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Impunity and human rights in international law and practice
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Impunity and human rights in international law and practice

Author: Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Beginning with a general consideration of theories of punishment and redress for victims, Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice explores how international law provides guidance on issues of investigation, prosecution, and compensation. It reviews some of the more well-known historical examples of societies grappling with impunity, including those arising from the Second World War and from the
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Naomi Roht-Arriaza
ISBN: 0195081366 9780195081367
OCLC Number: 30360642
Description: xiii, 398 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Punishment, redress, and pardon : theoretical and psychological approaches / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Sources in International treaties of an obligation to investigate, prosecute, and provide redress / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Nontreaty sources of the obligation to investigate and prosecute / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Special problems of a duty to prosecute : derogation, amnesties, statutes of limitation, and superior orders / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Overview / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Decommunization after the 'velvet revolutions' in East Central Europe / Kathleen E. Smith --
Problems in blaming and punishing individuals for human rights violations : the example of the Berlin wall shootings / Suzanne Walther --
Destalinization in the former Soviet Union / Kathleen E. Smith --
Romania : a persistent culture of impunity / Edwin Rekosh --
Punishing human rights abusers in fledgling democracies : the case of Argentina / Jaime Malamud-Goti --
Chile : truth and justice under the democratic government / Jorge Mera --
Haiti : searching for alternatives / Irwin P. Stotzky --
El Salvador : a negotiated end to impunity? / Margaret Popkin --
Overview / Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Human rights debacle in the Philippines / Belinda Aquino --
Human rights in Cambodia / Michael Vickery and Naomi Roht-Arriaza --
Zimbabwe : drawing a line through the past / Richard Carver --
South Africa : negotiating change? / Lynn Berat.
Responsibility: edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza.
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Beginning with a general consideration of theories of punishment and redress for victims, Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice explores how international law provides guidance on issues of investigation, prosecution, and compensation. It reviews some of the more well-known historical examples of societies grappling with impunity, including those arising from the Second World War and from the fall of the Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese dictatorships in the 1970s. Country studies from around the world look at how the problem of impunity has been dealt with in practice in the last two decades. The work then distills these experiences into a general discussion of what has and hasn't worked. It concludes by considering the role of international law and institutions in the future, especially given renewed interest in international mechanisms to punish wrong-doers.

As individuals, governments, and international organizations come to grips with histories of repression and impunity in countries around the world, the need to define legal procedures and criteria for dealing with past abuses of human rights takes on a special importance. Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice aims to share their experiences in the hope that lawyers, scholars, and activists in those countries where dealing with the past is only now becoming an imperative may learn from those who have recently confronted similar challenges. This work will be essential reading for lawyers, political and social scientists, historians and journalists, as well as human rights experts concerned with this important issue.

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