Serious Violations Of Human Rights

Author : Lyal S. Sunga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004479845

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Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights Violations by Lyal S. Sunga Pdf

What rules of international law make the individual, even a Head of State, responsible for perpetrating serious human rights violations, such as war crimes, torture or genocide? This question is becoming more critical in our increasingly interdependent world, and the recent invasion of Kuwait and the brutalization of its people by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has heated up the debate even further. The author argues that a new rule of international law stipulating individual responsibility for all serious human rights violations is currently emerging. To show how this is coming about, he explores relevant norms in classic laws of war, international humanitarian law and modern international human rights law and surveys patterns in their implementation. He then takes account of codification efforts of the International Law Commission, the changing position of the individual in international law, and other important developments in the context of general international law as an evolving system.

Author : Ilia Siatitsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0192677659

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Serious Violations of Human Rights by Ilia Siatitsa Pdf

This monograph represents the most recent analysis of the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights' in international practice. It proposes a systematic and structured engagement with the international practice around serious violations of human rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anja Seibert-Fohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199569328

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Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations by Anja Seibert-Fohr Pdf

Is there a duty to prosecute serious human rights violations? This book examines this issue, drawing on international human rights instruments and case law. It finds flaws in the current prosecution of these crimes and develops proposals for improvement. Featuring in-depth analysis of trials, amnesties and impunity, it is a unique reference work.

Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417877

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Remedies for Human Rights Violations by Kent Roach Pdf

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

Author : Ilia Siatitsa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780192863041

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Serious Violations of Human Rights by Ilia Siatitsa Pdf

This book analyses the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights', and similar ones, such as 'gross' or 'grave', in international practice. It highlights some of the recurring responses and consequences to such violations and suggests that a new special regime - eponymous to the above-mentioned expression - was formed. This special regime is understood as substantively limited to a very specific issue-area of human rights violations. Within this regime, a series of monitoring mechanisms and procedures are in place to highlight, document, and record such violations; specific measures are taken to enforce compliance; and certain consequences arise focused on remedying the victims of such violations. As such, this special regime is comprised of at least four thinly interconnected components: the substantive, the monitoring, the enforcement, and the remedial ones. This monograph constitutes a first step towards the recognition of such a regime, allowing far more constructive and coherent elaboration in the future. Practice around this category of violations may well evolve in a different direction than the one suggested here. However, what becomes apparent from this work is that the serious violations of human rights are a key notion in the international legal order as it allows the international community to depict those factual situations requiring its attention and action.

Author : Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031427121

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Bodies, Territories and Serious Violations of Human Rights in Mexico by Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez Pdf

This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "War on Drugs" by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last decades. The text presents an analysis of the disappearance of persons, forced internal displacement, and gender violence as systematic expressions of State violence. These fields of research allow us to point out tensions between social practices and the institutional fragility that systematically denies human rights violations while at the same time ratifies and celebrates them. The thematic knotting between bodies and territories is anchored in the processes of shaping a memory that expresses State violence and presents the silenced resistances of minority social groups that elude the traditional forms of registration, control and collection of data. From these coordinates, body-territories are approached as scenarios where intersectionally-knotted violences unfold. The theoretical approaches considered are mobilized through a critical approach to capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy in order to analyze public policies and narratives related to the protection of bodies-territories, as well as the responses to the needs, interests and preferences of different groups and individuals whose lives are marked by the experience of serious human rights violations. Finally, this approach also considers the new ways in which crimes against humanity unfold in situations of democratic transition, as well as the forms of symbolic exchanges in the transmission of meaning and community bonding. Bodies, Territories and Serious Violations of Human Rights in Mexico will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students in different fields of knowledge, such as criminology, sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and the interdisciplinary field of human rights studies.

Author : M. Cherif Bassiouni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Crimes against humanity
ISBN : UVA:X006070619

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Accountability for International Crimes and Serious Violations of Fundamental Human Rights by M. Cherif Bassiouni Pdf

Author : Juan Carlos Ochoa S.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004212169

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The Rights of Victims in Criminal Justice Proceedings for Serious Human Rights Violations by Juan Carlos Ochoa S. Pdf

The Rights of Victims in Criminal Justice Proceedings for Serious Human Rights Violations addresses a question of critical importance to policy-makers, international lawyers, academics, and affected societies throughout the world: Should victims of serious human rights violations be granted under international law the rights of access to and participation in criminal proceedings before international, hybrid and domestic tribunals? Juan Carlos Ochoa applies a thorough analysis of international and comparative domestic law and practice to this question, taking into account a host of international human rights instruments and case law, the theory, law and practice of international and hybrid criminal tribunals, the law and practice in several domestic jurisdictions, and many theoretical and empirical studies. After first determining the current state of, and emerging trends in, international law in this area, he argues that the lack of recognition of these rights under customary international law is inadequate, because access to and participation in criminal proceedings for victims of these infringements are based on several internationally recognised human rights and principles, contribute to the expressivist objectives of these procedures, and are consistent with the principles that inform the enforcement of criminal law in democratic States. On this basis, Ochoa convincingly suggests concrete reforms.

Author : Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004289031

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The Law, Policy and Politics of the UN Human Rights Council by Bertrand G. Ramcharan Pdf

It is the merit of this book to present the Human Rights Council in terms of its mandates, roles and organization while seeking to remind the membership and the international community at large that the Council must be anchored in the modern human rights law of the Charter - of which the author gives a superb presentation. The book then proceeds to make the case that human rights are part of international constitutional law and this is exceedingly important at a time when universal values have come under stress from various quarters including from terrorist formations. The argument of the book is essentially that the modern human rights law of the Charter and the human rights provisions of international constitutional law must take precedence for everyone, everywhere.

Author : Amnesty International,Amnesty International Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0862104920

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Amnesty International Report 2015/2016 by Amnesty International,Amnesty International Publications Pdf

Author : International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0889369631

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The Responsibility to Protect by International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Author : Anja Seibert-Fohr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criminal procedure (International law)
ISBN : 0191721506

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Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations by Anja Seibert-Fohr Pdf

Is there a duty to prosecute serious human rights violations? This text examines this issue, drawing on international human rights instruments and case law. It finds flaws in the prosecution of these crimes and develops proposals for improvement.

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808853

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World Report 2019 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Author : Ewa Bagińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319189505

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Damages for Violations of Human Rights by Ewa Bagińska Pdf

This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights violations are embraced, including historical injustices and systematical and gross violations. The book is a collection of nineteen contributions written by public international law, international human rights and private law experts, covering fifteen European jurisdictions (including Central and Eastern Europe), the United States, Israel and EU law. The contributions, initially prepared for the 19th International Congress of Comparative law in Vienna (2014), present the latest developments in legislation, scholarship and case-law concerning domestic causes of action in cases of human rights abuses. The book concludes with a comparative report which assesses the developments in tort law and public liability law, the role of the constitutionalisation of the right to damages as well as the court practice related to the process of enforcement of human rights through monetary remedies. This country-by-country comparison allows to consider whether the value of protection of human rights as expressed in international treaties, ius cogens and in national constitutional laws justifies the conclusion that the interests at stake should enjoy protection under the existing civil liability rules, or that a new cause of action, or even a whole new set of rules, should be created in national systems.