Individual responsibility in international law for serious human rights violations
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Individual responsibility in international law for serious human rights violations
(International studies in human rights, v. 21)
M. Nijhoff , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic, c1992
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-222) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What rules of international law make the individual, even a Head of State, responsible for perpetrating serious human rights violations, such as war crimes, torture or genocide? This question is becoming more critical in our increasingly interdependent world, and the recent invasion of Kuwait and the brutalization of its people by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has heated up the debate even further.
The author argues that a new rule of international law stipulating individual responsibility for all serious human rights violations is currently emerging. To show how this is coming about, he explores relevant norms in classic laws of war, international humanitarian law and modern international human rights law and surveys patterns in their implementation. He then takes account of codification efforts of the International Law Commission, the changing position of the individual in international law, and other important developments in the context of general international law as an evolving system.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations. Table of Treaties, Table of Cases. Resolutions of UN General Assembly. I. Introduction. II. Individual Responsibility in Positive Laws of War. III. Individual Responsibility in International Human Rights Law. IV. Patterns of Implementation. V. Codification of International Responsibility. VI. The Position of the Individual in International Law. VII. Emergence of a General Rule of Individual Responsibility for Serious Human Rights Violations. Annex: Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind. Bibliography. Index.
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