International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Table of cases......Page 14
Table of treaties......Page 20
UN General Assembly Resolutions......Page 36
UN Security Council Resolutions......Page 38
Miscellaneous......Page 39
Introduction......Page 43
PART I - NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS......Page 53
Introduction......Page 55
1 Rights and procedural capacity......Page 58
Rights......Page 59
Entitlement......Page 60
Universality......Page 66
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 68
Entitlement......Page 69
Conditionality......Page 76
Procedural capacity......Page 84
SUBSTANTIVE RIGHT TO A REMEDY......Page 85
INTERNATIONAL STANDING......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 96
2 Obligations and responsibility......Page 99
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 100
State obligations......Page 101
Individual obligations......Page 104
Conclusion......Page 115
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 117
The International Military Tribunal......Page 121
Subsequent war crimes trials......Page 125
Recent developments......Page 130
Violation by irregular armed forces......Page 132
Conclusion......Page 140
Responsibility......Page 144
ROLE OF RESPONSIBILITY......Page 145
DUTY TO PROSECUTE......Page 152
Conclusion to Part I......Page 158
PART II - RECIPROCITY......Page 161
Introduction......Page 163
TREATY LAW......Page 169
CUSTOMARY LAW......Page 172
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 175
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 178
Reservations and reciprocity......Page 182
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 183
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 188
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 194
Applicability to armed conflicts......Page 195
Applicability to individuals and groups......Page 200
Article 60......Page 205
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 209
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 214
Countermeasures......Page 224
BELLIGERENT REPRISALS......Page 225
Function of belligerent reprisals......Page 227
Reciprocity of Hague law and Geneva law......Page 235
The principle of humanity......Page 237
COUNTERMEASURES AND HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 243
Who may adopt countermeasures?......Page 244
Suspension of human rights obligations as a countermeasure......Page 253
Scenarios......Page 254
Discrimination......Page 256
Self-contained regime......Page 261
Jus cogens......Page 263
State responsibility......Page 264
Conclusion......Page 266
Individual responsibility: the rule tu quoque......Page 269
Conclusion to Part II......Page 278
PART III - APPLICATION: LAW AND FACTS......Page 281
Introduction......Page 283
Humanitarian law of armed conflict......Page 289
INTER-STATE ARMED CONFLICTS......Page 290
NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMED CONFLICTS......Page 295
Article 96…......Page 296
NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS UNDER PROTOCOL II......Page 302
Article 1 - Material field of application......Page 303
INTERNAL ARMED CONFLICTS UNDER COMMON ARTICLE 3......Page 306
State of emergency under human rights law......Page 311
7 Legal effect of characterisation......Page 319
Self-characterisation......Page 320
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 321
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 326
CONCLUSION......Page 332
Third states......Page 334
CHARACTERISATION BY POLITICAL BODIES......Page 338
NATURE AND EFFECT OF CHARACTERISATION......Page 346
Independent bodies......Page 357
HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 358
HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 365
Conclusion to Part III......Page 380
General conclusion......Page 385
Bibliography......Page 393
Index......Page 430