Accountability for Mass Starvation : Testing the Limits of the Law Hardback
Edited by Bridget (Research Director, Research Director, World Peace Foundation) Conley, Alex (Executive Director, Executive Director, World Peace Foundation) de Waal, Catriona (Partner, Partner, Global Rights Compliance) Murdoch, Wayne (Managing Partner, Managing Partner, Global Rights Compliance) Jordash QC
Part of the Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law series
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Famine is an age-old scourge that almost disappeared in our lifetime.
Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines and deaths in humanitarian emergencies were much reduced.
The humanitarian agenda was ascendant. Then, in 2017, the United Nations identified four situations that threatened famine or breached that threshold in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen.
Today, this list is longer. Each of these famines is the result of military actions and exclusionary, authoritarian politics conducted without regard to the wellbeing or even the survival of people.
Violations of international law including blockading ports, attacks on health facilities, violence against humanitarian workers, and obstruction of relief aid are carried out with renewed impunity.
Yet there is an array of legal offenses, ranging from war crimes and crimes against humanity to genocide, available to a prosecutor to hold individuals to account for the deliberate starvation of civilians.
However, there has been a dearth of investigations and accountability for those violating international law.
The reasons for this neglect and the gaps between the black-letter law and practice are explored in this timely volume.
It provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes and cases required to catalyze a new approach to understanding the law as it relates to starvation.
It also illustrates the complications of historical and ongoing situations where starvation is used as a weapon of war, and provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning systems, gender and mass starvation, the use of sanctions, journalistic reporting, and memorialization of famine.
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- Publication Date:25/08/2022
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- Pages:496 pages
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- ISBN:9780192864734