laws, books, journals, online articles, newspapers and interviews. This provides a deeper insight and understanding into the rights of women and the effectiveness of the laws protecting their rights. It has been discovered that despite the wealth of laws and mechanisms aiming to protect women rights in armed conflicts, it has had an inconsequential effect. Women are still major victims of armed conflicts. Putting a stop to the vices require not just any law, but a well thought out and thorough set of laws providing for changing circumstances and a properly structured means of executing the laws with necessary autonomy, power and means given to them. The international community must address the issue of women in armed conflicts with more tenacity and enthusiasm. Women must cease to be used as tools in gaining advantage over the enemy in armed conflicts through war vices. They must be protected! Women are not lesser humans, they too have rights. The international community must do something fast!

Author : Catherine O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108628311

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Laws and norms that focus on women's lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the United Nations Security Council. While separate institutions, with differing powers of monitoring and enforcement, implement these laws and norms, the activities of regimes overlap. Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law is the first book to account for this pluralism and institutional diversity. This book identifies key aspects of how different regimes regulate women's rights in conflict, and how they interact. Using country case studies to reveal the practical implications of the fragmented protection of women's rights in conflict, this book offers a dynamic account of how regimes and institutions interact, the extent to which they reinforce each other, and the tensions and gaps in regulation that emerge.

Author : Judith G. Gardam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004482008

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The role that gender plays in determining the experience of those caught up in armed conflict has long been overlooked. Moreover, the extent to which gender influences the international legal regime designed to address the humanitarian problems arising from armed conflict has similarly been ignored. In the early 1990s, prompted by extensive media coverage of the rape of women during the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina, the international community was forced to critically examine the capacity of international law to respond to such crimes. The prevalence of sexual violence, is, however, merely one aspect of the distinctive impact of conflict on women. Although a range of factors influence the way individual women experience armed conflict, the endemic gender discrimination that exists in all societies is a common theme: from Cambodia, where women land-mine victims are less likely to receive treatment for their injuries than are men; to South Africa, where women widowed during the Apartheid years have become outcasts in their own society. To date, the extent to which international law addresses the myriad of ways in which women are affected by armed conflict has received little attention. This work takes the experience of women of armed conflict, matches it with existing provisions of international law, and investigates reasons for the silence of the latter in relation to these events for women. It is the first broad-based critique of international humanitarian law from a gender perspective. The contribution of the United Nations, through its focus on human rights, to improving the protection of women in armed conflict is also considered. The authors underscore the need for new approaches to the issue of women and armed conflict, and canvass a range of options for moving forward.

Author : Jamille Bigio
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0876096895

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The next U.S. administration should require women’s representation and meaningful participation in conflict resolution and postconflict processes, increase investment in efforts that promote women’s inclusion, reform U.S. diplomatic and security practices to incorporate the experiences of women in conflict-affected countries, improve staffing and coordination to deliver on government commitments, strengthen training on incorporating women in security efforts, and promote accountability. These steps will help the United States respond effectively to security threats around the world, improve the sustainability of peace agreements, and advance U.S. interests.

Author : R. Charli Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317116593

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Examining the influence of gender constructs on the international regime protecting war-affected civilians, R. Charli Carpenter examines how in practice belligerents, advocates and humanitarian players interpret civilian immunity so as to leave adult civilian men and older boys at grave risk in conflict zones. Providing a wealth of ground-breaking case studies, the author argues that in order to understand the way in which laws of war are implemented and promoted in international society we must understand how gender ideas affect the principle of civilian immunity. Each case study demonstrates the importance of assumptions about gender relations in shaping international politics, and in developing a framework for incorporating an attention to gender into the often gender-blind scholarship on international norms. As such, this book will be of interest to international relations theorists and to human rights scholars, students and activists alike.

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Release : 2020
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Fragmented Protection of Women's Rights in Conflict: an Introduction The regulation of women's rights in conflict has travelled a great distance since initial feminist interventions into international law, which identified a 'masculine world' of international law with reinforcing organisational and normative structural factors that excluded women from its practice and women's lives from its areas of concern. States have agreed to limit the lawful conduct of armed conflict - including against female combatants and civilians - under international humanitarian law (IHL), and provided for international criminal jurisdiction over individuals bearing greatest responsibility for the most serious violations of these laws perpetrated against women. The extent to which states can limit the human rights of women, even in times of violent conflict, has been negotiated, litigated and interpreted in various instruments, consensus and interpretative documents grouped under international human rights law (IHRL)"

Author : Michael Bothe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199658803

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The third edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.

Author : Charlotte Lindsey-Curtet
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Humanitarian law
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"This ICRC study is an extensive reference document on the impact of armed conflict on the lives of women. Taking as its premise the needs of women, e.g. physical safety, access to health care, food and shelter, in situations of armed conflict, the study explores the problems faced by women in wartime and the coping mechanisms they employ. A thorough analysis of international humanitarian law, and to a lesser extent human rights and refugee law, was carried out as a means to assess the protection afforded to women through these bodies of law. The study also includes a review of the ICRC's operational response to the needs of women as victims of armed conflict."--Publisher.

Author : Helen Durham
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004143653

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Demonstrates that women are taking on increasingly less traditional roles during war, and that these roles are multifaceted, complicated and sometimes contradictory. Reveals that women's requirements during times of war will continue to be inadequate so long as we continue silencing the differing perspectives. Australian editors.

Author : Ziba Vaghri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030846474

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This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and identify the main features that need to be taken into consideration when assessing a State’s progressive implementation of the UNCRC. This analysis considers which aspects of a given right are most important to track, in order to monitor States' implementation of any given right, and whether there is any resultant change in the lives of children. This approach transforms the narrative of legal international standards concerning a given right into a set of characteristics that ensure no aspect of said right is overlooked. The book develops a clear and comprehensive understanding of the UNCRC that can be used as an introduction to the rights and principles it contains, and to identify directions for future policy and strategy development in compliance with the UNCRC. As such, it offers an invaluable reference guide for researchers and students in the field of childhood and children’s rights studies, as well as a wide range of professionals and organisations concerned with the subject.