5 ABSTRACT The rules governing the protection of children in armed conflicts has undergone an extensive evolution over the last few years. From the beginning of 20th century when the first international instruments for acknowledging children as a specific group requiring better attention and a special approach started to form, through the boom in the 1980 when the binding Convention on the rights of the child was dedicated solely to children and children's protection became the key question for many international participants, till the 21th century where the protection of children began to be oriented towards the balance between accepted obligations and their realization. Today, many international documents deal with the protection of children; however, their implementation and realization is often lacking. Armed conflicts are no longer of a traditional international character today and the norms, which dealt with relations between states, are no longer valid and need to be reassessed. Mixed and internal armed conflicts prevail and the attention is focused on civilian children included as an easy targets. In this kind of situation, children are particularly vulnerable for various reasons. First, many children live in a large-scale poverty and any kind of participation in an armed conflict allows them to...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:329310 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Satoriová, Petra |
| Contributors | Hýbnerová, Stanislava, Honusková, Věra |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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