Peoples Tribunals Human Rights And The Law

Author : Regina Menachery Paulose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429534876
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law written by Regina Menachery Paulose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People’s Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities. As such, they offer society an alternative history and create a space for healing and reconciliation to take place that may otherwise be stifled by political agendas and legal technicalities. Since the 1960’s, People’s Tribunals have grown and developed to address many kinds of situations, from genocide to environmental degradation. This book presents a balance of academic and practitioner perspectives on People’s Tribunals. It explores key questions relating to their formation and roles and discusses what they can offer to victims and survivors. The volume provides an introduction to the subject, theoretically informed discussion reflecting different perspectives, and a range of contributions focusing on different types of People’s Tribunals and various aspects of their operation. The authors analyse advantages and disadvantages of these movements in a variety of contexts. The impact and contribution they have in the international criminal law and international human rights context is also discussed. The book will be welcomed by those interested in international criminal law, human rights, environmental justice, transitional justice and international relations.

Author : Regina Menachery Paulose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429244674
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People's Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law written by Regina Menachery Paulose and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People's Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities. As such, they offer society an alternative history and create a space for healing and reconciliation to take place that may otherwise be stifled by political agendas and legal technicalities. Since the 1960's, People's Tribunals have grown and developed to address many kinds of situations, from genocide to environmental degradation. This book presents a balance of academic and practitioner perspectives on Peoples' Tribunals. It explores key questions relating to their formation and roles and discusses what they can offer to victims and survivors. The volume provides an introduction to the subject, theoretically informed discussion reflecting different perspectives, and a range of contributions focusing on different types of Peoples' Tribunals and various aspects of their operation. The authors analyse advantages and disadvantages of these movements in a variety of contexts. The impact and contribution they have in the international criminal law and international human rights context is also discussed"--

Author : Andrew Byrnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386164
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peoples' Tribunals and International Law written by Andrew Byrnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peoples' Tribunals and International Law is the first book to analyse how civil society tribunals implement and develop international law. With contributions covering tribunals in Europe, Latin America and Asia, this edited collection provides cross-disciplinary academic and activist perspectives and unique insights into the phenomenon of peoples' tribunals. Written by academics in law, anthropology and international relations, it also incorporates the reflections of civil society activists and advocates on peoples' tribunals. The collection includes chapters ranging from the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, successor to the Bertrand Russell Tribunal established to question the legality of the Vietnam War, to recent tribunals addressing atrocities in Soeharto's Indonesia and violations against migrants in Europe. Peoples' Tribunals and International Law offers the first sustained analysis of the different approaches to international law in tribunal proceedings. It will interest scholars of law, criminology, human rights, politics, sociology, anthropology and international relations.

Author : Krit Zeegers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462651027
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Criminal Tribunals and Human Rights Law written by Krit Zeegers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the interpretation and application of human rights norms by International Criminal Tribunals (ICTs). Such Tribunals are widely heralded as human rights defenders. At the same time, however, they employ activities that necessary entail the risk of human rights violations: they conduct criminal investigations, arrest and detain individuals, and put them on trial. This book investigates this flip-side of the ICTs’ relationship with international human rights law, and focuses on the ICTs’ own interpretation and application of human rights norms. First, the book addresses whether and how ICTs are bound by human rights law, since unlike states, they do not sign or ratify human rights conventions. Second, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the way in which ICTs interpret and apply human rights norms, compared to the way in which these norms are interpreted in a traditional state-context. Relying on the unique circumstances in which they operate, ICTs have often deviated from generally accepted interpretations of human rights. The author critically examines this so-called contextual approach and seeks to recommend ways in which ICTs can improve their interpretative practice by giving due regard to the context in which they operate, while still providing adequate human rights protection. Addressing the ICTs’ possible leeway in terms of contextualization, this book contributes to the broader debates about adherence to human rights norms in international law. Krit Zeegers is an Associate at Allen & Overy LLP, Amsterdam, and previously worked as a researcher / junior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

Author : Martin Scheinin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499732
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Norms in ‘Other' International Courts written by Martin Scheinin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role and impact of human rights norms in international courts other than human rights courts

Author : Gerd Oberleitner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789811052057
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts written by Gerd Oberleitner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so. It traces the rationale of setting up international institutions, courts, and tribunals with the aim of ensuring respect for international human rights law and presents their historic development, and critically analyzes their contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, it asks which promises old and new (and envisaged) human rights institutions hold for safeguarding human rights in light of continuing violations and recent global trends in human rights and politics. The first section presents institutions created within the framework of the United Nations. The second part of the volume assesses how international criminal tribunals have reframed human rights violations as individual criminal acts. The third part of the volume is devoted to established and emerging regional human rights bodies and courts around the world.

Author : Ruti Teitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911681
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanity's Law written by Ruti Teitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security. As she demonstrates, courts, tribunals, and other international bodies now rely on a humanity-based framework to assess the rights and wrongs of conflict; to determine whether and how to intervene; and to impose accountability and responsibility. Cumulatively, the norms represent a new law of humanity that spans the law of war, international human rights, and international criminal justice. Teitel explains how this framework is reshaping the discourse of international politics with a new approach to the management of violent conflict. Teitel maintains that this framework is most evidently at work in the jurisprudence of the tribunals-international, regional, and domestic-that are charged with deciding disputes that often span issues of internal and international conflict and security. The book demonstrates how the humanity law framework connects the mandates and rulings of diverse tribunals and institutions, addressing the fragmentation of global legal order. Comprehensive in approach, Humanity's Law considers legal and political developments related to violent conflict in Europe, North America, South America, and Africa. This interdisciplinary work is essential reading for anyone attempting to grasp the momentous changes occurring in global affairs as the management of conflict is increasingly driven by the claims and interests of persons and peoples, and state sovereignty itself is transformed.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independent People's Tribunal written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saskia E. Wieringa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429764952
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide written by Saskia E. Wieringa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965. This book offers new and previously unpublished insights into the types of crimes committed in the 1965 genocide and how these crimes were prosecuted at the International People’s Tribunal for 1965. Divided thematically, each chapter analyses a different crime – enslavement, sexual violence, torture – perpetrated during the Indonesian killings. The contributions consider either general patterns across Indonesia or a particular region of the archipelago. The book reflects on how crimes were charged at the International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and focuses on questions relating to the place of people’s tribunals in truth-seeking and justice claims, and the prospective for transitional justice in contemporary Indonesia. Positioning the events in Indonesia in 1965 within the broader scope of comparative genocide studies, the book is an original and timely contribution to knowledge about the dynamics of the Indonesian killings. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian studies, in particular Southeast Asia, Genocide Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Transitional Justice Studies.

Author : Courtney Hillebrecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040221
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals written by Courtney Hillebrecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own constituents. The international legalization of human rights now makes it possible for individuals to take human rights claims against their governments at international courts such as the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights. This book brings together theories from international law, human rights and international relations to explain the increasingly important phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings. It argues that this is an inherently domestic affair. It posits three overarching questions: why do states comply with human rights tribunals' rulings? How does the compliance process unfold and what are the domestic political considerations around compliance? What effect does compliance have on the protection of human rights? The book answers these through a combination of quantitative analyses and in-depth case studies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom.