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6 - Animals as Specially Protected Objects

from Part II - The Protection of Animals in International and Non-international Armed Conflicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2022

By
Sandra Krähenmann
Edited by
Anne Peters ,
Jérôme de Hemptinne  and
Robert Kolb
Anne Peters
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Jérôme de Hemptinne
Affiliation:
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Robert Kolb
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
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Summary

International humanitarian law provides special protection in armed conflict to particular categories of objects, granting them additional layers of protection and providing for some restriction on their use for military purposes. This chapter explores how animals could benefit from such special protection under two headings. First, it analyses whether and with which consequences animals could be safeguarded as cultural property. Second, the chapter addresses the protection of animals as objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population. It concludes with some recommendations on how the category of specially protected objects could be dynamically used to enhance the protection of animals against the effects of warfare.

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animals in warcultural heritagecultural propertynatural heritageobjects indispensable to the survival of the populationstarvationarmed non-state actors
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Animals in the International Law of Armed Conflict , pp. 92 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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