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INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

- the branch of international law, the norms of which regulate cooperation on humanitarian issues (science, culture, education, information exchange, contacts between people), have two sub-sectors: humanitarian law in peacetime and humanitarian law in times of armed conflict.

The subjects of regulation are the implementation, maintenance and protection of human rights.

Sources MGP - numerous multilateral universal treaties, conventions on human rights, which can have both mandatory and advisory character.

The main international legal acts on

Human rights are divided into:

1. The International Charter of Human Rights:

1) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948;

2) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966;

3) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966

2. Acts to combat massive violations of human rights:

1) Convention on Slavery of 1926 (with changes to corporate law of 1953);

2) the Convention on Forced or Compulsory Labor, 1930;

3) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948;

4) The Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960;

5) the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965;

6) the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid of 1973;

7) Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1975;

8) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Dignity of Treatment and Punishment 1984

3. Acts to protect the rights of individual categories of individuals:

1) Charter of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1950;

2) Convention on the Status of Refugees of 1951 and its Protocol of 1966;

3) Convention on the Political Rights of Women, 1952;

4) Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954;

5) Convention on the Nationality of Married Women, 1957;

6) Declaration of the rights of the child in 1959;

7) The Declaration on Territorial Asylum, 1967;

8) Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict, 1974;

9) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979;

10) Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

MGP is defined as a set of international legal principles and norms that regulate the issues of ensuring and protecting human rights and freedoms both in peacetime and during armed conflicts. Norms MGP regulate the cooperation of states in the humanitarian sphere, the legal status of all categories of individuals and establish responsibility for the violation of human rights and freedoms.