New Paper (open access): The duty to bring children living in conflict zones to a safe haven

This paper of mine is part of a Special Issue in the Journal of Global Ethics on Refugee Crisis: The Borders of Human Mobility, edited by Melina Duarte, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Serena Parekh & Annamari Vitikainen. It was published open access, thanks to support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). You find the abstract below and can access the paper for free here:
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449626.2016.1247744

Abstract: In this paper, I will discuss a children’s rights-based argument for the duty of states, as a joint effort, to establish an effective program to help bring children out of conflict zones, such as parts of Syria, and to a safe haven. Children are among the most vulnerable subjects in violent conflicts who suffer greatly and have their human rights brutally violated as a consequence. Furthermore, children are also a group whose capacities to protect themselves are very limited, while their chance to flee is most often only slim. I will then discuss three counterarguments: the first counterargument would be that, instead of getting the children out of a particular country, it would be better to improve their situation in their home countries. A second counterargument could be that those states, which have such a duty to bring children to a safe haven, would be overburdened by it. Finally, the third counterargument I want to discuss states that such a duty would also demand a military intervention, which could worsen the situation even further.