Human rights and criminal justice for the downtrodden : essays in honour of Asbjørn Eide /
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Boston : M. Nijhoff ; Herndon, VA : [sold and distributed] in North America, Brill Academic, c2003. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 825 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5174282 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- Part 1. International Criminal Law
- I.. The origin and evolution of crimes against humanity: an uneasy encounter between positive law and moral outrage
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Origins of crimes against humanity
- 3.. Contemporary evolution through international jurisprudence
- 4.. The ICC Statute
- 5.. Conclusion
- II.. The influence of the European Court of Human Rights on international criminal tribunals--some methodological remarks
- 1.. Introduction: the international criminal judge and the sources of law
- 2.. A transversal analysis of the influence of the European Court on the case law of the international criminal tribunals
- 3.. Concluding remarks
- III.. Criminalizing individuals for acts of aggression committed by States
- 1.. The leap from establishing a principle to grappling with its contents
- 2.. Is the crime of aggression fundamentally distinguishable from other international crimes and, if so, why?
- 3.. Defeating aggressive war as an instrument of national policy
- 4.. Criminalization requires a clear and predictable definition of acts of aggression
- 5.. Institutional mechanisms to determine an act of aggression and there-by to trigger the Court's jurisdiction
- 6.. Clarifications are needed with regard to the principles of criminal law applicable to individual responsibility in the context of the definition of the crime, but also the determination by other bodies of an act of aggression
- 7.. Essential underpinnings of the International Criminal Court
- 8.. Applying the principle of complementarity to the crime of aggression
- 9.. In guise of concluding observations
- IV.. Acts of terrorism and crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Terrorism and the mandate of the IMT
- 3.. Forum and venue--the convenience of the ICC
- 4.. On war
- 5.. The characteristics of terrorism
- 6.. Ius ad bellum and ius in bello
- 7.. The Statute of the ICC
- 8.. Some concluding remarks
- V.. Contemporary universal jurisdiction
- 1.. Definition
- 2.. A long-established principle
- 3.. The broad range of crimes subject to universal jurisdiction around the world
- 4.. Setbacks and victories since the Pinochet case
- 5.. Overcoming the obstacles to universal jurisdiction
- VI.. The first ever international trial on genocide: notes on Akayesu
- 1.. Brief summary of the case
- 2.. The significance of the Trial Chamber's judgement
- 3.. What the Appeals Chamber added
- 4.. Conclusions on Akayesu
- VII.. How do human rights humanize the law of war?
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The classic law of war
- 3.. The thresholds of applicability of humanitarian law
- 4.. Personal applicability of humanitarian law treaties: redefining "protected persons"
- 5.. Repatriation of prisoners of war and personal autonomy
- 6.. Application of humanitarian law by human rights organs
- 7.. Some concluding thoughts
- VIII.. Impact of human rights conventions on the two ad hoc Tribunals
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. General observations
- 3.. Material jurisdiction
- 4.. CCPR article 14 and the Tribunals
- 5.. Other rights
- 6.. Concluding observations
- Part 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- IX.. Development, capabilities, rights: what is new about the right to development and a rights approach to development?
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Development from growth to human agency, capabilities and rights
- 3.. Human development and the relationship to human rights
- 4.. The right to development and development compacts
- 5.. A rights approach to development--value added?
- 6.. Concluding remarks
- X.. Genetic resources for food and agriculture: International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and other international agreements negotiated through the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 3.. Other international instruments developed or being developed by the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 4.. Final remarks
- XI.. Human rights and humanitarian action: the right to food in armed conflict
- 1.. Humanitarianism at the crossroads?
- 2.. The changing context
- 3.. Humanitarian principles
- 4.. The international legal framework
- 5.. International law and humanitarian action in practice: in search of an ethical framework
- 6.. Conclusion
- XII.. Defining cultural rights
- 1.. Definition of culture and cultural rights
- 2.. The architecture of Article 15 of the ICESCR
- 3.. Related rights
- 4.. Cultural identity and diversity
- 5.. Access to and participation in cultural life
- 6.. Conservation and diffusion of culture
- 7.. Cultural co-operation
- 8.. Protection of cultural property from loss
- 9.. Protection of creators, transmitters and interpreters of culture
- 10.. Final remarks
- XIII.. The long process of giving content to an economic, social and cultural right: twenty-five years with the case of the right to adequate food
- 1.. Introduction: everything has a beginning
- 2.. The initial test: how to operationalise an ESCR, for whom and by whom--the case of food and nutrition
- 3.. A human right in search of content--the debate in the early 1980s
- 4.. Further elaboration of a framework within which to identify specific state obligations for the right to food
- 5.. The first study for the United Nations
- 6.. Networking and consolidation of the right to food movement
- 7.. The right to food at the World Food Summit, Rome 1996: leverage and follow-up
- 8.. Towards implementation: triggering national dialogues
- 9.. The right to food as an entry point to understanding and operationalizing economic, social and cultural rights
- 10.. Bringing it together--towards international guidelines for implementation of the right to food
- XIV.. Development co-operation and the right to development
- 1.. The operational model of the Right to Development--Development Compact (RTD-DC)
- 2.. The importance of economic growth in the right to development
- 3.. Operational elements
- 4.. CDF/PRSP/CCA-UNDAF frameworks
- 5.. Shared principles and basic difference with the RTD-DC model
- 6.. Analysis of the rights-based norms in the different frameworks
- 7.. NEPAD: the New Partnership for Africa's Development
- 8.. Conclusion: overview of development co-operation
- XV.. The obligation of international assistance and co-operation in the International Conventant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The theory of obligations
- 3.. Extraterritorial obligations in the ICESCR
- 4.. Implications
- XVI.. Business and human rights
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Developments in corporate codes of conduct
- 3.. Drafting history of the human rights responsibilities
- 4.. Issues regarding implementation
- 5.. Conclusion
- Part 3. Minority and Related Rights
- XVII.. The Greenlanders and their human rights choices
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The rights of indigenous peoples
- 3.. Peoples and the right of self-determination
- 4.. Concluding observations
- XVIII.. Protection of kin-minorities: international standards and Russian practice
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The definition of minorities
- 3.. Protecting minorities at the international and national level: the Russian example
- 4.. Conclusion
- XIX.. The contemporary protection of minorities
- 1.. The historical basis for the protection of minorities
- 2.. The protection of minorities at the universal level
- 3.. The protection of minorities in Europe
- 4.. Implementation
- 5.. Conclusion
- XX.. Minority rights: additional rights or added protection?
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Critique of the "separate nature" of minority rights
- 3.. Defence of interdependence
- 4.. Does non-discrimination suffice?
- XXI.. The Hague, Oslo and Lund Recommendations regarding minority questions
- 1.. Language issues
- 2.. Educational issues
- 3.. Participation of minorities in public life
- XXII.. The United Nations Sub-Commission Working Group on Minorities: what protection for minority rights?
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The establishment of the Working Group
- 3.. Participation in, and working methods of, the Working Group
- 4.. Promoting a better understanding of the United Nations Declaration
- 5.. Contribution of the Working Group to the protection of minority rights
- Part 4. Other Human Rights Issues
- XXIII.. "Political" and "legal" control mechanisms revisited
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Realities and perspectives towards the end of the Cold War
- 3.. Strengths and weaknesses of charter-based and treaty-based mechanisms
- 4.. Time for reassessment
- 5.. The post-Cold War climate and the Vienna Conference
- 6.. Human rights treaty monitoring in progress
- 7.. The charter-based mechanisms; proliferation but also progress?
- 8.. Concluding remarks
- XXIV.. Citizenship and human rights: some thoughts on a complex relationship
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Citizenship and human rights treaties as "contractual relationships"
- 3.. Conceptions of citizenship
- 4.. Nation-building as extensions of citizenship rights in Europe
- 5.. Paradoxes of modern citizenship
- 6.. Human rights and citizenship: the "problem" of sovereignty
- 7.. The human rights approach
- 8.. Conclusion
- XXV.. International human rights law, the environment and indigenous peoples
- 1.. An overview
- 2.. Inter-linkages between human rights and the environment
- 3.. International human rights instruments
- 4.. Indigenous peoples and the environment
- 5.. Contemporary non-binding law
- 6.. Conclusions
- 7.. Selected decisions and recommendations by international and regional treaty bodies
- 8.. Some relevant cases
- XXVI.. Terrorism and human rights after 2001
- 1.. The "ordinary" meaning of the word "terrorism"
- 2.. How to define terrorism in legal terms
- 3.. How do terrorism and anti-terrorism campaigns affect human rights?
- XXVII.. La lutte contre l'impunite
- 1.. Lutte contre l'impunite et distinction entre droits civils et politiques, et droits economiques et sociaux
- 2.. Precisions ou complements a apporter aux principes
- 3.. Les Commissions non judiciaires d'enquete
- 4.. La compensation pour l'esclavage et la colonisation
- 5.. Adoption de l'ensemble de principles par l'Assemblee generale
- XXVIII.. National human rights institutions implementing human rights
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. What is a national human rights institution?
- 3.. Monitoring and advising--law or politics?
- 4.. National institutions and ESCR?
- 5.. The role of national institutions in relation to regional and international human rights mechanisms
- 6.. Concluding remarks
- XXIX.. Some reflections on the rules and practices followed by the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Procedural framework of the Sub-Commission
- 3.. The relationship between the guidelines and the ECOSOC rules
- 4.. Conclusion
- XXX.. Treatment of persons deprived of liberty: analysis of the Human Rights Committee's case law under Article 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
- 1.. Article 10: the right of all persons in custody to be treated humanely
- 2.. Article 10(1)
- 3.. The Uruguay years
- 4.. The Jamaica years
- 5.. Article 10(2)
- 6.. Article 10(3)
- XXXI.. Struggling against racism in the aftermath of 11 September 2001
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. The combat against terrorism
- 3.. Racism and racial discrimination
- 4.. Globalisation
- XXXII.. Leadership in human rights
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Pre-League of Nations
- 3.. Inter-war leaders
- 4.. The Nuclear Commission on Human Rights
- 5.. The Commission on Human Rights
- 6.. The Sub-Commission
- 7.. The Secretaries-General
- 8.. The heads of the United Nations human rights programme
- 9.. Assessment
- 10.. Current challenges
- 11.. The future
- 12.. Conclusion
- XXXIII.. The sources of fundamental rights of the European Union: a structural overview
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. A general structure
- 3.. Comments to the general structure
- 4.. Trends and prospects
- XXXIV.. Human rights for children
- 1.. The human rights instruments concerning children
- 2.. Do children have human rights?
- 3.. The best interest of the child
- 4.. Parents' rights and children's rights
- 5.. Final remarks
- XXXV.. Reflections on human rights, sovereignty of states and the principle of non-intervention
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. Human rights as a problem of implementation
- 3.. State sovereignty: the need for a proper understanding
- 4.. State sovereignty and non-intervention
- 5.. Is there a case for an international standard on the use of force by states in humanitarian crises?
- 6.. In conclusion
- XXXVI.. Droits de l'homme et pratiques traditionnelles
- 1.. Introduction
- 2.. L'origine des pratiques traditionelles
- 3.. Les femmes, victimes des pratiques traditionnelles
- Bibliography
- Index
