Source: https://ihl-in-action.icrc.org/case-study/peru-demining-action
Timestamp: 2020-04-05 03:23:10
Document Index: 148383368

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 2', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 35', 'Art. 1', 'Art.1', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 6']

Peru, Demining Action | IHL in Action
[Source: International Campaign to Ban Landmines: Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, ‘Peru’, 22 November 2016, available at http://www.the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2016/peru/mine-action.aspx, footnotes omitted]
[Source: Anti-personnel mine ban convention, ‘Landmine Treaty Meeting Concludes with Advances in Stockpile Destruction, 158 Countries no Longer Hold Anti-Personnel Stockpiles’, 05 December 2016, available at http://www.apminebanconvention.org/newsroom/press-releases/detail/article/1480938217-landmine-treaty-meeting-concludes-with-advances-in-stockpile-destruction-158-countries/]
[Source: GICHD, ‘Evaluation of EC-Funded Mine Action Programmes in Latin America’, Geneva, July 2008, available at https://www.gichd.org/fileadmin/GICHD-resources/rec-documents/EvaluationEC-LatinAmerica2-GICHD-July2008.pdf, footnotes omitted]
[Source: OAS, ‘Support for Action against Antipersonnel Mines in Ecuador and Peru’, 06 June 2006, AG/RES.2181 (XXXVI-O/06), available at http://www.nti.org/media/documents/oas_ag_res_2261.pdf]
1. How would you classify the armed confrontations between Peru and Ecuador in 1995? What would be the applicable law? (GC I-IV, Art. 2; P I, Art. 1)
2. What is the law applicable to anti-personnel landmines? Are the rules on anti-personnel landmines applicable both to international and non-international armed conflicts? (PI, Art. 35; CCW, Art. 1 ; CCW Amended Protocol II, Art.1; Ottawa Convention, Art. 1; CIHL Rules 70, 81, 82, 83)
4. Does a State have a duty to clear anti-personnel landmines when they are already scattered underground? On what information does the State have to base its clearance action? What is the time-frame of the mine clearance obligation? Can that deadline be extended? If yes, by whom and under which conditions? (CCW Amended Protocol II, Art. 10; Technical Annex to Amended Protocol II 1, 2; Ottawa Convention, Art. 5; CIHL, Rule 83)
7. Does the legal framework applicable to anti-personnel landmines address victims and their needs? (CCW Amended Protocol II, Art. 10, 11; Ottawa Convention, Art. 6)