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The Use of CBRN Weapons in Armed Conflict
2022
The contribution deals with the use of CBRN weapons in the context of hostilities.
Occupazione militare e tutela della proprietŕ privata
2012
Moving from the complementary relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, this article analyses the issue of private property in occupied territory from the civilians perspective. In the attempt to verify if contemporaneous practice has modified customary international law obligations of Occupying Powers, the Author highlights the complex and heterogeneous evolution of the protection of the right to private property. On the one hand, practice confirms the strengthening of its safeguard by the extensive interpretation of the absolute prohibition on confiscation, forbidding an occupying power to take "permanent" measures of dispossession and de fact…
Terrorism in Argentina: government as its own worst enemy
2005
International Law, War and Human Rights: The Humanitarian Response
2013
One of the most important issues in the international political and legal system comprises the interaction between human rights and humanitarian law. In particular, the separate treatment of such areas of law allows to delineate different contents and application procedures, while the joint consideration is not simple, in view of the reasons for which each of the two has been created. Humanitarian law is a set of rules of conduct limited to a political and legal situation pathological, and presumably temporary. Against this regulatory system, the international law of human rights is the establishment of a political and legal concept of man as endowed with certain inalienable rights that con…
HUMAN RIGHTS AND CHANGES TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM
2012
In the context of international law, the central role of the international law of human rights is controversial. In this article relationship between Humanitarian Law and Human Rights are observed from the point of view of their integration even with difficulties.
Human Rights and Changes to the International Legal System. Philosophical Reflections on the (Difficult) Coexistence of International Humanitarian La…
2012
Chapter 6 analyses the relationship between International human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law (IHL). IHL represents the new version of a part of the old ius gentium, in particular its ius in bello. Nonetheless, IHL excludes ius ad bellum, formerly linked to ius in bello in ius gentium, in continuity with the Just War Theory. The current IHL is characterized by neutrality, impartiality, and humanity in protecting victims. The practice of IHRL – not the abstract doctrine of natural rights – aims to protect human beings in different contexts and against different forms of vulnerability. In this last sense, IHL could be seen as a part of the former in the case of vulnerab…
DIHum 2022-2023. Unit 2. International Human Rights Law. From classical IL to contemporary IL
2023
Powerpoint del tema 2 de la asignatura "International Humanitarian Law", curso académico 22-23 1. Historical background to the international protection of Human Rights. 2. Human Rights in the Charter of the United Nations. 3. International protection of human rights at the universal level: the work of the United Nations. 1. Historical background to the international protection of Human Rights. 2. Human Rights in the Charter of the United Nations. 3. International protection of human rights at the universal level: the work of the United Nations.
DIHum. 21-22. Unit 4. The international protection of HR at the regional level: the work of the Council of Europe
2022
Powerpoint del tema 4 de la asignatura "International Humanitarian Law", curso académico 2021-2022 1. General ideas. 2. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950 and its Protocols. 3. The European Social Charter of 1961 and its Protocols. 4. Other Conventions for the protection of Human Rights.
DIHum. Unit 10. International Criminal Responsibility of the individual
2021
Powerpoint del tema 10 de la asignatura International humanitarian law, curso académico 2020-2021 1. General ideas. 2. International criminal tribunals. 3. international crimes
Intervention in Yemen in 2015: assessing the alleged violations of international humanitarian law by Saudi-Led coalition in Yemen conflict
2020
Importance of international humanitarian law has emerged significantly in last two decades, becoming as the primary legal source, which is used as the pre-emptive measure of restricting international actors from indiscriminate actions and use of prohibited weapons with regulating the entire conduct of war. Saudi-led intervention in Yemen has become a vivid example of how the well-established legal rules can become irrelevant, because of the wrong approach, that was taken by respective parties to serve its political interests, while neglecting its legal obligations. Despite the emerged conflict of interests between the law and politics, International Humanitarian Law concerning Yemen conflic…