Format:
243 Seiten
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9462702497
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9789462702493
Content:
Human rights prosecutions are the most prominent mechanisms that victims demand to obtain accountability. Dealing with a legacy of gross human rights violations presents opportunities to enhance the right to justice and promote a more equal application of criminal law, a fundamental condition for a more substantive democracy in societies. This book seeks to analyse the impact, advances, and difficulties of prosecuting perpetrators of mass atrocities at national and international levels. What role does criminal justice play in redressing victims’ wrongs, guaranteeing the non-repetition of mass atrocities, and attempting to overcome the damage caused by systematic human rights violations? This volume addresses critical issues in the field of human rights prosecution by drawing on the experiences of a variety of post-conflict and authoritarian countries covering three world regions. Contributing authors cover prosecutions in post-Nazi Germany, post-Communist Romania, and transnational legal complaints by victims of the Franco dictatorship, as well as domestic and third-country prosecutions for human rights violations in the pioneering South American countries of Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, prosecutions in Darfur and Kenya, and the work of the International Criminal Court. The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions offers insights into the difficulties human rights trials face in different contexts and regions, and also illustrates the development of these legal procedures over time.
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Literaturangaben, Register
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Human rights trials without human rights law : prosecuting Nazi crimes in postwar Germany after Nuremberg
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Courts as a site to tell the "truth" : the case of former prison commander Alexandru Vişinescu
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Seeking justice for the crimes of the Franco dictatorship : the politics of victimhood in the "Argentine legal complaint"
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The struggle of victims for human rights trials in post-dictatorship Chile
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The state against the state : the impact of governmental contradictions on human rights trials and victims in Argentina
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Operation Condor trials abroad : the innovation and domestic constraints of transnational prosecution
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Tensions between criminal trials and the sense of justice in post-conflict Peru
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The International Criminal Court's "Africa problem" and suppression of the "justice cascade"
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Conditions and cultural consequences of international criminal justice intervention : the case of Darfur
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The effects of seeking justice on behalf of the victim : a critical analysis of criminal trials in the Kenyan post-election violence transitional justice process
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789461663535
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The impact of human rights prosecutions Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2021 ISBN 9789461663535
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
Keywords:
Menschenrecht
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Menschenrechtsverletzung
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Strafverfolgung
Author information:
Figari Layús, Rosario
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