الرافدین للحقوق (Jun 2023)

The role of intergovernmental organizations mines actions

  • Naghamm Aljakmakjy,
  • Wissam Alsady

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33899/alaw.2019.126037.1020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 83
pp. 315 – 352

Abstract

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The case of mines has become a major global concern due to the danger of this type of excessively harmful and random weapons, as they are extremely destructive and cruel tools, and they are always dangerous unless they are removed and deactivated. The complexity of the problems resulting from mines are related to their increasing destructive potential as a result of scientific, technological and military progress, and their causing many material and human losses, which prompted international humanitarian law to seek to restrict their use and prohibit them as a weapon that contradicts its main principles. The increasing interesting in mine issues required that the international Push increased attention. With the problems that arise from it, and this matter was reflected in the distinguished and prominent roles played by a number of international organizations, foremost among which was the United Nations and a number of its specialized international agencies, which succeeded in establishing an influential international legal trend in the field of dealing with mines and contributing to limiting or minimizing their effects. of its risks.

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