International Criminal Law : Crimes Against Humanity and Human Rights Issues

• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 16 December 1966, and its optional protocols, one setting up individual complaints procedure, and another second protocol aimed at abolition of the death penalty.
• Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Adopted by General Assembly resolution 3452 (XXX) of 9 December 1975.
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman o Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984.
• Principles of Medical Ethics relevant to the Role of Health Personnel, particularly Physicians, in the Protection of Prisoners and Detainees against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Adopted by General Assembly resolution 37/194 of 18 December 1982.
• A further collection of conventions and rules on the following: Rights of those facing the death penalty, code of conduct for law enforcement officials and their use of firearms, role of prosecutors, minimum rules for non-custodial measures, administration of juvenile justice, guidelines for prevention of juvenile delinquency, basic principles on independence of the judiciary, transfer of proceedings, transfer of supervision of offenders, enforced disappearances, and summary executions. All collected in full text under “human rights in the administration of justice“at the site of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

• Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of 4 November, 1950, ETS No. 5, as amended by protocol No. 11 of 11 May 1994.
• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of 26 November 1987, ETS No. 126 and two amending protocols.
• European convention on the supervision of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders of 30 November 1964, ETS No. 51.
• European convention on the international validity of criminal judgments of 28 May 1970, ETS No. 70.
• European convention on the transfer of proceedings in criminal matters of 15 May, 1971, ETS No. 73.
• European convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitation to crimes against humanity and war crimes of 25 January 1974, ETS. No. 82.
• European convention on the control of the acquisition and possession of firearms by individuals of 28 June 1978, ETS No. 101.
• Convention on the transfer of sentenced persons of 31 March 1983, ETS No. 112.
• European convention on the compensation of victims of violent crimes of 24 November 1983, ETS No. 116.

• American Convention on Human Rights “<a href="https://www.oas.org/en/prog/juridico/english/ Treaties /b-32.htm/”>Pact of San Jose, Costa Rica“.
• Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to abolish the death penalty.
• Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons .
• Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture .

• African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted June 27, 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982), entered into force Oct. 21, 1986.

• U.N. Human Rights Committee
• European Court of Human Rights
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  Click on “human rights” from pull-down menu for links to the Court and the Commission.
• The Cambodian Genocide Program
  The Cambodian Genocide Program is studying the events of the Pol Pot era, to learn as much as possible about the tragedy, and to help determine who was responsible for the crimes of this regime. The bibliographic database contains records on some 2,000 primary and secondary documents dealing with atrocities in the Khmer Rouge regime.
• Major War Criminals/Suspects
  Links to sources including articles from newspapers to create an extensive list of criminals/suspects and their alleged atrocities.

• Bassiouni, M. Cherif. Crimes against humanity in International Criminal Law . 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, MA : Kluwer Law International, 1999.
• __________________ and Ziyad Motala, eds. The Protection of human rights in African criminal proceedings. Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1995.
• __________________, ed. with the collaboration of Alfred de Zayas. The Protection of human rights in the administration of criminal justice: a compendium of United Nations norms and standards. Irvington, NY: Transnational Publishers; Geneva: Centre for Human Rights United Nations; 1994.
• Matas, David. No more: the battle against human rights violations. Towards the new millennium series; [edited by Dennis Mills].: Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994.
• Ratner, Steven R. Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law: beyond the Nuremberg legacy . Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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American Convention on Human Rights, European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman, Human Rights Committee, Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Criminal Law, Treaties.