Long‐Term Effects of Vietnam War: Agent Orange and the Health of Vietnamese People After 30 Years

Both gender and the environment have traditionally been positioned at the periphery of international humanitarian law (IHL). In recent decades, there has been important progress in moving both concerns closer to its centre; to date, however, an understanding of the intersection of gender and the environment in the legal regulation of armed conflict remains largely underdeveloped. Nevertheless, as the present article documents, there are important similarities in strategies pursued to advance both gender and the environment from the periphery to the mainstream of IHL, namely: first, a focus on sources of IHL, in particular concretizing arguably limited specific treaty content with interpretive guidance and implementation frameworks; second, a conceptual critique of prevailing definitions of “harm” in IHL; and third, advancing, through close empirical documentation and household-level analysis of conflict's effects, understandings of harm that capture so-called “second-round” effects of conflict. Recognizing these important affinities between gender and environment work in IHL, this article draws on these insights to propose a typology of gendered environmental harm in conflict. The article concludes with proposals for enhancing the legal and operational capture under IHL of the gender–conflict–environment nexus.

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Pregnancy in Times of War: What Are the Fallouts? A Review

Bouachba,

Gorincour,

Charlier

et al. 2024

Fetal Diagn Ther

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The beginning of the conflict in Ukraine has reminded Europeans the many and diverse consequences of armed conflicts. Indeed, the ever more sophisticated conflicts have led to the diffusion of numerous chemicals whose consequences spread even after the end of the war. We present through this paper a review of the consequences on pregnancies of the major conflicts that took place since the end of World War II. MEDLINE, Web of science, and Embase were screened for articles linking perinatal death or birth defects to wartime. A total of 50 papers treating of 8 countries and 4 major and medically documented conflicts were included in the final analysis. An increase in birth defects and perinatal death during and after the end of the conflicts was reported through all the conflicts analyzed. While more data are needed to conclude, maternal fetal medicine specialists ought to be wary when dealing with exposed populations.

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Long‐Term Effects of Vietnam War: Agent Orange and the Health of Vietnamese People After 30 Years

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Pregnancy in Times of War: What Are the Fallouts? A Review

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