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The Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala

Author : William J Aceves
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431235
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala written by William J Aceves and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, victims of human rights abuses have filed civil lawsuits in U.S. courts. This litigation provides victims a voice and promotes accountability for violations of international law. This is the story of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, one of the most significant examples of human rights litigation in the U.S., presented as a documentary history – an approach to legal scholarship that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Unlike traditional casebooks, this book emphasizes the dynamic nature of law. The pleadings and documents appear with minimal editing and are supplemented through commentary by various litigation participants. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts

Author : Beth Stephens
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9047431723
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts written by Beth Stephens and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading human rights litigators and theorists, this treatise offers a comprehensive analysis of human rights litigation in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Statute and related provisions.

Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda

Author : Karen Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110707987X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda written by Karen Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World

Author : Sanja Bahun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317001753
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Gender in the Globalized World written by Sanja Bahun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the world, discussing various contexts including Chechnya, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Syria, South Africa, the United States, and the Internet. Bringing together scholars’ and activists’ historicized and site-specific perspectives, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice concerning violence, gender, and agency. In this revised and updated edition, the scope of inquiry is expanded to incorporate phenomena that have recently come to the forefront of public and scholarly scrutiny, such as Internet-based discourses of violence, female suicide bombers, and the Islamic State’s violence against women. At the same time, new data and developments are brought to bear on earlier discussions of violence against women across the globe in order to bring them fully up to date. With an international team of contributors, comprising eminent scholars, activists and policy-makers, this volume will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality, human rights, cultural studies, law, sociology, political science, history, post-colonialism and colonialism, anthropology, philosophy and religion.

American Transitional Justice

Author : Natalie R. Davidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477704
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book American Transitional Justice written by Natalie R. Davidson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how two landmark transnational human rights lawsuits operated as transitional justice mechanisms in the former Western bloc.

The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law

Author : Darryl Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192558889
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law written by Darryl Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe the evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of the core international crimes, the applicable modes of liability and defences, and the role of states in prosecuting international crimes. The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, however, takes a theoretically informed and refreshingly critical look at the most controversial issues in international criminal law, challenging prevailing practices, orthodoxies, and received wisdoms. Some of the contributions to the Handbook come from scholars within the field, but many come from outside of international criminal law, or indeed from outside law itself. The chapters are grounded in history, geography, philosophy, and international relations. The result is a Handbook that expands the discipline and should fundamentally alter how international criminal law is understood.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World

Author : Sanja Bahun-Radunovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351143344
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Violence and Gender in the Globalized World written by Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence, discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics, the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization, adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists, this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such, it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality, human rights, cultural studies, political science, history, postcolonialism and colonialism, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and religion.

The International Criminal Responsibility of War's Funders and Profiteers

Author : Nina H. B. Jørgensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108483615
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The International Criminal Responsibility of War's Funders and Profiteers written by Nina H. B. Jørgensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about money, war, atrocities and economic actors, about the connections between them, and about responsibility.

Human Rights Litigation against Multinationals in Practice

Author : Richard Meeran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192635956
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Litigation against Multinationals in Practice written by Richard Meeran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough review of multinational human rights litigation in various countries where such litigation has been pursued, predominantly on behalf of victims in the Global South. It covers cases relating to environmental damage, occupational disease, human rights abuses involving complicity with state security, and in the context of supply chains. The volume is edited by Richard Meeran, who pioneered the first series of tort-based multinational parent company cases in the 1990s and whose firm, Leigh Day, has been at the forefront of this area for almost 30 years. Contributions come from highly experienced legal practitioners in the countries in question who have run many of the key ground-breaking cases, and who understand the opportunities and hurdles that arise in practice. They provide their perspectives and insights into the features of the relevant laws, procedures, and practical considerations in their respective legal systems. Chapters address the potential legal remedies that are available; the legal, procedural, and practical obstacles to justice including funding; as well as strategic issues. This developing area of corporate legal accountability has increasingly become an integral part of the field of business and human rights, which has grown significantly in recent decades. This collection is an essential guide to the field.

Lawyers Beyond Borders

Author : Maria Armoudian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047212904X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Lawyers Beyond Borders written by Maria Armoudian and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems’ structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles—political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical—a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.

Historical Dictionary of Human Rights

Author : Jacques Fomerand
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123061
Total Pages : 973 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Human Rights written by Jacques Fomerand and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights explores both the theory and the practice of international human rights with a focus on the norms and institutions that make up the “architecture” of the global human rights regime and the tools, processes and procedures through which such norms are realized and “enforced.” Particular attention is given to the contextual political and sociological factors that shape and constrain the operation and functioning of international human rights institutions and their state and non-state actors. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on terminology, conventions, treaties, intergovernmental organizations in the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations, as well as some of the pioneers and defenders. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about human rights.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business

Author : Surya Deva
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178643640X
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Human Rights and Business written by Surya Deva and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative Research Handbook brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to provide in-depth analysis of some of the most hotly debated topics and issues concerning the interface of human rights and business. Offering critical insights on prominent strands of research within the field of business and human rights, this comprehensive Research Handbook examines key challenges and potential solutions in the field.

The Many Lives of Transnational Law

Author : Peer Zumbansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490263
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Transnational Law written by Peer Zumbansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years after Jessup's Transnational Law Lectures, this collection traces the field's development and significance to the present day.

Civilizing Torture

Author : W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244702
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Civilizing Torture written by W. Fitzhugh Brundage and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.” —David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not torture, but that belief has repeatedly been challenged in moments of crisis at home and abroad. From the Indian wars to Vietnam, from police interrogation to the War on Terror, US institutions have proven far more amenable to torture than the nation’s commitment to liberty would suggest. Civilizing Torture traces the history of debates about the efficacy of torture and reveals a recurring struggle to decide what limits to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving and an erosion of limits on military power, the debate over torture remains critical and unresolved.

Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror

Author : Gershon Shafir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415638410
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Lessons and Legacies of the War on Terror written by Gershon Shafir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny that terror has prevailed - not as a specific enemy, but as a way of life. This book examines the social, cultural, and political drivers of the war on terror through the framework of a 'political moral panic'.

Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars

Author : David Kohut
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873745
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars written by David Kohut and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of 'The Dirty Wars' focuses on the period 1954-1990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on the countries; guerrilla and political movements; prominent guerrilla, human-rights, military, and political figures; local, regional, and international human-rights organizations; and artistic figures (filmmakers, novelists, and playwrights) whose works attempt to represent or resist the period of repression.

The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights

Author : John Bessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110898858X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights written by John Bessler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights details how capital punishment violates universal human rights-to life; to be free from torture and other forms of cruelty; to be treated in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner; and to dignity. In tracing the evolution of the world's understanding of torture, which now absolutely prohibits physical and psychological torture, the book argues that an immutable characteristic of capital punishment-already outlawed in many countries and American states-is that it makes use of death threats. Mock executions and other credible death threats, in fact, have long been treated as torturous acts. When crime victims are threatened with death and are helpless to prevent their deaths, for example, courts routinely find such threats inflict psychological torture. With simulated executions and non-lethal corporal punishments already prohibited as torturous acts, death sentences and real executions, the book contends, must be classified as torturous acts, too.