Product Description: The creation of a human rights court for Africa offers significant opportunities to secure a better life for all on the continent. So far, the potential of the African Court of Human Rights and Peoples' Rights (AfCHPR) in complementing the protective mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACommHPR) has remained largely unexplored...read more

Kaing Guek Eav, alias 'Duch', (born 1942), was the director of the Cambodian Security Prison S-21 between 1975 and 1979. Under his authority, countless violent acts were committed against the civilian population and he personally supervised torture. Duch was arrested and detained in May 1999 and indicted by the Cambodian Military Court for "crimes against domestic security and genocide, and subsequently with genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against internationally protected persons." In 2007, Duch was the first of the former Khmer Rouge leaders to appear before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Proceedings began in 2009, with the final verdict pronounced on July 26, 2010. The Trial Chamber found Duch guilty of crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and sentenced him to 35 years' imprisonment. However, Duch received a reduction of 5 years for his illegal detention by the Cambodian Military Court between May 10, 1999 and July 30, 2007. On Appeal in 2012, the Supreme Court Chamber of the ECCC overturned the 2010 decision of the Trial Chamber and sentenced Duch to life imprisonment, stating that "the Trial Chamber attached undue weight to mitigating circumstances and insufficient weight to the gravity of the crimes and aggravating circumstances in this case." (Series: International Courts and Tribunals Cases - Vol. 6)

Product Description: Human rights translate into international norms that help to protect people from all over the world from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Law and morale are the safeguards of these inalienable rights. Human rights invoke strong claims and even stronger sentiments...read more

Product Description: Human rights translate into international norms that help to protect people from all over the world from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Law and morale are the safeguards of these inalienable rights. Human rights invoke strong claims and even stronger sentiments...read more

Product Description: In June 1999, following a 78 day-long NATO campaign, the United Nations was tasked to govern Kosovo through its Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). UNMIK was given an unprecedented sweeping mandate to provide Kosovo with a "transitional administration, while establishing and overseeing the development of provisional democratic self-governing institutions to ensure conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all inhabitants in Kosovo...read more