Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts
Subtitle: The ICC's Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783642406881
Subjects: Children and war; Children, crimes against; International criminal courts; Torture
Description: This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court's reluctance in practice to prosecute as a separable offense the crime of torture as set out in one or more of the relevant provisions of the Rome Statute where children are the particularized targets as part of a common plan during armed conflict.