Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights / / Renée Jeffery.
For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Rece...
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Jeffery, Renée, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights / Renée Jeffery. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (312 p.) : 7 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Amnesties -- CHAPTER 2. Transitions to Democracy -- CHAPTER 3. The Pursuit of Truth -- CHAPTER 4. Ending Violence -- CHAPTER 5. The End of Impunity? -- CHAPTER 6. The Persistence of Amnesties -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Recent developments have seen amnesties circumvented, overturned, and resisted by lawyers, states, and judiciaries committed to ending impunity for human rights violations. Yet, despite this global movement, the use of amnesties since the 1970s has not declined.Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights examines why and how amnesties persist in the face of mounting pressure to prosecute the perpetrators of human rights violations. Drawing on more than 700 amnesties instituted between 1970 and 2005, Renée Jeffery maps out significant trends in the use of amnesty and offers a historical account of how both the use and the perception of amnesty has changed. As mechanisms to facilitate transitions to democracy, to reconcile divided societies, or to end violent conflicts, amnesties have been adapted to suit the competing demands of contemporary postconflict politics and international accountability norms. Through the history of one evolving political instrument, Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights sheds light on the changing thought, practice, and goals of human rights discourse generally. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. bisacsh Law. Political Science. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 9783110665932 print 9780812245899 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209419 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812209419 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812209419.jpg |
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