IEEPA's Override Authority: Potential for a Violation of the Geneva Conventions' Right to Access for Humanitarian Organizations?

Armed conflict creates the need for humanitarian aid. International law creates the mechanisms by which parties provide humanitarian aid and creates obligations in connection thereto. The 1949 Geneva Conventions (the "Conventions") form the humanitarian backdrop against which war is waged....

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Published in:Michigan law review 2006-08, Vol.104 (8), p.2019-2055
Main Author: White, Jennifer R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
Conventions
Displaced persons
Donations
Fairness
Federal legislation
Geneva Convention
Geneva Conventions
Geneva Conventions (1949 August 12)
Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian assistance
Humanitarian organizations
Humanitarianism
International cooperation
International law
International relations-US
Laws, regulations and rules
Medical supplies
Political parties
Political power
Presidency
Presidents
Restrictions
Social aspects
Statutory law
Terrorism
Treaties
Violations
War (International law)
War and emergency powers
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Summary:Armed conflict creates the need for humanitarian aid. International law creates the mechanisms by which parties provide humanitarian aid and creates obligations in connection thereto. The 1949 Geneva Conventions (the "Conventions") form the humanitarian backdrop against which war is waged. The Conventions establish an impartiality standard in that they grant to humanitarian organizations the right of access to non-combatants during armed conflict. In the United States, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA") establishes a Presidential determination standard for humanitarian organizations acting in situations of armed conflict that allows the President to restrict and prohibit humanitarian organizations' activities without considering their impartiality. Current circumstances present the need for immediate impartial humanitarian aid in armed conflicts to which the United States is a party. Contemporaneous use of IEEPA creates an imminent risk of a violation of the Conventions.
ISSN:0026-2234
1939-8557