Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights

by Renee Jeffery

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224589X
• ISBN13: 9780812245899
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"