International Criminal Accountability and the Rights of Children

Abstract

International Law, Criminal Accountability and the Rights of the Child.- General Introduction: A Child Rights-Based Approach to International Criminal Accountability.- The Rights of the Child, Law of Armed Conflict and Customary International Law: A Tale of Two Cases.- Children in Armed Conflict: Law and Practice of the United Nations.- Child Participation in International Criminal Accountability Mechanisms: The Case of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission.- The Criminal Responsibility of Minors.- The Age of Criminal Responsibility for International Crimes Under International Law.- What Do They Know? Child-Defendants and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: A National Law Perspective.- The Criminal Responsibility of Former Child Soldiers: Contributions from Psychology.- Practice Unfolding in International Courts.- The Rights of Children and the International Criminal Court.- Strike Terror No More: Prosecuting the Use of Children in Times of Conflict - the West African Extreme.- 'As if it was Happening Again': Supporting Especially Vulnerable Witnesses, in Particular Women and Children, at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.- Children and International Criminal Law: The Practice of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).- Bridging the Gap: Military Training and International Accountability Regarding Children.- Litigating Children's Rights Affected by Armed Conflict Before the European Court of Human Rights.- Concluding Observations.