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Accountability for Mass Starvation - Testing the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
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Accountability for Mass Starvation - Testing the Limits of the Law (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law
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Famine is an age-old scourge that almost disappeared in our
lifetime. Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines and deaths in
humanitarian emergencies were much reduced. The humanitarian agenda
was ascendant. Then, in 2017, the United Nations identified four
situations that threatened famine or breached that threshold in
north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. Today, this
list is longer. Each of these famines is the result of military
actions and exclusionary, authoritarian politics conducted without
regard to the wellbeing or even the survival of people. Violations
of international law including blockading ports, attacks on health
facilities, violence against humanitarian workers, and obstruction
of relief aid are carried out with renewed impunity. Yet there is
an array of legal offenses, ranging from war crimes and crimes
against humanity to genocide, available to a prosecutor to hold
individuals to account for the deliberate starvation of civilians.
However, there has been a dearth of investigations and
accountability for those violating international law. The reasons
for this neglect and the gaps between the black-letter law and
practice are explored in this timely volume. It provides a
comprehensive overview of the key themes and cases required to
catalyze a new approach to understanding the law as it relates to
starvation. It also illustrates the complications of historical and
ongoing situations where starvation is used as a weapon of war, and
provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning
systems, gender and mass starvation, the use of sanctions,
journalistic reporting, and memorialization of famine.
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