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This scholarly legal work focuses on the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals with reference to the principle of fair labelling. This inquiry deals with gender-based crimes as a case study, within the legal principle and theoretical framework of fair labelling.
List of contents
Preface by Justice Teresa Doherty; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Table of International Cases; Table of National Cases; Table of International Documents and Treaties; Table of Governmental Legislations and documents; Table of UN Security Council's Resolutions; Abbreviations; Introduction: Design and Structure; Part One: Fair Labelling and the Codification of Gender-Based; Crimes in the Statutory Laws of the; International Criminal Tribunals; Introduction; Chapter One: Fair Labelling as a Common Legal Principle in Criminal Law; Chapter Two: Fair Labelling and other Criminal Law Principles and Concepts; Chapter Three: Fair Labelling and the Codification of Gender-Based Crimes in the Statutory Laws of the International Criminal Tribunals; Part Two: Fair Labelling and the Dilemma of Prosecuting Gender-Based; Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunals; Introduction; Chapter Four: Prosecution of Gender-Based Crimes and Feminist Legal Literature; Chapter Five: The Dilemma of Prosecuting Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunals; Conclusion: Looking to the Future; Appendices: Crimes under the Statutory Laws of the; International Criminal Tribunals; I. Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; II. Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; III. Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; IV. Regulation No. 2000/15 on the Establishment of Panels in East Timor with Exclusive Jurisdiction over Serious Criminal Offences; V. Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone; VI. Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea; Selected Bibliography; Index
About the author
Hilmi M. Zawati is President of the International Legal Advocacy Forum (ILAF), an international criminal law jurist, and human rights advocate. He has been a committed human rights activist over the last three decades, and has actively advocated human rights of wartime rape victims throughout the world ever since the first reports of war crimes during the Yugoslav dissolution war of 1992-1995. A prominent speaker and author on a number of hotly debated legal issues, Dr. Zawati has addressed major academic and professional groups in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the United States, and Canada. His present primary research and teaching areas are: public international law; international criminal law; international humanitarian and human rights law; international gender justice system; international environmental law of armed conflict; social diversity and the law; judicial mechanisms under universal jurisdiction; and Islamic law of nations (siyar).
Summary
This scholarly legal work focuses on the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals with reference to the principle of fair labelling. This inquiry deals with gender-based crimes as a case study, within the legal principle and theoretical framework of fair labelling.
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...readers will appreciate Zawatis thorough analysis of case law related to gender-based crimes charged at the international criminal tribunals and ICC and his proposals towards addressing some of the challenges.
