Ensuring the child’s right to safety under martial law

Abstract

The dissertation is a comprehensive study of ensuring the child's right to security in martial law, which reveals theoretical and practical aspects of the above-mentioned issues at a new level.
In section 1 "Theoretical principles of implementing the child's right to security", the content of the child's right to security is determined, the features of its legal nature are identified; the genesis and development of the child's right to security are investigated.
Section 2 "Ensuring the right of the child to safety in the family, educational environment and within juvenile justice in conditions of martial law" highlights the features of ensuring the right of the child to safety in conditions of martial law in the family environment through the prism of combating domestic violence against the child and parental kidnapping; in the educational environment through the allocation of measures to combat bullying and cyberbullying; in the implementation of pilot projects of restorative justice and the Barnahus model.
In section 3 “Ensuring the child’s right to safety during armed conflict”, the features of protecting children as victims of war from physical impact (murder, mutilation, abduction, sexual violence, etc.) during an armed conflict, from recruitment to the armed forces and use in hostilities are identified and characterized; relevant proposals are developed to improve the legislation of Ukraine on combating the commission of war crimes against children, in particular, it is proposed to provide for criminal liability for violations of the laws and customs of war separately in relation to children.