THE PROTECTION OF WAR JOURNALISTS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA

Abstract

The war that took place between Russia and Ukraine made journalists around the world come to the country to cover news about the events of this war. But the Russian soldiers assaulted them while they were on duty and as the result, they were killed. Whereas according to international humanitarian law, journalists are parties who should not be attacked because they are considered civilians. The problem formulation in this study is how to apply the rule of war related to the protection of journalists in the Ukraine Russia of journalists in the Ukraine-Russia conflict country from the point of view of the 1907 Hague Convention IV and the 1948 Geneva Convention and their protocols as part of international humanitarian law. protection of journalists in the Ukraine-Russia conflict country. The normative juridical approach was applied in this study, and the specifics of the research were analytical and descriptive. Research data comes from primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. The writer will use library research as a source when they have some data, and inductive and deductive reasoning will be used to analyze it. The results of the research and discussion are that according to international humanitarian law in carrying out their duties, journalists are protected by provisions in international conventions, but in the Russia-Ukraine war, the convention was not applied because in fact journalists on duty were attacked by the Russian army. This is included in the category of war crimes, therefore the settlement of this incident can be carried out at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) because both Russia and Ukraine are countries that have not ratified the Rome statute. The conclusion is that attacks on journalists constitute a war crime and as a form of application of legal protection will be resolved in the ICJ based on international conventions.