In the article, author examines peculiarities of implementation norms international humanitarian law into national legislation under martial law, characterizes relevant and draft laws on criminal Ukraine, identifies reasons for not adopting certain in field recommends ways implementing law.

The article explores the intersection between child rights, water scarcity, sanitation, and the human security paradigm. The recognition of child rights has been advanced through the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international legal instruments, while water rights are increasingly affirmed in international law and through the historic July 2010 United Nations General Asse...

exploring the links between law and economic development 2 Global interactions increasingly rely on law to govern them. Today, numerous rules dominate the interactions between states and non-state parties. International courts and dispute settlement mechanisms are in place to ensure compliance with commonly agreed norms. International Law, however, is complex and often lacks universal acceptanc...

preventing or minimizing life and property losses in different wars is the main and the most important aim for armed conflicts law. this branch of law pays attention to achieving this aim through observing military necessities and humanitarian principles simultaneously. military necessities explain the necessity of the war termination and humanitarian principles confine struggling and fighting ...

Cosmopolitans often argue that the international community has a humanitarian responsibility to intervene militarily in order to protect vulnerable individuals from violent threats and to pursue the establishment of a condition of cosmopolitan justice based on the notion of a ‘global rule of law’. The purpose of this article is to argue that many of these cosmopolitan claims are incomplete and ...

Western governments to legitimize a new and sometimes controversial security agenda. The use of humanitarian reasons to justify international military interventions, combined with the fact that the governments involved in these military operations are usually also the main financiers of the humanitarian system, has led to revived discussions among international humanitarian organizations and NG...

1. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2. Senior Scholar,Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA 3. Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 4. Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice, Monash Univ...

this book deals with the evolution of the sanctions policy of the security council arisen as a solution to the problem of disastrous effects of the comprehensive economic sanctions on the civilian populations of the target states. the study shows that the key for resolving the conflict arisen between the purposes of the charter: maintenance of the peace and promoting respect for human rights, l...