Crimes against humanity : the struggle for global justice / Geoffrey Robertson.
By: Robertson, Geoffrey
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Among other accomplishments, British barrister Robertson has appeared as counsel in many landmark human-rights cases, and he conducted missions for Amnesty International to South Africa and Vietnam during the 1980s. Here he identifies a shift from diplomacy to law as the crucial post-Cold War development in the world's efforts on behalf of human rights, and he writes authoritatively about history, the current situation in various parts of the world, and prospects for the future. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, provides an introduction. The book was originally published in the UK (1999, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press). Distributed by W.W. Norton. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-478) and index.
The human rights story -- The post-war world -- The rights of humankind -- Twenty-first century blues -- War law -- An end to impunity? -- Slouching towards Nemesis -- The Balkan trials -- The international criminal court -- The case of general pinochet -- The Guernica paradox: bombing for humanity -- Epilogue.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. xxiii)
- 1 The Human Rights Story (p. 1)
- In the Beginning: Natural Rights
- Revolutions and Declarations
- The Nineteenth Century: Bentham, Marx and the Humanitarian Impulse
- Between Wars: The League of Nations and Stalin's Show Trials
- H. G. Wells: What are We Fighting For?
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 2 The Post-war World (p. 35)
- 1946-76: Thirty Inglorious Years
- The Human Rights Commission: A Permanent Failure?
- The Civil Covenant and Its Human Rights Committee
- Some Enforcement at Last: The European Convention, and Other Regions
- Realpolitik Rules OK
- The Srebrenica Question
- 3 The Rights of Humankind (p. 80)
- Making Human Rights Rule: The International Law Paradox
- The Statute of Liberty
- Safety of the Person
- Individual Freedoms
- The Right to Fairness
- Peaceful Enjoyment of Property
- 4 Twenty-first Century Blues (p. 124)
- Freedom from Execution
- Death Penalty Safeguards
- Minority Rights
- Indigenous Peoples
- Self-determination
- Economic and Social Rights
- A Right to Democracy?
- 5 War Law (p. 167)
- In Search of the Just War
- The Geneva Conventions
- Good Conventions: Chemical, Nuclear and Conventional Weapons, and Land Mines
- The Dogs of War
- 6 An End to Impunity? (p. 203)
- The Nuremberg Legacy
- International Criminals: Pirates, Slavers and Kaisers
- The Nazi Leaders: Summary Execution?
- The Trial
- Judgment Day
- Victor's Justice?
- Towards Universal Jurisdiction (Genocide, Torture, Apartheid)
- 7 Slouching Towards Nemesis (p. 243)
- Into This Blackness
- The Duty to Prosecute
- The Limits of Amnesty
- Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice
- The Case for Retribution
- 8 The Balkan Trials (p. 285)
- Legal Basis of the Hague Tribunal
- How the Tribunal Operates
- The Tadic Case
- Individual Responsibility
- 9 The International Criminal Court (p. 324)
- Rome 1998: The Statute
- International Crimes
- The Court
- The Trial
- The Future
- 10 The Case of General Pinochet (p. 368)
- An Arrest in Harley Street
- The State in International Law
- Sovereign Immunity
- Bring On the Diplomats
- The Law Takes Its Course
- 11 The Guernica Paradox: Bombing for Humanity (p. 401)
- The Right of Humanitarian Intervention
- We Bombed in Kosovo
- Just War
- The Case of East Timor
- Epilogue (p. 437)
- Notes (p. 455)
- Appendices
- A Human Rights in History (p. 479)
- B Universal Declaration of Human Rights (p. 485)
- C Ratifications of UN Human Rights Conventions (p. 494)
- D Excerpts from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (p. 496)
- E Excerpts from the Charter of the United Nations (p. 506)
- Index (p. 513)