Description of Documents and Literature
| Date | 01 March 2001 |
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190101900109 |
| Published date | 01 March 2001 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
Part D: Documentation
DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS AND LITERATURE
Armed opposition groups in international law: the quest
for
accountability /Liesbeth
Zegveld. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. - xxvi, 302 p.
This Ph.D. thesis examines not only the international law governing the conduct
of
armed
opposition groups, it also evaluates the international legal accountability
of
different
actors involved in internal conflict, both for the acts
of
armed opposition groups and for
the failure to prevent or repress such acts. These actors are the State in which territory
armed opposition groups operate, the armed opposition groups themselves, and the
leaders
of
armed opposition groups. The term 'accountability' is employed to cover both
the applicable material obligations as well as aspects concerning the liability for
violations
of
these obligations. The main focus
of
the study is the identification
of
trends
in the practice
of
international bodies allocating accountability to the different actors for
their acts and omissions. It uses a broad selection
of
fifteen contemporary internal armed
conflicts from all continents as a frame
of
reference.
The Convention on the Elimination
of
All Forms
of
Discrimination Against
Women:
the
Optional Protocol: text and materials /United Nations Division for the Advancement
of
Women. - New York: United Nations, 2000. - 167 p.
ISBN: 92-1-130202-1
This publication traces the process leading to the adoption
of
General Assembly
resolution 54/4 on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination
of
All
Forms
of
Discrimination Against Women, and seeks to provide government officials,
scholars and activists with easy access to texts and materials on its development. Section I
provides an overview
of
the legislative history
of
the Optional Protocol, starting with
early suggestions made during the drafting process
of
the Convention in the 1970s.
It
describes the role
of
the Committee on the Elimination
of
All Forms
of
Discrimination
Against Women,
of
United Nations World Conferences, as well as the intergovernmental
bodies - most notably the Commission on the Status
of
Women - in the development
of
this instrument. Section II describes the main elements
of
the Optional Protocol, followed
by a chronology
of
events in section III. Section IV reproduces the documents referred to
and the volume concludes with a bibliography on the Optional Protocol.
Deliberative democracy and human rights /ed. by Harold Hongju Koh and Ronald C.
Slye. - London: Yale University Press, 1999. - vii, 317 p.
ISBN: 0-300-08167-7
In this collection
of
writings, leading legal and political thinkers address a wide range
of
issues that confront societies undergoing a transition to democratic rule. The book focuses
on some
of
the key questions that confront the international human rights movement
today. What is the moral justification for the concept and content
of
universal human
rights? What is the relationship among nation-building, constitutionalism, and
democracy? What are the political implications for a conception
of
universal human
rights? What is the relationship between moral principles and political practice? How
should a society confront what Kant called radical evil? And how docs a successor regime
Netherlands Quarterly
of
Human
Rights.
Vol.
19/1.113-116.
2001.
<0
Netherlands Institute
of
Human
Rights
(81M).
Printedin the Netherlands.
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