A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures
A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures

Author: Connie de la Vega

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 178811972X

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This book is a practical, experience-based guide for advocates seeking remedies for human rights violations through the use of international institutions. Since 1948, when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, mechanisms for addressing human rights violations have multiplied to include UN Charter based bodies, treaty-based organizations including the international criminal court, and regional institutions. Each mechanism has its own admissibility requirements: accreditation, timeliness of claims, and exhaustion of remedies. For practitioners, the maze of rules and institutions can be difficult to navigate. This book offers step-by-step approaches for maximizing the institutions’ intended effect–promotion of human rights at all levels.

Communicating Conflict
Communicating Conflict

Author: Elizabeth Thomson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-03-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1441198008

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Communicating Conflict brings together a collection of multilingual case studies drawn from the international media. The contributors use methodologies drawn from Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics to explore how these texts overtly or covertly advance particular value positions and world views. They pay particular attention to how the reader is positioned with respect to the events being described, and, using appraisal theory, the various voices which are referenced by the text.