Download or read book The Protection of Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice written by M. Cherif Bassiouni and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing the Death Penalty
Download or read book Compendium of United Nations Standards and Norms in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice written by Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (United Nations) and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Two. HUMAN RIGHTS
Download or read book Human Rights In The Administration Of Justice written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by New York and Geneva : United Nations. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent legal professionals play a key role in the administration of justice and the protection of human rights. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers need access to information on human rights standards laid down in the main international legal instruments and to related jurisprudence developed by universal and regional monitoring bodies. This publication, which includes a manual and a facilitator's guide, seeks to provide a comprehensive core curriculum on international human rights standards for legal professionals. It includes a CD-ROM containing the full electronic text of the manual in pdf format.
Download or read book The Protection of Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice written by Alfred de Zayas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation brings together all the relevant procedural norms and standards applicable to criminal processes, whether national, regional, or international. The instruments are systematically arranged, and the category listing is in chronological order. The procedural instruments are exhaustive, providing the reader with a single comprehensive source for all these norms and standards. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Download or read book International Law and Justice written by John R. Rowan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from the papers presented at the twenty-third International Social Philosophy Conference held in July of 2006 at University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia --Preface.
Download or read book Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication contains the 'Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework', which were developed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. The Special Representative annexed the Guiding Principles to his final report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/17/31), which also includes an introduction to the Guiding Principles and an overview of the process that led to their development. The Human Rights Council endorsed the Guiding Principles in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011."--P. iv.
Download or read book Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors written by Egbert Myjer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Manual is a practical aid. The principles to be applied by prosecutors in their daily work are to be found in international instruments, regional instruments and commentaries as enacted in domestic law. The Manual introduces practitioners to issues and principles of universal and regional application - practitioners in individual jurisdictions may then marry the applicable principles to provisions of the domestic laws of their own jurisdictions and thus obtain a complete code of conduct for any part of the world and for any official procedure. The Manual includes comments that may assist in that process by putting the quoted texts in a practical context."
Download or read book The United Nations Rule of Law Indicators written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building and strengthening the 'rule of law' in developing nations, particularly countries in transition or emerging from a period of armed conflict, has become a central focus of the work of the United Nations. As a result, there is a growing demand throughout the United Nations system to better understand the delivery of justice in conflict and post-conflict situations and the impact of developments in this area. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in cooperation with other United Nations departments, agencies, funds and programmes, have developed an instrument to monitor changes in the performance and fundamental characteristics of criminal justice institutions in conflict and post-conflict situations. The instrument consists of a set of indicators, the United Nations Rule of Law indicators. This guide describes how to implement this instrument and measure these indicators"--P. v.
Download or read book Anti Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda written by Karen Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.
Download or read book International Courts and Tribunals written by William Schabas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning about a century ago, but with a dramatic acceleration of the process in the final decades of the 1900s, international courts and tribunals have taken a prominent place in the enforcement of international law, the maintenance of international peace and security and the protection and promotion of human rights. This book addresses the great diversity of these institutions, their structures and legal frameworks and their contribution to the international rule of law.
Download or read book The United Nations and Human Rights written by Philip Alston and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the UN's contribution to international human rights, and the desire to ensure that governments are held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others. This book offers a comprehensive and expert analysis and critique of UN instruments and organs, and of the new UN Human Rights Council.
Download or read book The United Nations Principles to Combat Impunity written by Frank Haldemann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading experts in the field, this volume provides comprehensive academic commentary on the UN Principles to Combat Impunity. The book features the text of each of the 38 Principles, along with a full analysis, detailed commentary, and a guide to relevant literature and case law.
Download or read book World Report 2019 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Download or read book The Law of International Human Rights Protection written by Walter Kälin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Kalin and Kunzli's authoritative book provides a concise but comprehensive legal analysis of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels. It shows that human rights are real rights creating legal entitlements for those who are protected by them and imposing legal obligations on those bound by them.
Download or read book The Core International Human Rights Treaties written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication reproduces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the nine core international human rights treaties and their optional protocols in a user-friendly format to make them more accessible, in particular to government officials, civil society, human rights defenders, legal practitioners, scholars, individual citizens and others with an interest in human rights norms and standards.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law written by Dinah Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides an authoritative and original overview of one of the key branches of international law. Forty contributors comprehensively analyse the role of human rights in international law from a global perspective, examining its origins and principles, and measuring its impact on the world.
Download or read book Intricate Links written by Joan M. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eastern Europe and Latin America two trends are under way: 1) far-reaching reforms to convert economies from inward-oriented, state-dominated models to more open, market-driven approaches; and 2) efforts to consolidate democratic political openings replacing earlier authoritarian regimes. These reforms often conflict, yet paradoxically the success of each is crucial to the other. Building on earlier case studies in both regions this volume explores issues common to both regions and critical to the prospects of economic and political reforms, with contributions from Joan Nelson, Jacek Kochanowicz, Kalman Mizsei, and Oscar Munoz.
