Ensuring the right to life of various categories of persons in conditions of war

Abstract

This work examines the issue of ensuring the right to life of various categories of persons in wartime conditions.
 In today’s conditions, the relevance and importance of the right to human life, its realization and protection is obvious, because without such a fundamental right, all other rights lose any meaning. Life is a necessary condition for the realization of all human rights and freedoms. This right is enshrined in all human rights treaties and is part of universal international law.
 It is noted that the decisions of international and national courts regarding respect for the right to life during an armed conflict are not always clear, as they often lead to threats to governments to withdraw from international human rights protection mechanisms. Mechanisms for protecting the right to life need improvement. On October 30, 2018, the UN Committee on Human Rights adopted General Comment No. 36 to Art. 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, where he tried to solve the main problems related to the protection of human rights to life. But, despite the adoption of such an important act, many questions remain open.
 The peculiarities of the state’s obligations to protect the right to life in the conditions of a military conflict include issues of jurisdiction in the conditions of the occupation of the territory; the list of obligations of the state during an armed conflict; the limits of the need to use force in legitimate military actions, in the context of the need to counter terrorist acts, conduct special operations; peculiarities of the investigation of facts of deprivation of life.
 It was concluded that the right to life is an inalienable right of every person, which is guaranteed by the Basic Law of our country, normative legal acts and a number of international acts.