International Criminal Responsibility for Recruiting Children in Warfare

Awad, Raad Hamza

doi:10.63677/jqlap.2025.186707

	International Criminal Responsibility for Recruiting Children in Warfare
AL-Qadisiya Journal For Law and Political Sciences
Volume 16, Issue: 1 part 1, March 2025, Pages 141-158 PDF (1.02 M)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.63677/jqlap.2025.186707
Author
Raad Hamza Awad^*
Technical Institute / Al-Hawija / Northern Technical University
Abstract
Military actions must have negative effects on various levels, and society has multiple interests that must be protected, perhaps the most prominent of which is the protection of children and preventing the violation of their rights, especially during armed conflicts. Since children are one of the vulnerable classes in society that can be subject to violations due to military events and the resulting scourges of wars, the international will had to have a supportive position that childhood can resort to and overcome its weakness. This is what we have seen through many international events that have striven to ensure the protection of children and spare them the effects of wars and their scourges. Perhaps the most important international measures taken in this regard are the international treaties that address the protection of children's rights during military conflicts, as they contain a legal and contractual obligation that leads to establishing a legal basis that works to protect those rights and prevent their violation during periods of military conflicts. The necessity of the research required following the descriptive analytical approach in analyzing the legal texts of international humanitarian law and treaties and agreements related to the subject, in addition to following the historical approach in some details.
Keywords
child recruitment; international criminal responsibility; acts of war

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