Introduction Exposure to armed conflict has manifold implications for both military and civilian populations. Prenatal stress has detrimental effects on both obstetric outcomes, fetal development and the development of an individual later in life. As well as causing stress to the mother, armed conflicts can decimate local infrastructures making it increasingly difficult to access antenatal and ...

Examining the situations of Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, this article demonstrates how individuals living outside control de jure government struggle to access birth registration civil status documentation in times non-international armed conflict. Evaluating right legal identity is protected international law, highlights need for be better conflict, so that its conferral denial not used as a weapo...

Child recruitment is an ancient military concept but a modern legal term. The term defined as war crime and includes the acts of conscription, enrolment or use children below age 15 during armed conflict. According to 2018 report UN Secretary General, most violations documented against conflicts, in 2017, were perpetrated by Muslims majority cases use. Meanwhile, Islam guarantees human rights s...

Armed conflicts have changed in complexity and nature over the past few decades magnifying health challenges for children. Conflict impacts children's health in four important ways. First, conflict‐driven displacement increases child death and injury, mainly through increased susceptibility to infectious disease from unsanitary living conditions. A case study on Southern Sudan illustrates that ...

The normative and practical value of protecting civilians during armed conflicts respecting the exercise human rights fundamental freedoms even in international is an undeniable one. Changing forms means used struggles leads to violations provisions humanitarian law. case-law European Court Human Rights case Georgia v. Russia has made a connection between included Convention for Protection Fund...

Abstract René Provost’s latest book, Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents , collects an impressive amount practice organized armed groups concerning the administration justice in conflicts, and offers a detailed analysis legal issues surrounding creation functioning insurgent courts. Drawing from field work adopting pluralistic methodology, Provost comprehensive overv...

As one of the world’s last remaining strongholds of unexploited resources, tropical forests often serve as a point of contention as they become the focus of social, ecological, political and economic changes. Poor management of forest resources and the absence of an established set of equitable sharing principles among contending parties lead to shifts in resource access and control. Resulting ...

Humanitarian access is a crucial element of humanitarian action in situations armed conflict since it impossible to provide direct assistance without it. The right victims fundamental allows aid organizations make an independent assessment needs, ensure the effectiveness their activities and monitor fair distribution such aid. However, gaining maintaining population difficult for organizations....