Issues of protection of children's rights in the conditions of armed conflicts in Council of Europe documents
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35774/app2022.03.069Keywords:
human rights, convention, «best interests of the child», European community, European states, military action, right to education, European human rights standards, national legislationAbstract
The article analyzes the acts of the Council of Europe on ensuring the protection of children's rights in general and in armed conflicts in particular, as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the protection of the rights of children and adolescents. The relevance and expediency of the study is due to the fact that the rights of the child as a special age group with its psychophysical characteristics and interests need specific protection, and the world is becoming more and more states, including European, in armed conflict. children becomes an urgent need. The purpose of the article is to analyze the documents of the Council of Europe on the protection of children's rights in armed conflicts.
It was established that the Council of Europe has developed a set of documents (conventions, resolutions, recommendations), which enshrines both children's rights and guarantees, emphasizing that violations of children's rights, especially the right to education, have serious negative consequences due to The Council of Europe documents emphasize the need to create conditions conducive to the acquisition of quality education by children during armed conflicts at all levels, as well as the preservation of educational institutions as civilian facilities safe for pupils and teachers. It is stated that the documents of the Council of Europe also emphasize the need to form a culture of respect for children's rights in society, which should be reflected and consolidated at the level of national strategies for the protection of children and their rights; the inadmissibility of violence against children in conflict situations was pointed out; called for an end to the recruitment of children into the armed forces and the demobilization of those children who are already involved in their ranks.
The author proposes to consider the possibility and expediency of creating a single systematized act of the Council of Europe on comprehensive protection of children's rights in armed conflicts and post-conflict periods.
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