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Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]
, 2012 In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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National Mechanisms for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 The field of atrocity crimes prevention has witnessed a trend over the previous three to four years in which states around the world are employing a new approach to the development and implementation of preventive policies.
Samantha Capicotto, Rob Scharf
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Proving Genocide? Forensic Expertise and the ICTY [PDF]
, 2008 This article works towards developing a theoretical framework outlining the premises and parameters under which forensic experts operate during various stages of international criminal investigations and the presentation of expert witness testimony in ...
Klinkner, Melanie Josefine
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Excesses of responsibility: the limits of law and the possibilities of politics [PDF]
, 2011 Since 1945 responsibility for atrocity has been individualized, and international tribunals and courts have been given effective jurisdiction over it.
Ainley, Kirsten
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Moving Upstream and Going Local: The Responsibility to Protect Ten Years Later
Politics and Governance, 2015 Ten years ago the international community pledged to protect civilians from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by endorsing the responsibility to protect (R2P) doctrine.
Bridget Moix
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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2019 The ongoing Burundi crisis offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize the changing political economy of preventive framing of violence, and particularly genocide as a representational resource in prevention.
Andrea Purdeková
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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 The present article aims to confront the Swiss practice regarding the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities in Swiss foreign policy and its particularities shaping its international relations.
Giulia Persoz
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Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2018 In September 2013, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon adopted the Human Rights Up Front (HRUF) initiative and communicated his decision in a letter to staff in November through a recommitment, on behalf of the senior leadership and all staff, to uphold the ...
Ekkehard Strauss
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The responsibility to protect as humanitarian negotiation: a space for the ‘politics of humanity’? [PDF]
, 1980 This article first situates the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) in relation to humanitarianism and the ‘politics of humanity’ through which common humanity is understood, negotiated and defended in response to ‘crises of humanity’.
Radice, Henry
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R2P’s “Ulterior Motive Exemption” and the Failure to Protect in Libya
Politics and Governance, 2015 Mass atrocity prevention has been controversial, both when members of the international community have taken action as well as when they have failed to do so.
Jeffrey Bachman
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