Prosecuting international crimes and human rightsabuses committed against children: leading international court cases

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analyzed from a children’s human rights perspective and the question is examined asto what extent the international courts are according these children justice. INDICE: Part I: An Introduction to the Organizational Structure, Enabling Statutes, Case Processing Procedure, and Jurisdiction of the International Courts: The Inter-American Human Rights System.- European International Human Rights Court System.- The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts of Rwanda and the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia.- The Special Court of Sierra Leone.- The International Criminal Court.- Part II: The International Human Rights Courts: Inter-American Court of Human Rights.- European Court of Human Rights.- Part III: The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts: Rwanda, Case 5: Sylvestre Gacumbitsi v. The Prosecutor.- Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, Case 6: Miroslav Bralo v. The Prosecutor.- Part IV: The International Hybrid Criminal Courts: Special Court of Sierra Leone: Case 7: Prosecutor v. Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa.- Case 8: Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu.- Part V: The International Criminal Court (The Hague), Case 9: The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-00517-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 950
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés