Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global JusticeWhen it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in international courts for genocide, torture, and mass murder. Since then, fearsome figures such as Charles Taylor, Laurent Gbagbo, and Ratko Mladic´ have been tried in international criminal court, and a global movement has rallied around the human rights framework of justice. Any such legal framework requires constant evolution in order to stay relevant, and this newly revised and expanded volume brings the conversation up to date. In substantial new chapters, Robertson covers the protection of war correspondents, the problem of piracy, crimes against humanity in Syria, nuclear armament in Iran, and other challenges we are grappling with today. He criticizes the Obama administration's policies around “targeted killing” and the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other “high value” detainees. By rendering a complex debate accessible, Robertson once again provides an essential guide for anyone looking to understand human rights and how to work toward a more complete blueprint for justice. |
Contents
Bring on The Diplomats | 421 |
The Law Takes its Course | 424 |
The Pinochet Precedent and The ICJ | 435 |
9 The Balkan Trials | 446 |
Establishing The ICTY | 448 |
THE LEGAL BASIS OF The ICTYand ICTR | 451 |
How The ICTY Operates | 460 |
The Tadic ́ Case | 469 |
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Realpolitik Rules OK | 90 |
The Srebrenica Question | 102 |
3 The Rights of Humankind | 108 |
Making Human Rights Rule | 110 |
International Crimes and The Rule Against Retrospectivity | 121 |
The Statute of Liberty | 125 |
Safety of The Person | 131 |
Individual Freedoms | 138 |
The Right to Fairness | 149 |
Judicial Independence | 160 |
Peaceful Enjoyment of Property | 169 |
4 Twentyfirst Century Blues | 175 |
Freedom From Execution | 176 |
Death Penalty Safeguards | 182 |
Minority Cultural and Indigenous Rights | 195 |
SelfDetermination | 207 |
The Question of Palestine | 216 |
Economic and Social Rights | 220 |
Labour Rights as Human Rights | 229 |
The Duties of Multinational Corporations | 232 |
A Right to Democracy? | 239 |
5 War Law | 246 |
In Search of The Just War | 251 |
The Geneva Conventions | 256 |
Good Conventions | 266 |
The Dogs of War | 288 |
War Reporting | 291 |
Child Soldiers | 298 |
6 An End to Impunity? | 301 |
International Crimes | 302 |
The Nazi Leaders | 306 |
The Trial | 309 |
Judgment Day | 313 |
Nuremberg and Tokyo | 316 |
Towards Universal Jurisdiction | 324 |
The Nuremberg Legacy | 342 |
7 Slouching Towards Nemesis | 351 |
Out of This Blackness | 354 |
The Duty to Prosecute | 359 |
The Limits of Amnesty | 367 |
Amnesties in International Law | 372 |
Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice | 383 |
The Case for Retribution | 398 |
8 The Case of General Pinochet | 404 |
An Arrest in Harley Street | 406 |
The State in International Law | 412 |
Sovereign Immunity | 414 |
Individual Responsibility | 476 |
The Rwanda Tribunal ICTR | 483 |
The MiloŠevic ́ Trial | 486 |
KaradŽic ́ Mladic ́ and The ICTY Legacy | 495 |
10 The International Criminal Court | 502 |
The Politics | 503 |
The Statute | 508 |
International Crimes | 512 |
Criminal Law Principles | 522 |
The Court | 525 |
The Trial | 532 |
The Aftermath | 546 |
The ICC ten years on | 550 |
11 Justice in Demand | 560 |
Lessons From Sierra Leone | 563 |
The Killing Fields of Cambodia | 574 |
Long Ago and Far Away | 580 |
The Case of East Timor | 584 |
Trials of The Arab Spring | 595 |
The Lebanon Tribunal | 602 |
Syria Lethal Force and The Right to Protest | 603 |
911 and Beyond | 608 |
Enemies of Humankind? | 610 |
Making War Means Making Law | 614 |
SelfDefence | 619 |
The Road to Guantanamo Bay | 628 |
Targeted Killings | 640 |
Fair Trials for International Terrorists? | 656 |
The Crime of Terrorism | 668 |
The Case ofSaddam Hussein | 676 |
Give War a Chance | 681 |
The Bush Doctrine and Beyond | 691 |
Regime Change | 697 |
The Occupation of Iraq | 705 |
Abu Ghraib | 708 |
The Trial of Saddam Hussein | 720 |
Bombingfor Humanity | 728 |
The Right of Humanitarian Intervention | 733 |
We Bombed in Kosovo | 745 |
Just War | 755 |
The Responsibility to Protect | 760 |
The Gaddafi Precedent | 767 |
The Aftermath Laurent Gbagbo | 780 |
Epilogue | 784 |
Notes | 804 |
Human Rights in History | 852 |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 861 |
Ratifications of Human Rights Conventions | 868 |
Excerpts from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | 870 |
Excerpts from the Charter of the United Nations | 883 |
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