Starvation As a Weapon : Domestic Policies of Deliberate Starvation As a Means to an End under International Law.

Intro -- Starvation as a Weapon -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 'Starvation as a Weapon' -- 2 Remarks concerning the Approach and the Structure of this Analysis -- part A General Standards against Deliberate Starvation: The Right to Food and to Humanitarian Assistance -- Introduction -- I. Relevant Normative Frameworks -- 1 Legal Establishment of the Right to Food -- 1.1 Right to Food: Distinction between Right to Adequate Food and Right to be Free from Hunger -- 1.2 Sources of International Human Rights Law -- 1.3 Related International and Regional Provisions and Instruments -- 2 Restrictions to the Right to Food -- 2.1 Filling the Ratification Gaps and Avoiding Conflicts of Diverging Legal Resources -- 2.2 Limitation Clauses -- 2.3 Emergency Exceptions -- 2.4 Restricted Legal Force -- II. Prohibition of Deliberate Starvation -- 1 Deliberate Starvation Evoked by State Action -- 1.1 The Obligation to Respect -- 1.2 Special Case: Actively Undermining Humanitarian Assistance -- 2 Deliberate Starvation Evoked by Insufficient State Protection against Interference by Non-State Actors -- 2.1 The Obligation to Protect -- 2.2 Two Particularly Challenging Issues: Food Prices and Land Grabbing -- 3 Deliberate Starvation Evoked by Passive Conduct of a State in Vulnerable Situations -- 3.1 The Obligation to Fulfil -- 3.2 Detailed Considerations -- PART B Situations of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law -- Introduction -- I. Application of International Humanitarian Law -- 1 Non-International Armed Conflict -- 2 Use of Starvation as Use of Force? -- 3 Problematic Classification of Contemporary Armed Conflicts -- II. Prohibition of Deliberate Starvation -- 1 Prohibition of Starvation of Civilians as a Method of Warfare.

1.1 Historical Development and Customary Status of the Prohibition of Deliberate Starvation of Civilians -- 1.2 Starvation of Civilians -- 1.3 Starvation of Fighters -- 1.4 Further Implicit Provisions against Starvation -- 2 Destruction of Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population -- 2.1 Offfensive Destructive Tactics -- 2.2 Defensive Scorched Earth Tactics -- 3 Starvation of the Civilian Population by Food Blockade -- 3.1 Starvation in the Context of Blockade and Siege Warfare -- 3.2 Humanitarian Relief to Civilians -- PART C Conclusion -- I. Two Frameworks as a Starting Position -- II. Harmonisation -- 1 Parallel Application -- 2 Synergies and Antagonisms -- 2.1 Synergies -- 2.2 Antagonisms -- 2.3 Evaluation -- III. Food for Thought -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Starvation as a Weapon Simone Hutter explores the legality of state policies using deliberate starvation as a means to an end against the own population under international human rights law and humanitarian law.

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