Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in international courts for genocide, torture, and mass murder.Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal framework requires constant evolution in order to stay relevant,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59558-860-9
- EAN: 9781595588609
- Produktnummer: 12907465
- Verlag: New Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 959 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D5.3 cm 1'089 g
- Auflage: 4. A.
- Gewicht: 1089
Über den Autor
Geoffrey Robertson was the first president of the Sierra Leone Special Court (which indicted Charles Taylor) and has delivered important rulings on the illegality of recruiting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties. He was appointed as a distinguished jurist member of the UN's Justice Council in 2008, and he acted for Human Rights Watch in the Pinochet case. His clients have ranged from Salman Rushdie to Mike Tyson, and he is currently defending Julian Assange. Robertson lives in London.
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