The struggle against enforced disappearance and the 2007 United Nations convention /

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Author / Creator:Scovazzi, Tullio.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11188123
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Other authors / contributors:Citroni, Gabriella.
ISBN:9789047430773
9047430778
9789004161498
900416149X
1281936332
9781281936332
9786611936334
6611936335
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-426) and index.
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Summary:Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge is widespread today and on the increase in other continents. For more than twenty-five years, relatives of disappeared people worldwide have insisted on the pressing need for an international legally binding instrument against enforced disappearances. 2006 is the year of the adoption of the Interna.
Other form:Print version: Scovazzi, Tullio. Struggle against enforced disappearance and the 2007 United Nations convention. Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ©2007 9789004161498 900416149X
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004161498.i-434