Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of International Instruments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
- PART I THE NORMATIVE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- PART II CURRENT APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND NORMS
- Chapter 5 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in ‘Quasi-Judicial’ and Judicial International Settings
- Chapter 6 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in ‘Quasi-Judicial’ and Judicial Regional Settings
- Chapter 7 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in Non-Judicial Settings
- Chapter 8 Final Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - Final Remarks
from PART II - CURRENT APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND NORMS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- Table of International Instruments
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
- PART I THE NORMATIVE AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- PART II CURRENT APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND NORMS
- Chapter 5 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in ‘Quasi-Judicial’ and Judicial International Settings
- Chapter 6 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in ‘Quasi-Judicial’ and Judicial Regional Settings
- Chapter 7 Child Victims’ Right to Reparation in Non-Judicial Settings
- Chapter 8 Final Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
This book represents a, hopefully significant, step in clarifying an underresearched topic in the field of reparations. The right to reparation has been steadily gaining momentum and it is well rooted in the international law framework. Nonetheless, shift ing the attention from the inter-State to the individual dimension of reparations has triggered several questions and raised a large number of important issues. The abundance of armed conflicts worldwide and the emergence of new methods of warfare have resulted in high numbers of persons affected, individually or collectively, by violations of IHRL and IHL. Children are among those who suffer the most in connection wiThan armed conflict, be it international or internal. Recent global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children show that lately children have been affected ‘to a degree which is an affront to our common humanity’. 1004 Almost 20 years ago Ms Machel reported to the General Assembly that
[m]illions of children are caught up in conflicts in which they are not merely bystanders, but targets. Some fall victim to a general onslaught against civilians; others die as part of a calculated genocide. Still other children suffer the effects of sexual violence or the multiple deprivations of armed conflict that expose them to hunger or disease. Just as shocking, thousands of young people are cynically exploited as combatants.
Since then, despite the mechanisms set up by the UN and the efforts made by specialised NGOs and other local and international actors, very little has changed and atrocities committed against children show no sign of abating, although these violations are, at last, recognised as a stand-alone category that requires the adoption of specific measures for prevention and intervention. Armed conflicts, especially protracted ones, ‘have a significant impact on healThand well-being across almost all domains of children's lives, due to exposure to violence, pervasive poverty, ongoing insecurity, strained family relations, disrupted networks of social support, curtailed education and poor health’.
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- Reparations for Child Victims of Armed ConflictState of the Field and Current Challenges, pp. 241 - 250Publisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2017