The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in the African Commission’s General Comment on the Right to Life

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Vito Todeschini is a Ph.D. Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark. Vito’s research project deals with the obligation to investigate in armed conflict and peace operations, with a special focus on the interaction between international humanitarian law and human rights law. He is an editor of Rights!.

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The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law in the African Commission’s General Comment on the Right to Life

June 7, 2016

Vito Todeschini

In November 2015, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) adopted General Comment (GC) no. 3 on the right to life. The GC deals with a variety of issues surrounding the right to life, inter alia the death penalty, use of force in law enforcement and armed conflict, investigations and accountability, and…