The struggle against enforced disappearance and the 2007 United Nations convention / / by Tullio Scovazzi and Gabriella Citroni.

• Author: Scovazzi, Tullio.
• TeilnehmendeR: Citroni, Gabriella.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.; c2007.
• سنة النشر: 2007
• اللغة: English
• سلاسل: Nijhoff eBook titles 2007
• وصف مادي: 1 online resource (452 p.)
• ملاحظات: Description based upon print version of record.

Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge is widespread today and on the increase in other continents. For more than twenty-five years, relatives of disappeared people worldwide have insisted on the pressing need for an international legally binding instrument against enforced disappearances. 2006 is the year of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, which represents the result of several legislative and jurisprudential developments that are duly analyzed in this book. The Convention has been opened for signature in February 2007.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter I. The Dimension and Purposes of Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter II. Overview of International Case Law on Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter III. The Existing International Legal Framework on Enforced Disappearance -- Chapter IV. The 2007 Convention and Its Main Legal Issues -- Conclusions -- Post Scriptum -- Text of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance -- Bibliography -- Index.