International mechanisms for the protection of human rights under martial law

Abstract

Human rights are fundamental to any just and equitable society. However, under martial law conditions, protecting them can be a challenge. However, in practice the situation of internal armed conflicts and violence is the largest threat and obstacle to their implementation. Hence, the perspective to the protection of the right to life during an armed conflict is based predominantly on the norms and regulations of international humanitarian law, which safeguard protection only to persons thereunder. The purpose of this article is to work out the priority measures for the protection of human rights in the conditions of martial law drawing on the insight into the foreign experience. To address the said goal, the present article utilized cognitive dialectical methods, the method of idealization, formalization and modeling of the response strategy in case of human rights violation. Because of the conducted study, a response strategy was elaborated in case of human rights violations under war conditions. The findings of this article are important for lawyers, public officials, and civil society organizations working to protect human rights under conditions of martial law, seek to administer the standards and practices of international regulation of universal human and citizen rights in individual administrative cases.