{"id":598,"date":"2017-05-01T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2017-05-01T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:48:43","slug":"the-protection-of-women-and-children-in-emergency-and-armed-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-protection-of-women-and-children-in-emergency-and-armed-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"The Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this on the 1974 entry on Wikipedia&#8217;s page <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_women%27s_legal_rights_(other_than_voting)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timeline of women&#8217;s legal rights (other than voting)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International: The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Declaration_on_the_Protection_of_Women_and_Children_in_Emergency_and_Armed_Conflict\">Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict<\/a> was adopted by the United Nations in 1974 and went into force the same year. It was proposed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council\">United Nations Economic and Social Council<\/a>, on the grounds that women and children are often the victims of wars, civil unrest, and other emergency situations that cause them to suffer &#8220;inhuman acts and consequently suffer serious harm&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Article 1 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/ProfessionalInterest\/Pages\/ProtectionOfWomenAndChildren.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the declaration<\/a> <strong>specifically prohibits bombing of civilian populations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Article 5 of the declaration requires countries to recognise <strong>the destruction of dwellings as a criminal act<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all member states of the United Nations<\/span> and has since 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Think on that when you see news stories of wedding parties being hit by drones or see destroyed apartment blocks and homes in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>If these are war crimes, who are the criminals and where are the trials?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this on the 1974 entry on Wikipedia&#8217;s page Timeline of women&#8217;s legal rights (other than voting): International: The Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict was adopted by the United Nations in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-protection-of-women-and-children-in-emergency-and-armed-conflict\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,102,19,224,223,210],"tags":[135,104,117,226,225,212],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airstrikes-kill-civilians","category-bombing-for-peace","category-children","category-human-rights","category-war-crimes","category-women","tag-airstrikes-kill-civilians","tag-bombing-for-peace","tag-children","tag-human-rights","tag-war-crimes","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}