This conversation deals with non-state groups involved in armed conflicts who challenge international humanitarian law, and features examples from Afghanistan.
Bio
Julius Anderegg
Julius Anderegg is Swiss Consul General.
Annyssa Bellal
Annyssa Bellal holds a Ph.D. in public international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and she is currently a senior researcher at the Geneva Academy of International law and Human Rights. She worked as a legal advisor for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs within the Directorate of Public international law, where she dealt with human rights and counter-terrorism issues.
Her current research areas of interest focus on the problem of the ownership of international humanitarian norms by armed non state actors as well as the issue of immunity in the case of gross human rights violations.
Kirk Boyd
Kirk Boyd is Executive Director of the 2048 Project at UC Berkeley School of Law. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara, as well as a JD, LLM, and JSD from UC Berkeley.
He has been a litigator with Morrison & Forester and a partner in the firm Boyd, Huffman, Williams and Urla, litigating primarily civil rights and environmental law cases in courts of all levels, including the United States Supreme Court. Boyd has taught at UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley, including courses on International Human Rights, International Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and First Amendment.
Gilles Giacca
Gilles Giacca is an expert in the field of economic and social rights within the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He prepares courses on economic and social rights for graduate students of international law and is himself writing his doctoral thesis on the implementation of economic, social, and cultural rights in armed conflict situations.
His fields of interest focus on collective security, post-conflict peacebuilding, human rights law, humanitarian law, and refugee law.
Series of four international agreements (1864, 1906, 1929, 1949) signed in Geneva, Switz., that established the humanitarian principles by which the signatory countries are to treat an enemy's military and civilian nationals in wartime. The first convention was initiated by Jean-Henri Dunant; it established that medical facilities were not to be war targets, that hospitals should treat all wounded impartially, that civilians aiding the wounded should be protected, and that the Red Cross symbol should serve to identify those covered by the agreement. The second convention amended and extended the first. The third stated that prisoners of war should be treated humanely and that prison camps should be open to inspection by neutral countries. The 1949 conventions made further provisions for civilians falling into a belligerent's hands. Guerrilla combatants were extended protection in two 1977 amendments, which the U.S. did not sign. Violations of the Geneva Conventions were among the crimes included in the jurisdictions of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (1993) and Rwanda (1994) and the International Criminal Court (2002). See alsoHague Conventions; war crime.
Now YOU KNOW that Humans are Sacrificed for Profits on a GLOBAL SCALE, No Human rights in a One world Rule. Corporate Dictatorship knows only profits no social responsibility, you donīt hear about the 11 killed by BP on the oil rig in the gulf, Senate passed a bill that gives corporations the same rights as a human individual, Robots are next People Humanity as organic entity is on itīs last leg! Ha Ha Thaks for the talk Foratv the greatest. To know the truth, you have to test it, grab your TSA security personīs crotch when they touch your junk, watch how fast they pound on you, that is the truth, lift your hands over your head like in 1984 by George Orwell, while being naked body scanned Radiate or get raped just like afghanistan, What you do to others you do to yourself, so bomb Iraq, Afghanistan and expect cavity checks at home, Yes what goes around comes around especially when your scared. FEAR rules America, Ha Ha think about it, itīs a no brainer, or is, USA STUCK ON STUPID. Thank You
Reminds me of the Jews, Holocaust, were waiting for INTERNATIONAL LAW to save them.
1948 Jews in the new State were hoping for International support not just words,
167 Arabs attack Israel, where is the International Laws, only on PAPER never applied, Womens rights are going backwards like in Iran, Turkey, AFRICA, CHINA BURMA; etc.
Holocaust few learned look USA supports Abbas Of Palestinians, to negotiate with Israel, JOKE, ABBASīS Masters thesis was "Holocaust never happened" you expect him to negotiate recognize the Jewish State. WAKE UP THE CALAMITY IS HERE NOW. Simple the ambassador of Bolivia asked, To United Nations recently,
for the basic right for all Humans to clean water, access to clean water a birth right. HA HA The USA spear headed 38 countries like Canada said NO BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER, therefore voted it down Bolivian Ambassador in tears. That should tell you how these people are full of themselves all talk thats all! SHAMEFULL!
1941 what a JOKE this is when to Americans were doing medical experiments on Guatemala citizens , blacks in prison and military blacks had no rights, no voting for blacks, in 1945.
Truth is the first casualty in armed conflict, the charter was a lie,right from beginning, like being against slavery but owning a few,
Saudi Arabiaīs Human rights bill was signed in 1962 AND IT LEFT OUT WOMEN. Today 12000 child slaves-soldiers,. Obama waved the no child soldier aid act for Sudan and Nigeria. Human rights for Haitians NEVER HAPPEN, USA exiled two presidents elected by the people, and replaced by a military coup, raped and killed thousands, and that was supported by american military. Regan the butcher of Nicaragua, who supported the General in Chile killed 30,000 people supported by USA, Panama, Honduras are all recent American puppets through military armed conflicts where human rights are NO WHERE. Tell the truth. USA false flag to go to war, bay of Token Vietnam killed 1.3 million viet people, 55,000 American soldiers DEAD, 120,00 permanently injured, all on a lie, false flag Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction, Now Obama kills by Drones more killings in his first year than all of Bushīs 8 years. USA SHAMEFUL human rights record, Saudi and Chinese have the same record except they mostly kill their own, USA kills other people in their own land Afghanistan, PAKISTAN, yEMEN. Kill teams take trophies,WHISTLE BLOWER Wikileaks being harrassed by USA military for exposing the Lies and killings. Bush admits He tortures and would do it again, selling books.WHO is a good human rights role model, 27 Muslim countries no rights for Women, no rights for AfRicans in the Congo, Sudan ETC ETC, all over africa women children being raped , even Clintonīs Rawanda has not bee settled. Burma killing monks, North Korea bombing South Korea. FACE IT THERE ARE NO HUMAN RIGHTS YOU CAN COUNT ON THAT! SHAMEFULL, thanks Foratv.
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The "international armed conflict" definition does not take into consideration situations where a State is militarily and internationally involved in another State with or without that State's consent and/or against any particular group within or without that State...and who gets to define who/what is inside a State and who/what is outside?..certainly not-humanitarian law unless for instance Indigenous American tribes are not human ...neither does it, definition, consider for example war such as waged against other State(s) using tactics incl. but not limited to an internationally condemned and illegal blockade, an act of war in itself causing massive human rights violations..neo-colonialism say for example the United States' involvement in Chiapas, Mexico?..or say for instance its military involvement in Honduras with the last coup?..is there an int'l armed conflict in the Amazon? are Amazonian tribes experiencing an "international armed conflict" and are they, the invisibles, inside a State?...even if we cannot see them?..scale and duration??...if by now, only 500 years, they have not experienced an int'l armed conflict then they sure never will.
... "if the UN has legitimized the action then its not per say an armed conflict"...and finally- 'irrespective of what the gov might say..etc..etc..'-thx anyway
-"99% of armed conflicts take place within a State territory" seems a highly superficial explanation.
Afghanistan a peace op?
Political? everything is. Your definition of what you think an "int'l armed conflict" entails IS political. It involves distribution of resources. The fact that you are based in Switzerland does too, of course.
Nice show!
Human rights and the concept is a dream of few and far between. No weapon dealer in other words european central bankers. laugh and can hide behind Human rights organizations. So in other words the idea of human rights will not
change the IMF and that's that!.
I did not watch the entire broadcast but the part of Ms. Bellal's contribution and I whole heartedly agree. This document could very well be the cornerstone, the starting point of the process of dismantlement of the conflict. There seems to be a greater emphasis on "human beings" than "peoples as instruments of religion." If any two sides fighting each other can be brought to the point of agreeing on "the Golden Rule" - common established respect for each other as members of the same species - there's room for improvement in those relations.
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