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Do armed residents engaging in self-defense count as civilians during armed conflict?
Resident T does not hold any official position in an armed group
An Army or a militia from a foreign country not recognized by T's country, enters T's neighborhood.
T attempts to defend his ...
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What services is it a war crime to cut off or eliminate access to?
Many news sources say cutting off a region from water, intentionally is a war crime.
This is rooted in proclimations like the INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC),
In essence, water is a ...
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What is the definition of "Race" used in ICERD?
It seems like it's not defined in the convention (International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination). But does race only mean colour in the convention?
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International standards on prisoners' right to vote
Are there any international standards or declarations/conventions on prisoners' right to vote?
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Where is the line between defending a city and using human shields?
The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of human sheilds. From the Red Cross:
The prohibition of using human shields in the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I and the Statute of the ...
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Is assassination of presumed civilian informants considered a war crime and/or crime against humanity?
In Myanmar for the past several months revolutionary forces have been regularly threatening, targeting, and assassinating civilians who are believed to be reporting anti-government activity to the ...
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What are the formal requirements to cite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in U.S. courts?
I understand that there has been no attempt to broaden protections subject to civil rights in the U.S. on the grounds of human rights so there is likely no example for such a reference, but U.S. ...
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Is it legal to purposefully contract COVID-19?
I may have a number of reasons for wanting to intentionally expose myself to the coronavirus. (Examples: I feel more capable of surviving it while I am younger. It reduces my ability to carry and ...
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Is it just to forcibly isolate an infected person when medical resources are deficient?
The background is the outbreak of the coronavirus in China. Many infected people have been isolated to prevent the spread of the virus. However, medical resources are highly deficient in serious ...
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If an AirBnB host doesn't disclose that it's not allowed, in which countries does a landlord have direct recourse against the *guest*?
So this question stems from an article on cbc, describing how it can happen that an AirBnB host rents an apartment in a block where short term rentals are forbidden. The article states that in some ...
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International issues [closed]
I've been working with a person in the UK and recently fell into some issues. There's breach of contract being thrown around. I'm just wondering which jurisdiction it would fall under: UK or ...
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Who is to enforce the UDHR and the Charter of the UN?
Who is to enforce the Charter of the United Nations and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ? The governments or the citizens of the member countries?
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Blasphemy in the Context of Freedom of Speech
So my country is currently exhausting herself with a blasphemy case. It makes me wonder because such case in other countries (Western countries in particular) are not considered a crime because it's a ...
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On what grounds can a government delegalise the use of specific software and is that compliant with international laws?
As I read in the "Government use" section in the VPN blocking article on Wikipedia. It seems that Iran and China (used to) block access to use VPN software. I'd like to widen the scope of the question ...
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Which takes precedence: International Right of Self-Determination, or Country's Constitution?
In Brazil there's a movement, named Sul Livre (Free South), that claims for the independence of the country's Southern states. And this is not the only one: there are a lot of similar movements that ...
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