The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in armed conflicts: myth or reality?
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- Michel Remi Njiki (ES) Universidad de Cádiz
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This work analyses the difficulties in protecting human rights in armed conflicts, especially economic, social and cultural rights that are limited even during times of peace. The starting point for this study is the idea that international humanitarian law has been considered, traditionally, the only law applicable to armed conflicts to the exclusion of the international law of human rights. However, in recent years the International Court of Justice, through several advisory opinions, has helped forged broad consent on the necessity to protect human rights in the context of war, namely civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights. The key issue is how in actuality economic, social and cultural rights that are less developed than civil and political rights can coexist with international humanitarian law in the regulation of armed conflicts and whether they can be protected fully, or at least partially, within this context.
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