Protecting vulnerable groups during armed conflicts: Iraqi children as a model

Abstract

Vulnerable and fragile groups of society during armed conflicts are exposed to violation, destabilization and loss of their basic rights, which have given the principles of human rights through international conventions and legislation great attention to them without a doubt, and the researcher chose the model among these categories is the Iraqi child for what the children of Iraq went through from a difficult and critical period, and the time range of the research is during and after the control of ISIS on areas in Iraq.The first topic: the concept of search terms, conventions and related laws, the first requirement included: the concept of protection and vulnerable groups, as well as the concept of children, armed conflict and international humanitarian law, which is:

The second requirement: international laws and conventions in this regard, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Geneva Conventions that protect civilians during armed conflict, especially The second topic: the reality of the Iraqi child during the war with ISIS, and this was explained based on the annual reports of the High Commission for Human Rights from 2014 to 2017 and included several demands.

The first requirement: the right to life, safety, the right to health and a statement of the danger of child recruitment, the second requirement: the conditions of the child in displacement camps: where the child suffered in the camps because they are inadequate and do not have the elements of a healthy life, the third requirement: violation of the right to education: where children left education in schools as a result of displacement and forced displacement, the fourth requirement: losses from civilian victims during liberation: Civilians and vulnerable groups, including children, were subjected to death, destruction, abortion of pregnant women, and lack of health care and medicine as a result of the war.