Overview
- Provides a critical introduction to the past, present, and future of institutions set up for the protection and promotion of human rights
- Brings together the legal and political aspects of human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals using a multi-disciplinary approach
- Surveys a wide range of human rights institutions from all over the globe
Part of the book series: International Human Rights (IHR)
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The first section presents institutions created within the framework of the United Nations. The second part of the volume assesses how international criminal tribunals have reframed human rights violations as individual criminal acts. The third part of the volume is devoted to established and emerging regional human rights bodies and courts around the world.
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Keywords
- human rights tribunal
- international humanitarian law
- international criminal law
- International Criminal Court
- International Military Tribunal
- transitional justice
- truth and reconciliation commission
- gender equality
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UN Human Rights Council
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- UN Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Nuremberg Trials
- Tokyo Trials
- European Court of Human Rights
- Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights
- Arab Human Rights Commission
- ASEAN Human Rights Commission
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Book Title: International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts
Editors: Gerd Oberleitner
Series Title: International Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4516-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Law and Criminology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4516-5Due: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8841
Series E-ISSN: 2523-885X
Number of Pages: X, 390
Topics: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, International Criminal Law