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Cluster Munitions and International Law: Disarmament With a Human Face? book cover

1st Edition

Cluster Munitions and International Law Disarmament With a Human Face?

By Alexander Breitegger Copyright 2012
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use of cluster munitions under international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Factual Evidence in Relation to Cluster Munitions  3. Existing International Humanitarian Law relevant to Cluster Munitions 4. Jurisprudene on IHL in relation to Cluster Munitions Use 5. The Use of Cluster Munitions as a Human Rights Problem  6. Issues related to Cluster Munition Use Before Human Rights Mechanisms 7. The Oslo Process on Cluster Munitions and its Interaction with the CCW 8. The Convention on Cluster Munitions 9. Conclusions

Biography

Alexander Breitegger is a Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross. He was a Researcher and Lecturer on international law at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Adviser to CMC-Austria. His previous publications focus on international humanitarian and human rights law.

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