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Selected chapters from Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know


Act of War
Biological Weapons
Carpet or Area Bombing
Chemical Weapons

Collateral Damage
Command Responsibility
Evacuation of Civilians from Battlefield
Illegal or Prohibited Acts
Indiscriminate Attack
Just and Unjust War

Military Objectives
Principle of Proportionality
Property: Civilian, Destruction of
Property: Wanton Destruction

Refugee, Rights of
Reprisal
Terrorism Against Civilians
Total War
Universal Jurisdiction
Wanton Destruction

Reports & Statements from Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Afghanistan: ICRC calls on all parties to conflict to respect international humanitarian law
Press Release, 24 October 2001

Bombing and occupation of ICRC facilities in Afghanistan
Press Release, 26 October 2001

Human Rights Watch

September 11 Attacks: Crimes Against Humanity

Questions and Answers about International Humanitarian Law:
Legal Issues Arising from the War in Afghanistan and Related Anti-Terrorism Efforts


Afghanistan: New War Puts Women's Rights In Peril

“Due Process Protections Afforded Defendants: A Comparison between the Proposed U.S. Military Commissions and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)

Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment - A report by Physicians for Human Rights

Other Resource Collections

ASIL Insight: Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
Expert commentary and debate from the American Society of International Law.

EurasiaNet
EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.


Terrorism Law and Policy
JURIST: The Legal Education Network, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Treaties and Legal References

United Nations Charter

United Nations Treaty Collection: Conventions on Terrorism
Includes:

- International Convention against the Taking of Hostages. New York, 17 December 1979

- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings. New York, 15 December 1997

- International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. New York, 9 December 1999

Status Of International Conventions On Terrorism
List prepared by the United Nations Association/USA

UN Security Council resolution 1214 (8 Dec. 1998) “on the situation in Afghanistan”

UN Security Council resolution 1368 (12 Sept. 2001) on “Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts” (pdf file)


North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

-Text of the Treaty

-Document addressing the question, "What is Art. 5?"


Major Treaties on Aviation Law (pdf files)
Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University

U.S. State Department
Outlines of the major conventions against terrorism

Selected Articles in the Media

“The Military Tribunals on Trial”
By Aryeh Neier
The New York Review of Books, February 14, 2002

“US Doesn't Have the Right to Decide Who Is or Isn't a Pow
By Michael Byers
Guardian, Monday January 14, 2002

“In Letter, 300 Law Professors Oppose Tribunals Plan”
By Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, December 8, 2001, p. B7.

“Trial by Fury: Why Congress Must Curb Bush’s Military Courts”
By Laurence H. Tribe,
The New Republic
, Online Post date: 11.29.01, Issue date 12.10.01

“Justice Deformed: War and the Constitution”
The New York Times, editorial, Sunday, December 2, 2001,

“Tribunal v. Court-Martial: Matter of Perception”
By William Glaberson, December 2, 2001, p. B6.

“No Lawyer to Call”
By Stephen Gillers, The New York Times, op-ed, December 3, 2001, p. A19.

"What Kind of War Is It?"
By Kenneth Anderson, from the Times Literary Supplement.

A Defining Moment in the Parsing of War
By Anne-Marie Slaughter, from The Washington Post.

ASSAULT ON AMERICA: Paying for security with liberty
By Michael Ignatieff, the Financial Times.

Bibliography

Articles (1990-2001) from the ASIL Library on Legal Aspects of Terrorism


Association of American University Presses
A bibliography of books by experts, published by AAUP member presses. Topics include Terrorism, War, Peace, and Global Issues, Islamic Thought and Culture, and Fundamentalism and Islamic States.

Laqueur, Walter, A History of Terrorism
(Transaction, 2001).

Laqueur, Walter (ed.), The Terrorism Reader: A Historical Anthology
(Meridian, 1978).

Rogers, A.P.V., Law on the Battlefield
(Manchester University Press, 1996).

Wedgwood, Ruth, “Responding to Terrorism: The Strikes Against bin Laden,” (Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 24: 1999, pp.559-575).

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