II New Titles
| Published date | 01 December 2009 |
| Date | 01 December 2009 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/016934410902700414 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
662 Intersentia
II NEW TITLES
Advocating for Accountability: Civic-state interactions to protect refugees in South
Africa / Jerey David Handmaker. – Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009. – xiv, 258 p. – (School
of Human Rights Resea rch series; no. 33)
ISBN: 978–90–5095–910–0
is PhD thesis di scusses the dynamics of civ ic-State interactions aimed at the
State’s obligations to promote, protect and ful l human rights. rough the lens of
refugee rig hts advocacy in S outh Africa in the rst decade of its post-1994 period of
democracy, th is book exa mines and explains the circumstances under which civic-
State interactions can lead to structura l change, and what these interactions can teach
us about the potential of civic so ciety to realise rights in genera l.
Amnesty Internat ional Report 2009: e State of the World’s Human Rights / A mnesty
International. – London: Amnesty International, 2009. – 405 p. – (Amnesty International
report; 2009)
ISBN: 978–0–86210–444 –3
is report documents the st ate of human rights in 157 countries and territories
around the world in 20 08. It reveals a world where systematic discriminat ion and
insecurit y hamper full implementation of progress made in law; where equa lity and
human r ights remain good intensions as opposed to good practice. It reveals also a
world where States too oen pick and choose the rights they w ill uphold, and those
they will suppress. e main part of the book is a country-by-country survey of human
rights, from Afgh anistan to Zimbabwe.
e Eectiveness of Internationa l Criminal Justice / Cedric Ryngaert (ed.). – Antwerp:
Intersentia, 2009. – xx vi, 278 p.
ISBN: 978–90–5095–812–7
is volume ascertains t he added value of international crimin al tribunals in ghting
impunity for crimes against international law and fostering political reconciliation
in aected States. It aims to identify best practices which may inform the choice
between t he establishment of internat ional criminal tribunals and recourse to other
mechanisms, a nd which may render existi ng or future tribuna ls more eective
institutions. e rst pa rt analyses how such tribunals cou ld be eective institutions.
It wi ll be argued t hat eectiveness will, for a large part, depend on factors outside
the tr ibunal’s control, such a s the presence of the right pol itical parameters and the
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