International criminal law and human rights / Claire de Than and Edwin Shorts.

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Publication details:
London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2003.
Record id:
24187
Subject:
Offenses against humanity.
Human rights -- Criminal provisions.
International law.
Criminal jurisdiction.
Civil rights.
Contents:
Part one: General Issues
1. Key concepts and basic definitions
2. Criminal jurisidiction and state immunity
3. State immunity: whether a state or its representatives can be brought before anothers state's courts without its consent
Part two: Specific crimes
4. Genocide
5. Crimes against humanity
6. War crimes
7. Torture
8. Terrorism
9. Uncommon crimes
Part three: Individual responsibility and impunity
10. International criminal courts for the indictment of individuals
Part four: Individual human rights in international criminal law
11. Women, sexual violence and international crime: a unifying example
Appendices
1. Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide
2. Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil action
3. United Nations convention on the law of the sea
4. Convention against torture and other cruel, unhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
5. European convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmnet Strasbourg, 26.XI.1987
6. The tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
7. Statute of the international criminal court
8. Rome statute of the international criminal court
9. Elements of crime
10. International convention for the suppression of terrorist bombing
11. International convention for the suppression of the financing or terrorism.
Note:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0421722509
Phys. description:
xlv, 500 p.