Book Review: Organizing and repression: in the university of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996
| Date | 01 March 2000 |
| Published date | 01 March 2000 |
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190001800121 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Documentation
Organizing and repression: in the university
of
San Carlos, Guatemala, 1944 to 1996 /
Paul Kobrak. - New York: American Association for the Advancement
of
Science, 1999. -
xi, 171 p.
ISBN: 0-87168-630-9
The goal
of
this investigation is to document the history
of
deliberate and sustained'
violence by State forces against students and intellectuals during Guatemala's armed
conflict. The report hopes to contribute to Guatemala's ongoing process
of
historical
clarification. It establishes State responsibility for extra-judicially killing and
disappearances
of
students and intellectuals, and it puts this violence in historical and
political context to explain why so many lives were lost during these years
of
repression.
Remedies in international human rights law / Dinah Shelton. - Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999. - xli, 387 p.
ISBN: 0-19-829859-5
This book reviews the jurisprudence
of
international tribunals that have jurisdiction and
competence to afford remedies to individuals whose human rights have been violated. It
also looks at the comparative law
of
remedies, especially as reflected in national judicial
decisions based on international human rights law. While the problems
of
systematic abuse
and developing appropriate responses to it are discussed, with particular reference to the
work
of
the United Nations, the focus is not on criminal prosecution and punishment. Nor
does it consider responses to human rights violations that are intended to prevent further
abuse rather than redress past injury, such as humanitarian intervention, sanctions and
boycotts. The central concern is with the relationship between individual victims and the
state causing injury, as well as with the powers and functions
of
the various international
and national tribunals that have jurisdiction over human rights cases. The aim is to propose
a theoretical foundation for human rights remedies, together with standards and principles
on which future remedies may be based.
Violence against women: a report / Carin Benninger-Budel and Anne-Laurence Lacroix. -
Geneva: World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), 1999. - 294 p.
During the last decade violence against women has been recognised as a human rights
violation. Previously, the international community considered it as a private matter
between individuals and not as a human rights problem in the public domain, demanding
responses from the governments or the international community. Today, many concrete
commitments to tackle violence against women exist at the international level. The first
part
of
this report seeks to provide an understanding
of
the international human rights
framework and its weaknesses in addressing adequately violence against women. The
second part discusses the reality
of
situations
of
violence against women in different
countries around the world as well as the developments and implementation
of
international women's rights at that level.
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