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Pursuing elusive justice : mass crimes in India and relevance of international standards
- Title
- Pursuing elusive justice : mass crimes in India and relevance of international standards / edited by Vahida Nainar, Saumya Uma ; foreword by Upendra Baxi.
- Publication
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- xviii, 475 pages; 23 cm
- Alternative Title
- Mass crimes in India and relevance of international standards
- Subjects
- India
- Impunity
- Human rights
- Crime
- Criminal law
- India > Social conditions
- International criminal law
- Impunity > India
- Victims of crimes > Legal status, laws, etc > India
- Human rights > India
- Crime > India
- Criminal justice, Administration of > India
- Criminal law > India
- Dalits > Social conditions
- Social history
- Dalits > India > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Vahida Nainar -- Impunity writ large : a study of crimes committed during anti-Veerappan operations / Saumya Uma -- Persecution of the Dalits : the need to raise standards of accountability / Maya Nair -- Persecution of sexual minorities : relevance of the ICC / Siddharth Narrain -- Understanding enforced disappearances / V. Seshaiah Shasthri -- Severe punishments and the ICC : significance for the Indian penal regime / Bikram Jeet Batra -- Law reform on sexual and gender-based crimes in mass violence / Saumya Uma -- Integrating victims' rights in the Indian legal framework / Saumya Uma -- Significance of global justice in the war against terror / Arvind Narrain -- ICC and the Indian military justice system : complementarities / U.C. Jha -- Torture by private actors : introducing a legal discourse in India / Vahida Nair -- Genocide : international standards and their application to India / Priya Pillai -- Crimes against humanity in India : towards a legal understanding / Vahida Nair -- International terrorism : a crime against humanity? / Shruti Bedi.
- ISBN
- 9780198079996
- 0198079990
- LCCN
- 2013319913
- OCLC
- ocn848588047
- 848588047
- SCSB-5736223
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries