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Panel Iv: Challenges To Proving Cases Of Torture Before The Committee Against Torture, Juan E. Mendez Jan 2013

Panel Iv: Challenges To Proving Cases Of Torture Before The Committee Against Torture, Juan E. Mendez

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Owning Justice And Reckoning With Its Complexity, Diane Orentlicher Jan 2013

Owning Justice And Reckoning With Its Complexity, Diane Orentlicher

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A series of developments, both doctrinal and political, seem to signify a retreat from earlier innovations in the law and practice of international justice. On closer examination, however, recent developments in international justice cannot be reduced to a single trend line. Even as various actors and processes continue to work out the ground rules for exercising jurisdiction in respect of human rights violations that international law condemns as criminal, and as international and national courts work through the inherently challenging project of redressing mass atrocities, states have increasingly internalized, owned and acted on the principle that they should ensure accountability …


Perspectives On Crimes Of Sexual Violence In International Law, Susana Sacouto Jan 2013

Perspectives On Crimes Of Sexual Violence In International Law, Susana Sacouto

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INTRODUCTION: Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during conflict and periods of repression has been a problem in every region of the globe.' Historically, these crimes were rarely prosecuted, particularly when government leaders were responsible for tolerating, encouraging, or orchestrating these crimes. However, the last two decades have seen an incredible transformation in the treatment of SGBV under international law. Great strides have been made in the investigation and prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes, particular by the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone This essay examines the way …