Children as direct participants in hostilities : new challenges for international humanitarian law and international criminal law / Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
Children as direct participants in hostilities : new challenges for international humanitarian law and international criminal law
Author zone:
Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
In:
New battlefields, old laws : critical debates on asymmetric warfare
Editor:
New York : Columbia University Press, 2011
Physical description:
p. 133-149
Languages:
English
Abstract:
This chapter addresses two major challenges arising from the issue of child terrorists. The first is how contemporary humanitarian law deals with incidents of children participating in terrorist activities. The second issue addressed here is the criminalization of acts of terrorism carried out by children.
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