Research Catalog

Title

International organizations and the fight for accountability : the remedies and reparations gap / Carla Ferstman.

Author

Ferstman, Carla, 1968-

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

xii, 221 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This title analyses the challenges citizens face obtaining remedies and reparation for harm suffered as a result of the actions of international organisations. It encourages reflection on additional measures to strengthen accountability.

Subject

• International agencies
• International cooperation > Social aspects
• International agencies > Rules and practice
• International agencies > Law and legislation
• Humanitarian law
• International Agencies
• international organizations
• 86.87 law of international organizations: general
• Menschenrecht
• Humanitäres Völkerrecht
• Corporate Governance
• Internationale Organisation
• Soziale Verantwortung

Genre/Form

Rules.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- International organizations' obligations under human rights and international humanitarian law -- Human rights and international humanitarian law breaches attributable to international organizations -- The obligation to afford reparation to injured individuals -- Internal adjudication by international organizations -- Challenging the conduct of international organizations before domestic courts -- Adjudication before regional and international courts -- The direct responsibility of organization employees, contractors and troop contingents -- Some concluding thoughts : where the solutions lie.

ISBN

• 9780198808442
• 0198808445

LCCN

2017945343

OCLC

• on1002925869
• 1002925869
• SCSB-8802298

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library