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Tables of Contents for Crimes Against Humanity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword to the Paperback Edition
i
Kenneth Roth
Preface to the Paperback Edition
xiii
Introduction
xxi
The Human Rights Story
1
36
In the Beginning: Natural Rights
Revolutions and Declarations
The Nineteenth Century: Bentham, Marx and the Humanitarian Impulse
Between Wars: The League of Nations and Stalin's Show Trials
H. G. Wells: What are We Fighting For?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Post-war World
37
48
1946-76: Thirty Inglorious Years
The Human Rights Commission: A Permanent Failure?
The Civil Covenant and Its Human Rights Committee
Some Enforcement at Last: The European Convention, and Other Regions
Realpolitik Rules OK
The Srebrenica Question
The Rights of Humankind
85
46
Making Human Rights Rule: The International Law Paradox
The Statute of Liberty
Safety of the Person
Individual Freedoms
The Right to Fairness
Peaceful Enjoyment of Property
Twenty-first Century Blues
131
48
Freedom from Execution
Death Penalty Safeguards
Minority Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Self-determination
Economic and Social Rights
A Right to Democracy?
War Law
179
39
In Search of the Just War
The Geneva Conventions
Good Conventions
The Dogs of War
An End to Impunity?
218
42
The Nuremberg Legacy
International Criminals: Pirates, Slavers and Kaisers
The Nazi Leaders: Summary Execution?
The Trial
Judgment Day
Victor's Justice?
Towards Universal Jurisdiction (Genocide, Torture, Apartheid)
Slouching Towards Nemesis
260
43
Into This Blackness
The Duty to Prosecute
The Limits of Amnesty
Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice
The Case for Retribution
The Balkan Trials
303
43
Legal Basis of the Hague Tribunal
How the Tribunal Operates
The Tadic Case
Individual Responsibility
Milosevic on Trial
The International Criminal Court
346
47
Rome 1998: The Statute
International Crimes
The Court
The Trial
The Future
The Case of General Pinochet
393
34
An Arrest in Harley Street
The State in International Law
Sovereign Immunity
Bring On the Diplomats
The Law Takes Its Course
The Guernica Paradox: Bombing for Humanity
427
46
The Right of Humanitarian Intervention
We Bombed in Kosovo
Just War
The Case of East Timor
Lessons from Sierra Leone
Terrorism: 11 September and Beyond
473
44
Enemies of Humankind?
Making War Means Making Law
The Ignoble Art of Self-defence
Fair Trials for Terrorists? (Juries, Military Commissions, The Lockerbie Alternative, UN Tribunals)
No End of a Lesson
Epilogue
517
20
Notes
537
68
Appendices
A: Human Rights in History
567
7
B: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
574
9
C: Ratifications of Human Rights Treaties
583
2
D: Excerpts from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
585
13
E: Excerpts from the Charter of the United Nations
598
7
Index
605