a right to life in armed conflicts the contribution of the european court of human rights

It is inside these realms that the current article discusses education, family and income as socio-economic parameters interact with civilian mental harm. The construction of such socio-economic frameworks is important given the impact socio-economic factors have on human behaviour. 2 Furthermore, scholars have not built any socio-economic theoretical frameworks in order to then empirically test which socio-economic rights potentially impact upon the experiencing of civilian mental harm.

In other words, scholars have not so far examined how socio-economic rights interact with the right to mental health, a socio-economic right on its own. 1 Equally, nothing has been written on how socio-economic rights in general relate to the concept of civilian mental harm and if-beyond the right to health-there are other socio-economic rights that are significantly correlated with this civilian mental harm discussion. When it comes to civilian mental harm, it is only relevantly recently that international law scholars have started arguing that such harm should be included as a legal measure in the jus in bello proportionality balance that the military commander is called to wage. So far, both parts of the problematic have been largely understated in international law literature. Furthermore, given that the right to mental health is a socio- economic right, this assumption has not been tested on the basis of any interrelation that right might have with other socio-economic rights. Yet, so far, this assumption has not been actually tested. In that sense, there is a certain universality in the way mental harm is to be experienced. In war, there is an assumption that humans on all sides suffer the same.

A right to life in armed conflicts the contribution of the european court of human rights