Environmental Protection in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Finding the Way Forward

Mar 15, 2019 | Jeanique Pretorius
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This year, the UN’s International Law Commission may begin to address the imbalance in international legal framework intended to protect the environment in relation to conflict by deciding how its draft legal principles on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts could apply specifically to non-international armed conflicts. To set the scene, Jeanique Pretorius takes a look at the current legal framework and considers two options for how it could be strengthened.