Overview
- A critical introduction to the past, present, and future of human rights institutions
- Multi-disciplinary approach to the legal and political aspects of human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals
- Examines a wide range of human rights institutions from all over the globe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Human Rights (IHR)
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Table of contents (25 entries)
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United Nations Human Rights Institutions
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Human Rights Violations as Crimes: International Courts and Tribunals
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
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gerd Oberleitner is UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security and Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz and Associate Professor of International Law at the Institute of International Law and International Relations, also at the University of Graz. He has served as Legal Adviser in the Human Rights Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, was Lecturer in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Fellow at the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and has taught and researched at the European Inter-University Centre in Venice, the Université du Quebéc à Montréal, the University of Ljubljana, Prishtina, and Rutgers University. He teaches in the Global Campus of Regional Human Rights Master Programmes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Human Rights Institutions, Tribunals, and Courts
Editors: Gerd Oberleitner
Series Title: International Human Rights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5206-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5205-7Published: 08 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5206-4Published: 25 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8841
Series E-ISSN: 2523-885X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 623
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations, International Criminal Law