international humanitarian law

Sexual War Crimes in the Context of Armed Conflict: Challenges for National and International Justice

This article explores the legal nature of sexual war crimes in the context of armed conflict, particularly with reference to the ongoing war in Ukraine. It emphasizes the systematic use of sexual violence as a tool of terror, repression, humiliation, and the destruction of social structures. The article examines the compliance of such acts with international humanitarian law.

Problems of Ensuring the Principles of International Humanitarian Law Protection of Children's Rights in War Conditions

The article is devoted to the study of the essence and content of the issue of protecting children's rights in war conditions, an analysis of Ukrainian realities is carried out and problems of ensuring the principles of international humanitarian law in this area are identified.

Protection of Human Rights During Armed Conflicts: Challenges and Opportunities for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Abstract. Armed conflicts remain one of the greatest challenges for the international community, threatening fundamental international values and declared guarantees. The article analyses the current challenges and opportunities for the implementation of international law in the field of human rights protection during armed conflicts, in particular in the context of the war in Ukraine.

Energy Security of Ukraine: Environmental and Military Threats

This paper discusses the role of energy security in national security. It is posited that the latter should be positioned much more broadly than economic security, because currently in the RussianUkrainian war, the aggressor state has chosen the energy infrastructure as the purpose of conducting an armed struggle, which violates the norms of international humanitarian law regarding harm to the civilian population.

Improving the efficiency of the legal regulation of fixing damages inflicted to military personnel in the course of combat actions

In the context of the norms of international humanitarian law, the article examines the improvement of the effectiveness of the legal regulation of recording injuries inflicted on servicemen during hostilities. The object of the study is the legal regulation of recording injuries inflicted on servicemen during armed conflicts. The subject of the study is the development of norms used during armed conflicts to record injuries to servicemen.

Legal regulation of the status of prisoners of war in accordance with the standards of international humanitarian law: historical and modern retrospective

Annotation. The article is devoted to the study of the norms of international humanitarian law in force in Ukraine regarding prisoners of war and the history of their implementation in the Ukrainian legal field. A thorough analysis of the norms of international humanitarian law and their implementation in national legislation is carried out.

Efficiency of the rules of warfare and norms of international humanitarian law: analysis of modern doctrine

The article analyzes the current scientific positions of experts in the field of international law regarding the effectiveness of the norms of international humanitarian law during an armed conflict.

International tribunals ad hoc: historical and legal retrospective

The article deals with the problem of international institutional legal means to implement international humanitarian law. Special attention is devoted to the operation of international tribunals ad hoc. Dedicated attention to the mechanism of creation and functioning of the  International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of  International Humanitarian Law committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991.