Table of Contents

International Law, Criminal Accountability and the Rights of the Child.- General Introduction: A Child Rights-Based Approach to International Criminal Accountability.- The Rights of the Child, Law of Armed Conflict and Customary International Law: A Tale of Two Cases.- Children in Armed Conflict: Law and Practice of the United Nations.- Child Participation in International Criminal Accountability Mechanisms: The Case of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission.- The Criminal Responsibility of Minors.- The Age of Criminal Responsibility for International Crimes Under International Law.- What Do They Know? Child-Defendants and the Age of Criminal Responsibility: A National Law Perspective.- The Criminal Responsibility of Former Child Soldiers: Contributions from Psychology.- Practice Unfolding in International Courts.- The Rights of Children and the International Criminal Court.- Strike Terror No More: Prosecuting the Use of Children in Times of Conflict — the West African Extreme.- ‘As if it was Happening Again’: Supporting Especially Vulnerable Witnesses, in Particular Women and Children, at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.- Children and International Criminal Law: The Practice of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).- Bridging the Gap: Military Training and International Accountability Regarding Children.- Litigating Children’s Rights Affected by Armed Conflict Before the European Court of Human Rights.- Concluding Observations.

About the Author

Karin Arts is Associate Professor in International Law and Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Vesselin Popovski is the Director of Studies on International Order and Justice, Peace and Governance Programme at the United Nations University, Tokyo.