human rights in armed conflict and terrorism

Syria detained physicians who gave medical care to wounded opposition fighters designated as terrorists, and it attacked health-care facilities in terrorist-controlled areas We also examine tensions between IHL and state responses to terrorism more broadly.Īcross recent and current armed conflicts, state responses to terrorism have cast a spotlight on the scope and implementation of IHL protections for medical care:ĭuring its internal armed conflict, Peru prosecuted physicians in part for providing medical assistance to members of Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) Ĭolombia penalized a medical professional who managed the longer-term specialized care of members of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) Through that lens, we expose gaps and weaknesses in IHL. Against this background, we evaluate international humanitarian law (IHL) protections for wartime medical assistance concerning terrorists. The surge in armed conflicts involving terrorism has brought to the fore the general question of medical care in armed conflict and the particular legal protections afforded to those providing such care to terrorists. Modirzadeh, and Gabriella Blum, “Medical Care in Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law and State Responses to Terrorism,” Legal Briefing, Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, September 2015

Human rights in armed conflict and terrorism