Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts

Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts

The ICC's Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity

Grover, Sonja C.

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

08/2016

228

Mole

Inglês

9783662523360

15 a 20 dias

This book examines certain of the legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture and, in particular, where children are the targeted victims.
Part I Introduction: Contentious issues regarding what constitutes torture.- Part II Re-examining ICC cases involving the torture of children where torture was improperly not charged: The UN designated six most grave crimes against children as torture.- Part III A consideration of ICC cases in which torture was charged: Disregarding children as the particularized targets of torture in cases where torture was charged.- Part IV Conclusion: The de-politicization/denigration of children due to the disregard of children as the particularized targets of torture.
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