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Targeted Drone Killings Under International Human Rights Law

Targeted killings by unmanned aircraft are a dangerous means that threaten the human right to life, both in wartime and in peacetime. In wartime, international humanitarian law prohibits weapons that cannot respect general principles such as discrimination, proportionality and military necessities. In peacetime, all international instruments guaranteeing the protection of human rights prohibit attacks on the right to life, except in cases provided for by law, as well as extrajudicial executions.

 

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Publication Date
Sat Aug 20 2022
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
The crime of ethnic cleansing under international criminal law

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forcible removal of ethnic and religious groups from a specific area, with the intent of making the area ethnically homogeneous. Direct deportation is accompanied by genocide, rape, and destruction of property, so the crime of ethnic cleansing can be considered a crime against humanity and can be included in the Genocide Convention.

Ethnic extremism is a concept linked to the use of violence and weapons by a strong party against a weaker party. Extremism and fanaticism are often behind such a crime with the aim of obliterating or concealing the oppressed group in a particular geographical area.

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Tue Dec 21 2021
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
International protection for human rights activists

Despite the primary role of governments in assuming the primary responsibility in protecting human rights in accordance with international human rights standards and instruments, they are not the only party responsible for ensuring the implementation of those rights. Individuals themselves have a duty towards their society to observe, respect and promote those rights and freedoms and work to protect them by means. All, and this is confirmed by Paragraph (1) of Article (29) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which states: “Every individual has duties towards the society in which it is only possible for his personality to grow freely and fully.            &nbs

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Sat Aug 20 2022
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Journal Of Legal Sciences
The Constitutional and Legal Basis of National Human Rights Institutions in Iraq and their Compatibility with International Standards

The issue of human rights has become an international obligation of States, and the mere recognition of these rights by States, no matter how clear and precise, does not constitute a guarantee in itself. The state shall assume its status to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms. The national protection mechanisms are diverse. They are either constitutional, judicial or political. Human rights in Iraq, as each institution or body to be able to exercise its powers, must be based on a legislative basis, whether legal or constitutional basis, In order to achieve its goal of promoting and protecting human rights.

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Thu Aug 31 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
Enshrine the Principle of the Common Heritage of Humanity Within the Framework of International Law

The international community began to realize, following the discovery of  vast wealth in areas that fall outside the territorial limits of states sovereignty, that the huge difference in scientific and technological development between developed and developing countries may give developed countries the opportunity to exploit these wealth, and this, in turn, will lead to a widening gap between countries, developed and developing countries, and the consolidation of the principle of inequality due to the lack of third world countries with the capabilities that allow them to participate in the exploitation of these wealth, and when these concerns came to the fore in the United Nations General Assembly in 1967, Ambassador Arvid Bardo, th

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Publication Date
Sat Sep 14 2019
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
Extent of the Legality of the Use of Drones in International Humanitarian Law

Rules of international humanitarian law establish restrictions on parties to armed conflicts in the their choice of weapons, means and methods of warfare. States when develop or acquire new weapons should verify that it complies with these rules. Current progress by new technology indicates that is very important to continue to assess the legality of new weapons.

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Publication Date
Sat Jul 31 2021
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
Criminal protection of mass graves under the provisions of international humanitarian law

Genocide and crimes against humanity have a distinct meaning in that they are particularly reprehensible attacks that constitute a grave assault on human dignity or constitute a gross humiliation or degradation of the dignity of one or more human beings, and they are not isolated and sporadic incidents.

That the crime of mass graves as a collective genocide is considered a mass murder of a group of people that is carried out on a discriminatory basis with the aim of their total annihilation as a race, people, or a distinct group that is culturally, culturally, linguistically or religiously independent, or for any reason that distinguishes them from humans, and this is what happened with the crime of mass graves in Iraq. We have n

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Publication Date
Thu Aug 31 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
International Child Abduction in the Framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

The prevailing pattern of child abduction has changed in the current era, and is no longer limited to the local borders of states but is taking an international turn, and the most accurate legal use of the term international child abduction originates in the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which considers-as the naming of the convention suggests - In cases of kidnapping from the point of view of private international law, the essence of it is a bitter dispute over custody rights that develops to the point of abducting children across borders, to try to obtain custody of the child in another country, so that the snap here is a family member and most often a parent, as it causes many legal consequenc

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Publication Date
Sat Dec 01 2018
Journal Name
Political Sciences Journal
Protecting woman during armed conflicts under the development of international humanitarian law

The international humanitarian law found the special rules to protect women meanwhile the armed conflicts whether international or non-international. These rules are adopted for woman because of two reasons : that she is from civilians and on the other hand that her special constitution demands a special protection. The international community's attention of women is increased as a result of the tragic situation that faced women around the world especially in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq during the American-British war and ISIS period, these two periods sort many negative effects that reach women such as captivity, slavery, sexual enslavement and rape women especially Yazidis and Christians....

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Thu Aug 03 2023
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
Superiority of Peremptory Norms in Public International Law

International law has proven that it is an evolving and flexible law over the years, and despite that, this development takes a very long time, as the concept of peremptory norms took 83 years to crystallize and have concrete and impactful applications, and within this development another modern concept emerged, which is the obligations Erga Omnes in the Barcelona Traction case 1970. We have concluded that these two concepts fall under a broader concept, which is peremptory norms, and this concept represents the common supreme interests of the international community, and consists of rules that transcend all other rules in international law, and it is not permissible to derogate or deviate from them. On the other hand, it bears the oblig

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Publication Date
Wed Feb 10 2021
Journal Name
Journal Of Legal Sciences
The Prohibition of Perfidy in International Humanitarian Law

This research id entitled "The Prohibition of Perfidy in International Humanitarian Law".  International humanitarian law includes some international agreements that aim to regulate hostilities, and the use of tools and means of warfare (The Hague Law), Where there are many international rules that govern the conduct and management of hostilities, there are some provisions that limit the use of certain means and methods during armed conflict, Whether by prohibiting the use of specific methods of fighting, or prohibiting or restricting the use of certain types of weapons, The dedication of these rules to the law of armed conflict comes in implementation of the principle of the law of war, which restricts the authorit

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