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The Right to The Truth in International Law: Victims’ Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal Law

The Right to The Truth in International Law: Victims’ Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal Law

Author: Melanie Klinkner; Howard Davis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367726867

Published In: March 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781138961449

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The United Nations has established a right to the truth to be enjoyed by victims of gross violations of human rights. The origins of the right stem from the need to provide victims and relatives of the missing with a right to know what happened. It encompasses the verification and full public disclosure of the facts associated with the crimes from which they or their relatives suffered. The importance of the right to the truth is based on the belief that, by disclosing the truth, the suffering of victims is alleviated.

This book analyses the emergence of this right, as a response to an understanding of the needs of victims, through to its development and application in two particular legal contexts: international human rights law and international criminal justice. The book examines in detail the application of the right through the case law and jurisprudence of international tribunals in the human rights and also the criminal justice context, as well as looking at its place in transitional justice. The theoretical foundations of the right to the truth are considered as well as the various objectives appropriate for different truth-seeking mechanisms. The book then goes on to discuss to what extent it can be understood, constructed and applied as a hard, legally enforceable right with correlating duties on various people and institutions including state agencies, prosecutors and judges.

Chapter 1: The Need for Truth

Chapter 2: The emergence of a right to the truth

Chapter 3: Content of the right to the truth

Chapter 4: The public aspect of the Right to the Truth

Chapter 5: The Right to the Truth in different Fora

Chapter 6: The Inter-American Court & UNHCR

Chapter 7: The Right to the Truth at the European Court of Human Rights

Chapter 8: Truth Commissions and the right to the truth

Chapter 9: International Criminal Trials

Chapter 10: The Right to the Truth and the International Criminal Court

Chapter 11: Conclusion