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Crimes against humanity : the struggle for global justice / Geoffrey Robertson.

Title
Crimes against humanity : the struggle for global justice / Geoffrey Robertson.
Author
Robertson, Geoffrey
Publication
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.

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xxxiv, 758 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"For centuries it seemed an impossible dream that international institutions could ever tell nation-states how to treat their own citizens. But after a century in which 160 million lives have been wasted by war, genocide, and torture, the worldwide human rights movement is gaining popular and political strength." "Geoffrey Robertson, one of the world's leading human rights lawyers, weaves together disparate strands of history, philosophy, international law, and politics to show how an identification of the crime against humanity, first defined at Nuremberg, has become the key that unlocks the closed door of state sovereignty, enabling the international community to bring tyrants and torturers to heel." "This newly revised and expanded edition features additional chapters on Iraq and Guantanamo, and incorporates insights from the author's experience since 2002 as a UN appeals judge for the Special Court on war crimes in Sierra Leone. Robertson also brings us up to date on the trials against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein and the International Criminal Court at Darfur."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Crimes against humanity
  • Human rights
  • Crimes against humanity > Law and legislation
  • Human rights movements
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 6;28-662) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781595580719 (pbk)
  • 1595580719 (pbk)
OCLC
80014574
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library