Geoffrey Robertson

Bad People

And How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights

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At a time when international criminal law is faltering, the global justice movement must look to local Magnitsky laws as a means of naming, blaming and shaming human rights violators.Sergei Magnitsky was a Moscow tax lawyer who was tortured and killed for exposing Russian state corruption. In 2012, President Obama ratified the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, but this applied only to Russian officials. Although several countries have extended the law to include all listed human rights abusers, no initiatives currently go far enough.In this powerful book, Geoffrey Robertson tells Magnitsky's story and examines the connection be… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78590-670-1
EAN: 9781785906701
Produktnummer: 35377793
Verlag: Biteback Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Geoffrey Robertson QC has had a distinguished career as a trial and appellate counsel in Britain and in international courts and as a UN appeal judge, the first president of its war crimes court in Sierra Leone. He is founder and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers, Europe's largest human rights practice, a master of the Middle Temple and a former trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. His book Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice has been an inspiration for the global justice movement and in 2011 he received the New York Bar Association's award for distinction in international law and affairs. In 2018, he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to human rights. His autobiography, Rather His Own Man: In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers, was published by Biteback in 2018.