Christine Evans

The Right to Reparation in International Law for Victims of Armed Conflict

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using a range of case studies, Christine Evans analyses efforts to implement the right to reparation in international law for victims of armed conflict and explores the role of the UN in promoting State responsibility for reparations through transitional justice measures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019973
• ISBN-10: 1107019974
• Artikelnr.: 35062181

Autorenporträt

Christine Evans is a staff member of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, objectives and method; Part I. Responsibility and Legal
Standards: 2. State responsibility, the international legal order and
development of legal norms for victims; 3. Human rights jurisprudence on
reparations, international and regional; 4. Victims' rights in
international criminal law; 5. Legal state of play: convergence of
international law and reparation as an individual legal right with
customary recognition; Part II. Transferring Standards into Reality: 6. The
role of the UN, promotion of victims' rights and reparations in practice;
7. Case study: reparations in Guatemala; 8. Case study: reparations in
Sierra Leone; 9. Case study: reparations in East Timor; 10. Case study:
reparations in Colombia; 11. Reparations in practice: comparative analysis
of practice, lessons learnt and future challenges; 12. The right to
reparation and implementation of the legal norm: emerging convergence of
law and practice?