The Protection of the Rights of Children with Disabilities in Armed Conflict

Separation from the family, deprivation from education, lack of access to nutrition, health, treatment, and humanitarian aid are examples of the dangers to disabled children during an armed conflict. The legal status of children with disabilities - who are considered to be the most vulnerable minorities during armed conflict due to their special circumstances – is an important issue in international humanitarian law in recent years. The present study seeks to answer the question: what are the rights of these children in armed conflict and how to ensure them? Our assumption is that by relying on relevant human-rights and humanitarian instruments in this area and the practical actions taken by the international community, the rights of these children is moving in a direction that puts them on an equal footing with others in terms of general humanitarian protection and prioritizes them in benefiting from the humanitarian aids.