"Environmental Protection During Armed Conflicts"... Seminar at the Faculty of Al-Alsun

The Community Service Affairs and Environmental Development Sector at the Faculty of Al-Alsun, at Ain Shams University, organized a symposium entitled "Environmental Protection during Armed Conflicts", during the activities of the Environmental Cultural Week, under the auspices of Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the College, and supervision of Prof. Youmna Safwat, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, in the presence of Dr. Ayman Salama, Professor of International Law, and the symposium was moderated by Professor. Atef Bahgat, member of the Environment Committee.

During this, Dr. Ayman Salameh reviewed the history of international humanitarian law to protect the civilian population during military conflicts, and to ensure their survival. Then, the law seeks to protect the natural environment, without which human life would be impossible.

It deals with the mechanisms of international law to criminalize any damage to the environment and transfers those responsible for it to a criminal trial that requires trial and punishment and deals with the history of world wars and their damage to the environment and the use of nuclear weapons and their effects that ended life in the city of Hiroshima for decades.

And he continued his speech, stressing that the wars that the arena is witnessing today in various parts of the earth have a great impact on climate changes and changes in the natural environment of humanity, and he stressed the inevitability of setting more binding controls for countries in conflict anywhere in the world to reduce the effects of heat emissions, environmental change and the impact of wars on rivers, seas, and oceans.