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- English
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Child soldiers in international law
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Child soldiers in international law: introduction
- 1 Child soldiers in the world today
- 2 Childhood and children’s rights: changing perceptions
- 3 The UN and child soldiers
- 4 The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: international humanitarian law
- 5 The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: international human rights law
- 6 The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: customary international law and non-state actors
- 7 The legal treatment of child soldiers
- 8 The recruitment of child soldiers as a war crime
- 9 The responsibility of child soldiers for war crimes
- 10 Child soldiers as asylum seekers and refugees
- 11 Child soldiers in international law: conclusions
- Select bibliography
- Index