Noelle Quenivet Noelle.Quenivet@uwe.ac.uk
Director of Research and Enterprise (BLS)
Girl soldiers and participation in hostilities
Quenivet, Noelle
Authors
Abstract
Recently, organisations working with former child soldiers have observed the growing number of girls involved in armed conflicts. While their fate as sexual slaves is well documented, their participation in hostilities is less acknowledged. Girls, like boys, spy, loot, and kill, but they also cook, clean, and run camps. International humanitarian law, human rights law and international criminal law ban the participation of children in armed conflicts. However, the interpretation of the expression ‘participation in hostilities’ leaves open the possibility that the activities carried out by girls do not fall within the purview of this prohibition, and that, hence, their recruiters are not breaching the aforementioned legal norms.
Citation
Quenivet, N. (2011). Girl soldiers and participation in hostilities. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 16(2), 219-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0954889008000182
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Sep 11, 2011 |
Journal | African Journal of International and Comparative Law |
Print ISSN | 0954-8890 |
Electronic ISSN | 1755-1609 |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 219-235 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3366/E0954889008000182 |
Keywords | girls, soldiers |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1021303 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/E0954889008000182 |
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