Securing Compliance with International Humanitarian Law: The Promise and Limits of Contemporary Enforcement Mechanisms

In: Journal of international humanitarian legal studies, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 213-220

Abstract

AbstractThis report highlights several contributions to a recent ICRC sponsored IHL conference on compliance and enforcement. Conference papers addressed a range of contemporary issues including: whether the Human Rights Council has a mandate to examine alleged breaches of IHL; the complementarity debate (IHL/IHRL); the problem of human shields; UN Security Council practice with regard to violations of IHL; and whether IHL should be reformed to provide non-State organised armed groups with greater incentives to comply with IHL during non-international armed conflict.