Скачать или смотреть Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier at HTP2017 - Counter-terrorism and the erosion of ethics in IHL

Fifteen years since a “war on terror” was declared by the United States, we can clearly see evidence of an erosion of international humanitarian law norms in the practice of targeted bombings of hospitals, attacks on humanitarian workers, detention without trial and torture, and extra-judicial killings.

In this talk, Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier from Medecins Sans Frontiers outlines the difficulties that arise from the asymmetry that arises in law in conflict between states and non-state groupings.

“[Either we] rebuild [the] basic rule that protects the medical mission… …or you condemn the full population of a country at war to be deprived of medical facilities. This is what is at stake.”

To find out more about Health Through Peace, please visit https://www.medact.org/forum-2017