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Considerations and Guidance on the Humanitarian Engagement with Religious Leaders is an output of the three-year applied research project Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict – The Generating Respect Project. The research examined how religious leaders influence the behaviour of State and non-State parties to armed conflicts and whether their religious interpretations can lead to humanitarian norms-compliance. The publication aims to support humanitarian actors’ effective engagement with religious leaders with the goal of generating greater respect for humanitarian norms in armed conflict. It seeks to be a flexible tool – adaptable to the different mandates, priorities and needs of humanitarian organisations working on norms-compliance –, practical – providing answers to fundamental questions as to why and how to engage with religious leaders – and contextualiable – thus responsive to a variety of challenges and opportunities arising in diverse conflict-contexts. The document’s intended audiences are: i) humanitarian practitioners across non-, inter-, and governmental bodies; ii) donors and grant agencies; and iii) researchers, working in the area of compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) in conflict contexts.

In the last few decades, the role of non-state armed groups has become an essential topic of analysis and discussion to better understand international humanitarian law dynamics. While their increasing importance is uncontroversial, their place and regulation in specific areas of international law still remains unclear or insufficiently explored. Chief among these is the possible non-state armed groups’ international responsibility. Although it is undisputed that some of these entities breach their international law obligations, others seemingly engage with certain rules on the topic. This article addresses some legal consequences of such scenarios. Taking into account the principle of equality of belligerents in noninternational armed conflicts, two issues are dealt with: i) the existence of “nonstate” organs that could trigger the attribution of violations of international rules to non-state armed groups; ii) possible reparations owed by these non-state entities for their breaches during armed conflicts., Goettingen Journal of International Law ; Vol. 8, no. 1, page 39-72

El texto analiza diversos institutos del derecho internacional que impactan sobre la forma en la que se regula el accionar de los grupos armados, a la luz del marco teórico de la fragmentación del ordenamiento jurídico. Fil: Kotlik, Marcos David. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina Fil: Heffes, Ezequiel. No especifíca

El derecho a la verdad, en tanto concepto jurídico, ha surgido en diferentes ámbitos nacionales, regionales e internacionales de protección de los derechos humanos. Se refiere a la obligación estatal de proporcionar información a las víctimas, a sus familias y a la sociedad en su conjunto sobre las circunstancias en las cuales ocurrieron graves violaciones a los derechos humanos. La verdad es analizada, entonces, como consecuencia de un proceso que involucra la búsqueda de la justicia y el dictado de sentencias que tengan un fin netamente reparador. No obstante, para los sistemas internacionales de salvaguarda tal derecho no ha sido claramente reconocido, al menos de forma convencional. Su mención en estos es escasa y ambigua. Por estos motivos, el presente trabajo tendrá por objeto observar cómo el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos ha delimitado el derecho a la verdad, tomando como estudio de caso la masacre de El Mozote, El Salvador, en 1981, la cual todavía hoy se encuentra impune, dejando a la sociedad salvadoreña sin justicia ni reparación pero, fundamentalmente, sin memoria., The right to truth, as a legal concept, has emerged in different national, regional and international settings of human rights protection. It refers to the state’s obligation to provide information to the victims, their families, and the society as a whole, about the circumstances in which gross human rights violations were committed. The truth is analyzed, therefore, as the consequence of a process involving the search of justice and the issue of rulings that have a merely reparational goal. However, for the safeguard international systems, this right has not been clearly recognized, at least in a conventional manner. Its mention in these systems is limited and ambiguous. Therefore, this paper aims to study how the Human Rights Inter-American System has defi ned the right to truth, taking as study case the El Mozote Massacre, which took place in El Salvador in 1981. This event still today remains unpunished, leaving the Salvadorian society without justice or reparation, but fundamentally without memory.