International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780521806978
Subjects: Armed conflict; Gender studies; International humanitarian law; International relations; Politics/International Relations; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Political Science; Law; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Law / International; Human rights; Humanitarian law
First sentence: Part I analyses and compares the normative frameworks of international human rights law and humanitarian law by examining the way in which each is constructed to achieve its purpose, whether, in the first case, the granting of fundamental rights to the individual or, in the second, the alleviation of human suffering in times of armed conflict.