Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability : Comparative and International Perspectives.

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This edited volume discusses the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lessa, Francesca
Otros Autores: Payne, Leigh A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Amnesty.
Human rights.
Liability (Law)
Amnistie.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Responsabilité (Droit)
Amnesty
Human rights
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; AMNESTY IN THE AGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; AMNESTY IN THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY; THE AMNESTY DEBATE; BOOK OUTLINE; CONCLUDING REMARKS; PART I Theoretical Framework; 1 The Age of Accountability; HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY: THREE MODELS; THE RISE OF THE INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY MODEL; THE ANTI-APARTHEID CONVENTION; DISAPPEARANCES AND A NEW GOVERNMENT OBLIGATION TO PUNISH; INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WAR CRIMES; DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS PROSECUTIONS ACCELERATE.
  • THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIATHE CREATION OF THE ICC; FOREIGN HUMAN RIGHTS PROSECUTIONS BEGIN AND ACCELERATE; CONCLUSIONS; 2 The Amnesty Controversy in International Law; TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS; Prosecutorial Obligations; Right to Remedy; Prohibitions on Statutory Limitations; Nonderogable State Obligations; CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW; INTERNATIONAL COURT RULINGS; CONCLUSION; PART II Comparative Case Studies; 3 Amnesties' Challenge to the GlobalAccountability Norm?; WHY "MAP" AMNESTY LAWS?; DEFINING AMNESTIES; DATABASE DESIGN: TABLES AND VARIABLES.
  • DATA COLLECTION: CONTEXTS, SCOPE, AND SOURCESGLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRENDS IN AMNESTY ADOPTION, 1979-2011; Amnesty Trends by Year; Amnesty Laws by Region; Amnesty Laws by Political Crises; Amnesties and Crimes under International Law; Amnesty Trends and the Global Accountability Norm; CONCLUSION; 4 From Amnesty to Accountability; FROM OVERTURNING THE MILITARY SELF-AMNESTY TO IMPUNITY (1983-1989); Transition to Democracy and Annulment of the Military Self-amnesty; The Military on Trial; Military Unrest and Government Reversal: The Full Stop and Due Obedience Laws; Accountability Impasse.
  • CHALLENGING IMPUNITY: HUMAN RIGHTS MOBILIZATION AT HOME AND ABROAD (1989-2003)Impunity and the Political Weakening of the Military; Human Rights Mobilization: Circumventing Impunity and Challenging Amnesty; OVERTURNING IMPUNITY LAWS AND REOPENING TRIALS (2003 TO THE PRESENT); Crisis and Reversal of Government Human Rights Policies; Judicial Dismantling of Amnesty; Posttransitional Justice Trends; CONCLUSION; 5 Barriers to Justice; HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE "SWITZERLAND OF THE AMERICAS"; THE DEFEAT OF HOPE: THE LEY DE CADUCIDAD; The Ley de Caducidad.
  • AN UPHILL STRUGGLE: CHALLENGING THE LEY DE CADUCIDAD, 1986-2011The "Voto Verde" Campaign; Under International Scrutiny; Fighting Impunity "at Home"; The First Interpretative Law; The Ballot Box Again?; The Sabalsagaray Case; From Montevideo to San José de Costa Rica; A Second Interpretative Law; IMPUNITY IN URUGUAY: SOME TENTATIVE EXPLANATIONS; The Framework of Transition; The Ley de Caducidad and the Executive; The Judiciary; The "Voluntad Popular"; CONCLUSION; 6 Resistance to Change; TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN BRAZIL; Reparations; Institutional Reform; Truth and Memory.

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