I end the post by giving some suggestions about how the data collected by the study may provide rich potential for even further analysis.Īt its heart, the briefing addresses the important and controversial question of when armed groups have obligations under human rights law, which is the subject of my recent book The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (OUP, 2017). In doing so, I explain inter alia why I disagree with the authors’ conclusion that no pattern is discernible in how the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly address armed non State actors.
In order to start this discussion, I highlight a few particular aspects of the report that I find most interesting and valuable. In this blog post, I demonstrate why the briefing – and the data collected in the annexes – is an important addition to knowledge in this area that will facilitate important discussion of this issue amongst policy makers.
In June 2017, the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflicts published a briefing on ‘ Armed Non-State Actors and International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly’.
0 kommentar(er)
