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Human Rights and International Criminal Law

Author: Borhan Uddin Khan; Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004447455
Published In: March 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book examines the importance of international criminal law in promoting and defending human rights as well as its relationship with law and international politics. It highlights criminal cases at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh. The book considers human rights approaches to crimes from a theoretical and practical perspective, analyses various crimes under international law, and examines the application, implementation and enforcement of international criminal law.

This book will serve as an important reference for students, teachers, scholars and lawyers specialising in international human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law.

Foreword

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Notes on Editors

Notes on Contributors

Complexities and Challenges in Reconciling International Human Rights with International Criminal Law: An Introduction

Borhan Uddin Khan and Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan

Part 1: Human Rights Approaches to Crimes

1. International Crimes and Human Rights

Win-chiat Lee

2. Is International Criminal Justice in the Pursuit of Human Rights?

Srinivas Burra

3. Militarised Approach to Human Rights An Epistemological Challenge

Upendra D . Acharya

Part 2: The Crimes

4. The Contested Definitions of 'International Crimes'

Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman and Borhan Uddin Khan

5. Human Trafficking International Criminal Law and Human Rights for Some but Not All

Calli M . Cain and Dawn L . Rothe

6. Acts of International Terrorism Need of Incorporation into Rome Statute

Anupam Jha

7. The Crime of Child Recruitment and State Responsibility Towards the Integral Protection of the Child

Silvina S a nchez Mera

8. Comprehensive Prohibition of Torture Challenges and Loosening of a Taboo

Bahzad Joarder

9. The Right to Truth in International Criminal Trials

Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan

10. Governing Conflicts between International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law The Crime of Starvation in Non-international Armed Conflicts

Matthias Vanhullebusch

Part 3: Practice, Application, Implementation and Enforcement of International Criminal Law

11. Failed Notions and Lost Opportunities Revisiting India's Standpoint on the International Criminal Court

Sanoj Rajan

12. The Principle of Legality and Genocide in the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973

M Sanjeeb Hossain

13. Gross Violation of Human Rights and Crime against Humanity (In)adequacy of International Enforcement Mechanisms

Md Nazrul Islam

14. Prosecution of Crimes against Humanity by the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Lessons from National Experience for International Law Reform

M Rafiqul Islam

15. Ethnic Cleansing, Human Rights and the Politics of Nationalism in Post-colonial Myanmar Is International Criminal Law Strong Enough to Save the Rohingya?

Jobair Alam and Borhan Uddin Khan

16. Revisiting the Application of Rome Statute upon Non-party States Security Council Referral Discourse and the Way Forward

Md Mostafa Hosain and Borhan Uddin Khan

17. Impediments to the Smooth Functioning of the icc Who Is Responsible?

Nakib M . Nasrullah and Borhan Uddin Khan

Index