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The struggle against enforced disappearance and the 2007 United Nations convention /
Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge is widespread today and on the increase in other continents. For more than twenty-five years, relatives of disappeared people worldwide have insisted on the pressing need for an international legally binding instrument against enforced disappearances. 2006 is the year of the adoption of the Interna. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 432 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-426) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047430773 9047430778 1281936332 9781281936332 9786611936334 6611936335 |