Armed Conflicts and Its Impact on Human Rights

Mohammed Salman Mahmood

doi:10.35246/jols.v31is.111

Abstract

The United Nations (UN) has affirmed a corpus of international human rights of which the most significant legal formulation is the International Documents of Human Rights which encompasses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, etc. International lawyers consider the Universal Declaration to have the status of customary international law, establishing a common standard by which to judge states' actions to protect human rights from armed conflicts. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of armed conflicts on civilian’s human rights. The methodology adopted in this paper is purely a library based research focusing mainly on primary and secondary sources. The paper concludes that a new Human Rights Council should be established to coordinate and organize the work of UN, also, the Human Rights Council could establish a framework that would enable these organizations to consolidate their efforts and prioritize human rights strategies for peace and development, as well as should be the Human Rights Council to establishment new international convention to protect human rights from armed conflicts.

Highlights

International lawyers consider the Universal Declaration to have the status of customary international law, establishing a common standard by which to judge states' actions to protect human rights from armed conflicts
Over the past 70 years, the United Nations has affirmed a corpus of international human rights of which the most significant legal formulation is the International Documents of Human Rights which encompasses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1966, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1966
The aim of this paper is to address the impact of armed conflicts on human rights

Summary

Introduction

Over the past 70 years, the United Nations has affirmed a corpus of international human rights of which the most significant legal formulation is the International Documents of Human Rights which encompasses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1966, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1966. The global community has exerted an extraordinary amount of energy articulating these norms and codifying human rights principles in international law This is a true progress: a yardstick has been developed to measure the degree to which nations uphold or violate the most basic human dignities. Despite the global advancement in defining normative goals and rights, there has not been similar success in pushing states to implement human rights agenda. In the name of selfdetermination and freedom, an astounding quantity of military weapons systems have been purchased around the world These military expenditures consistently impede economic development. The fourth part addresses the conclusion and some recommendations from the United Nations point to a means of achieving a better balance between conflicting sets of human rights claims and how do we in the Third World States incorporate these concerns into a coherent agenda. This article is specialized in the statement of the impact of armed conflicts on human rights, so the researcher addresses types of armed conflicts and the second part to identify the armed conflicts covered in the international protection

External Armed Conflicts

Internal Armed Conflicts

International Customs

General Principles of Law

Conclusion

A Call for Accountability and Protection