Following that, he issued orders to Russia’s armed forces, which have been amassing at the border with Ukraine for months, to carry out “peacekeeping” in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”(“DNR”) and “Luhansk People’s Republics” (“LNR”). On February 21, President Putin signed two decrees recognizing the two areas’ independence and submitted them to parliament for ratification. (Kyiv) – Russia’s parliament adopted a resolution on Februrequesting President Vladimir Putin to recognize as independent states two areas in eastern Ukraine held by Russia-backed armed groups.
On February 24, President Putin declared war against Ukraine, and missile and shelling attacks began against multiple Ukrainian cities. The authors not only chart the existing state of the law, but also debate the normative implications of the continuing influence of human rights norms on current practices including torture, targeted killings, the conduct of non-international armed conflicts, and post-war state building.Tetyana Tomenko in front of her house, which was damaged during shelling in Novognativka, eastern Ukraine, February 20, 2022. Each chapter skilfully maps the possibilities of harmonization while, at the same time, raising cautionary flags about the limits of that project.
In this book, an unparalleled collection of legal theorists examine the relationship between these two bodies of law. For others, the relationship is a more complicated sibling rivalry. For some, this relationship is viewed as a mutually reinforcing effort between like-minded regimes designed to civilize human behavior. In the process, human rights law and international humanitarian law have developed a complicated sibling relationship. In the last two decades, human rights law has played an expanding role in the legal regulation of wartime conduct.
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