ABSTRACT
International and regional human rights mechanisms have supplemented and filled lacunae within the substantive and institutional frameworks of protection under international humanitarian and criminal law. It is suggested that the oversight that these mechanisms of international civil society provide has, in many cases, necessarily comprised the consideration of existing norms under international humanitarian law, as well as a range of human rights law frameworks. Furthermore, it is suggested that the application of frameworks of humanitarian law and human rights law in response to alleged violations of these legal frameworks has in many cases involved the interpretation and ordering of those standards.
