The fall of dictatorial regimes and the eruption of destructive civil conflicts around the world
have led to calls for holding individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. This book …

International criminal law and justice is a flourishing field which has led, in recent years, to
new international criminal tribunals and new mechanisms for investigation and holding …

Cultural genocide is the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other
elements that make one group of people distinct from another. Cultural genocide remains a …

Genocide is one of the most heinous abuses of human rights imaginable, yet reaction to it by
European governments in the post-Cold War world has been criticised for not matching the …

For far too long the discipline of International Relations has failed to engage with the study of
genocide. This is despite the fact that genocide holds a direct relationship with the central …

Despite the growth in international criminal courts and tribunals, the majority of cases
concerning international criminal law are prosecuted at the domestic level. This means that …

This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and
classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing …

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights explores both the theory and
the practice of international human rights with a focus on the norms and institutions that …

To illuminate the inexplicable consistent referral to the contextual elements of the crime of
genocide contrary to the textual reading of the definition, this introductory chapter provides a …

This study was conducted to examine the importance of the existing Forensic Protocol
procedure adopted for the investigation of various crimes in Sindh, especially in the Karachi …