Resources

This page includes a curated list of resources about attacks on education, education in emergencies, and related topics from various education, development, humanitarian, and human rights organizations, as well as from academic researchers. It is intended to be a resource bank of advocacy, research, and response articles, reports, books, websites, datasets, and other relevant materials.

Paper
The Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System
This article describes the Inter-American system of human rights protection focusing mainly on the roles of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
González, Felipe  |  2009
Book
An Introduction to the Law of Armed Conflict
This book provides a modern and basic introduction to the law of armed conflict, constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law.
Hyde, Richard et al.  |  2008
Book
The United Nations Convention Against Torture: A Commentary
This book explores the problematic definition of torture in the UN Convention Against Torture, the substantive obligations of Sates parties, the principle of "non-refoulement", provisions for international monitoring, and the concept of preventative visits to all places of detention as contained in the Optional Protocol to the Convention.
Nowak, Manfred; Mcarthur, Elizabeth  |  2008
Paper
Elective affinities? Human rights and humanitarian law
The author analyses the question of in which situations either international humanitarian law or international human rights law is more specific and considers the procedural dimension of this interplay, in particular concerning the rules governing investigations into alleged violations, court access for alleged victims and reparations for wrongdoing.
Droege, Cordula  |  2008
Book
Military Necessity
This chapter of The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law is an examination and analysis of "military necessity" and its various definitions and interpretations.
Dinstein, Yoram  |  2008
Book
Sharia, Muslim States & International Human Rights
This research, undertaken from a comparative perspective with a view to identifying any patterns followed by Islamic countries in making declarations and reservations to the main international human rights treaties, seeks to measure and analyze to what extent Sharia affects the ratification and implementation of human rights norms by Muslim States.
Abiad, Nasrine  |  2008
Book
Targeted Killing in International Law
This book gives an exhaustive overview and analysis of the legal framework and judicial practice relating to the use of lethal force by States against selected individuals
Melzer, Nils  |  2008
Report
Human Rights in the International Court of Justice
In this speech delivered at the conference honoring Professor Dugard, President Higgins discusses various human rights issues that have come before the International Court of Justice, including self-determination, reservations to human rights treaties, the application of human rights instruments to occupied territories, and allegations of genocide by one state against another.
Higgins, Rosalyn  |  2007
Report
Education under Attack
A global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials, and institutions.
O'Malley, Brendan  |  2007
UNESCO
Book
Modern Treaty Law and Practice (2nd ed.)
This textbook aims to provide the student and practitioner with a full understanding of treaty law and updates existing information and refines previous arguments from its first edition.
Aust, Anthony  |  2007
Book
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Forty Years of Development
This chapter of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Action describes the history of the drafting of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and sets out some of the core conceptual debates about economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), including their justiciability and the nature of the relevant legal obligations.
Baderin, Mashood et al.  |  2007
Book
Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors
This book presents an approach to human rights that goes beyond the traditional focus on states and outlines the human rights obligations of non-state actors and addresses some of the ways in which they can be held legally accountable in various jurisdictions.
Clapham, Andrew  |  2006
Book
Education Trends in Perspective: Analysis of the World Education Indicators
The objectives of the WEI program are to: explore education indicator methodologies; reach consensus on a set of common policy concerns amenable to cross-national comparison and agree upon a set of key indicators that reflect these concerns; review methods and data collection instruments needed to develop these measures; and set the direction for further developmental work and analysis beyond this initial set of indicators.
2005
UNESCO
Book
Military Training and Children in Armed Conflict: Law, Policy and Practice
This book aims to address three main questions: what are the obligations of officers of national armed forces in relation to children, either civilians or combatants, whom they or those under their command may encounter while participating in situations of armed conflict? How realistic and achievable are these obligations? How can compliance with them be encouraged, monitored, and/or enforced?
Kuper, Jenny  |  2005
Paper
The Inter-American System For the Protection of Human Rights
This article discusses what the inter-American system for the protection of human rights is, what has been learned from the history of the system, how states have been compliant and non-compliant, and finally what recommendations can be made towards it.
Cerna, Christina  |  2004
Book
The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict
This textbook on the law of international armed conflict, focuses on recent issues arising in the course of hostilities between States, it explores the dividing line between lawful and unlawful combatants, the meaning of war crimes and command responsibility, the range of prohibited weapons, the distinction between combatants and civilians, the parameters of targeting and proportionality, the loss of protection from attack (including 'direct participation in hostilities') and special protection (granted, pre-eminently, to the environment and to cultural property).
Dinstein, Yoram  |  2004
Book
The Globalization of Human Rights
This book details the evolution of global human rights at various levels, domestic, regional, and international.
Coicaud, Jean-Marc et al.  |  2003
Paper
Reparation for Violations of International Humanitarian Law
This article reviews national and international laws and mechanisms relating to reparations for such violations, revealing that while a right to reparation is generally accepted, in the absence of specific mechanisms – usually found at the international level – individual victims are unable to enforce their rights and remain without redress.
Gillard, Emanuela-Chiara  |  2003
International Committee of the Red Cross
Book
The Law of Internal Armed Conflict
At a time when international armed conflicts are vastly outnumbered by domestic disputes, this book seeks to redress the balance through a comprehensive analysis of those rules which exist in international law to protect civilians during internal armed conflict.
Moir, Lindsay  |  2002
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