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Nova Southeastern University

2005

Human rights

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The Applicability Of International Human Rights Law To The Coalition Provisional Authority (Cpa) And Foreign Military Presence In Iraq, Ralph Wilde Jan 2005

The Applicability Of International Human Rights Law To The Coalition Provisional Authority (Cpa) And Foreign Military Presence In Iraq, Ralph Wilde

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

When the prisoner abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq, broke in the Spring of 2004, Lord Lester, a British Parliamentarian, submitted a written parliamentary question to the U.K. government asking the following: [W]hether the Coalition Provisional Authority or the Coalition Forces are required by law to respect the fundamental human rights of Iraqi people, as defined in the bill of rights contained in the transitional administrative law for Iraq or otherwise; and if not, what recourse is available to the people of Iraq for breaches of those rights by the Authority or the forces.


The International Criminal Court And Human Rights Enforcement In Africa, Obasi Okafor-Obasi Jan 2005

The International Criminal Court And Human Rights Enforcement In Africa, Obasi Okafor-Obasi

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The inauguration of a permanent tribunal for the prosecution of serious crimes has raised anew the problem of enforcement of human rights in international law.