| Notes: | "This volume details an exception under international law to permissible detention, the "state of emergency" exception, as defined in various regional and multilateral human rights treaties. This volume includes many international efforts to define when an 'emergency' exists or can be declared, as a state cannot improperly invoke an emergency as a pretext in order to detain arbitrarily. The volume also deals with two evolving topics related to detention: the right to habeas corpus (the right to challenge one's own detention), and the intersection between international human rights law and international humanitarian law. If the nature of the detention does not fall under any permissible category, it might be considered a crime against humanity or a war crime and this a violation of international humanitarian law. The lines in modern warfare between international human rights law concerns and international humanitarian law concerns have become increasingly blurred, in light of the global efforts against terrorism and the threats from non-state as well as state-sponsored actors. This volume includes many documents across the international human rights law and international humanitarian concerns, stretching from World War II through to the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, and Libya."--Page 1-2.
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