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Crimes against humanity : the struggle for global justice / Geoffrey Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Geoffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Human rights movements.
- Crimes against humanity.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 758 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press ; Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.
- Summary:
- Weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international community to bring tyrants and torturers to heel.
- Contents:
- The human rights story
- The post-war world
- The rights of humankind
- Twenty-first century blues
- War law
- An end to impunity
- Slouching towards nemesis
- The case of General Pinochet
- The Balkan trials
- The International Criminal Court
- The Guernica paradox: bombing for humanity
- Terrorism: 9/11 and beyond
- Toppling tyrants: the case of Saddam Hussein.
- Notes:
- Also published in Great Britain by Penguin Group.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1595580719
- 9781595580719
- OCLC:
- 80014574
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