Author: Metin Baolu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199374627
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 571
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This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by a group of prominent scholars of behavioral sciences, international law, human rights, and public health. It represents a first ever attempt to compare behavioral science and international law perspectives on definitional issues and promote a sound theory- and evidence-based understanding of torture.
Author: Manfred Nowak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198846177
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1361
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"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."
Author: Association pour la prévention de la torture (Genève)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782940337279
Category : Torture (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Manfred Nowak
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199280001
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1649
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This volume provides a thorough commentary on the articles of the Convention against Torture, with historical context and analysis of relevant case law from monitoring bodie and international, regional and domestic courts.
Author: Ann Marie Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824222
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. Diplomacy of Conscience provides a rich account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights. To an extent unmatched by predecessors and copied by successors, Amnesty International has employed worldwide publicity campaigns based on fact-finding and moral pressure to urge governments to improve human rights practices. Less well known is Amnesty International's significant impact on international law. It has helped forge the international community's repertoire of official responses to the most severe human rights violations, supplementing moral concern with expertise and conceptual vision. Diplomacy of Conscience traces Amnesty International's efforts to strengthen both popular human rights awareness and international law against torture, disappearances, and political killings. Drawing on primary interviews and archival research, Ann Marie Clark posits that Amnesty International's strenuously cultivated objectivity gave the group political independence and allowed it to be critical of all governments violating human rights. Its capacity to investigate abuses and interpret them according to international standards helped it foster consistency and coherence in new human rights law. Generalizing from this study, Clark builds a theory of the autonomous role of nongovernmental actors in the emergence of international norms pitting moral imperatives against state sovereignty. Her work is of substantial historical and theoretical relevance to those interested in how norms take shape in international society, as well as anyone studying the increasing visibility of nongovernmental organizations on the international scene.
Author: H. Danelius
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478302
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Author: Bertie G. Ramcharan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004482296
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Author: Carlos Fernández de Casadevante Romani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642281400
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspective of victims, as well as by the enumeration of a list of rights to which they are entitle to; rights upon which the international statute of victims is built. In reverse, these catalogues of rights are the states’ obligations. Most of these rights are already existent in the international law of human rights. Consequently, they are not new but consolidated rights. Others are strictly linked to victims, concerning the following categories: victims of crime, victims of abuse of power, victims of gross violations of international human rights law, victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law, victims of enforced disappearance, victims of violations of international criminal law and victims of terrorism.
Author: Felipe Gómez Isa
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
ISBN: 8498308135
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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The international human rights system remains as dynamic as ever. If at the end of the last century there was a sense that the normative and institutional development of the system had been completed and that the emphasis should shift to issues of implementation, nothing of the sort occurred. Even over the last few years significant changes happened, as this book amply demonstrates. We hope that this Manual makes a contribution to the development of International Human Rights Law and is of interest for those working in the field of promotion and protection of human rights. The book is the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network led by the University of Deusto, and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice).
