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Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Human Rights Watch
This unique 861-page volume from Human Rights Watch organizes
the ICTY’s decisions by topic, including war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity, command responsibility, sentences, fair trial rights and guilty pleas. It applies the law to the facts of selected cases covering atrocities such as the Srebrenica massacre, the siege of Sarajevo, and brutalities perpetrated in camps such as the infamous "Omarska camp" in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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The Witnesses
War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The HagueEric Stover
University of Pennsylvania Press
Best Book in Human Rights Award from the American Political Science Association
The APSA's Human Rights committee’s citation follows:
Eric Stover’s study constitutes an important contribution to the growing literature on international justice and accountability. Written by a scholar with considerable field experience, The Witnesses examines a relatively neglected area of the international judicial process: the role of victims and witnesses who have testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Drawing vividly on their testimony, Stover adeptly reveals a hidden side of international tribunals. The Witnesses also challenges conventional wisdom about truth-telling and justice, suggesting that politics always mediates this complex relationship. In addition, the book raises many other critical issues, in particular questions relating to the rights and entitlements of witnesses, as well as to the nature and extent of the obligations of international and hybrid tribunals towards them.
In his concluding remarks, the author offers a series of sensible suggestions on ways to ensure that the needs of prosecution and defense witnesses, before these tribunals, are better met. This is a timely and provocative book, a prime example of how analytically informed human rights scholarship can capture the humanity of its subjects, while being attentive to power considerations. In recognition of this achievement, the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association is both pleased and honored to select The Witnesses as the Best Book in Human Rights for 2005.
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Eliminating Corporal Punishment
The Way Forward to Constructive Child Discipline
Stuart N. Hart, Editor
A UNESCO Publication
This publication clarifies the human rights imperative and logical dictates of child development knowledge for eliminating corporal punishment of children. It provides guidance for selecting and applying constructive disciplinary practices that respect the human dignity of children. The publication was commissioned by UNESCO’s Education Sector.
The publication includes three major sections: 1 The Human Rights Imperative for Ending All Corporal Punishment of Children; 2 Corporal Punishment: Prevalence, Predictors and Implications for Child Behavior and Development; and 3 The Way Forward to Constructive Child Discipline.
Authors:
- Chapter 1: Peter Newell, Joint Coordinator, Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children.
- Chapter 2: Professor Joan Durrant, Head of Family Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Chapter 3: F. Clark Power, Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA and Stuart N. Hart.
Editor:
Stuart N. Hart, Deputy Director, International Institute for Child Rights and Development, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Crimes of the Holocaust
The Law Confronts Hard Cases
Stephan Landsman
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
University of Pennsylvania Press
Prof. Bert Lockwood, Series Editor
The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes. This volume will be compelling reading for legal scholars as well as laypersons interested in these cases and the issues they address.
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The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco
Susan Slyomovics
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
University of Pennsylvania Press
Prof. Bert Lockwood, Series Editor
The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco is a unique distillation of politics, anthropology, and performance, offering both a clear picture of the present state of human rights and a vision of a possible future for public protest and dissidence in Morocco.
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The Pinochet Effect
Transnational Justice in the Age of Human RightsNaomi Roht-Arriaza
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
University of Pennsylvania Press
Prof. Bert Lockwood, Series Editor
"Naomi Roht-Arriaza has produced a modern day version of Hannah Arendt's classic Eichmann in Jerusalem. Although nonfiction, The Pinochet Effect reads like a novel, eloquently recounting the saga and consequences of one of the most important cases of our time."
--Michael P. Scharf, author of Slobodan Milosevic on Trial
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