Atrocity Crimes, Children and International Criminal Courts

Killing Childhood

Cécile Aptel

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Routledge
28 April 2023

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

It elucidates the many structural, legal, financial and even attitudinal obstacles, often overlapping, that have contributed to the international courts’ focus on the experience of adults, rendering children almost invisible. It reviews whether and how different international and hybrid criminal jurisdictions have considered international crimes committed against or by children. The book also considers how international criminal justice can help contribute to the recognition of the specific impact that international crimes have on children, whether as victims or as participants, and strengthen their protection.

Finally, it proposes an agenda to improve this situation, making specific recommendations encompassing the urgent need to further elaborate child-friendly procedures. It also calls for international investigative and prosecutorial strategies to be less adult-centric and broaden the scope of crimes against children beyond the focus on child-soldiers.

This book is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and fieldworkers in the areas of international criminal law, international human rights law/child rights, international humanitarian law, child protection and transitional justice.

By: Cécile Aptel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 489g
ISBN: 9781032420554
ISBN 10: 1032420553
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 April 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Cécile Aptel is an international legal practitioner recognised for her expertise in international criminal justice, international humanitarian law, human rights and child rights. She has over 20 years of experience in international affairs, working for several UN entities, think-tanks and NGOs, at headquarters and in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. She currently is the deputy director of UNIDIR, a UN think-tank on disarmament and security, and was until 2019, director and acting under-secretary general at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Previously, she led the creation of the UN Mechanism on Syria and contributed to establishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina and, earlier, the UN international tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She is professor of practice at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, visiting scientist at Harvard University and visiting professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute and Geneva Academy.