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This monograph represents the most recent analysis of the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights' in international practice. It proposes a systematic and structured engagement with the international practice around serious violations of human rights.
List of contents
- Brief Summary
- Introduction: The Origins of the Regime
- 1: The you evolution of a legal regime
- 2: Connection of serious violations of human rights to other notions
- 3: Shaping the special regime
- 4: The relationship between the special and the (general) human rights law regimes
- 5: 'Serious' versus 'gross' and other similar expressions
- 6: Structuring the special regime
- Chapter 1: The Substantive Component Identifying a Serious Violation of Human Rights
- 1: The elements forming a serious violation of human rights
- 2: The external elements
- 3: The involvement of the state
- 4: The contextual aspect
- 5: The 'iceberg' of serious violations of human rights
- Chapter 2: The Monitoring Component
- 1: Country-specific inter-governmental procedures
- 2: Extra-conventional international inquiry and fact-finding mechanisms
- 3: The treaty-based inquiry mechanisms
- 4: The national monitoring mechanisms
- 5: A multilateral network of monitoring responses
- Chapter 3: The Enforcement Component
- 1: 'Threat to the peace' and serious violations of human rights
- 2: Other responses to serious violations of human rights
- 3: Responsibility to protect
- 4: Enforcement in pursuit of the common purpose
- Chapter 4: The Remedial Component
- 1: Instruments specific to serious violations of human rights
- 2: Adjudicating serious violations of human rights
- 3: A victim-oriented but not individualistic approach to remedies
- Conclusion
About the author
Dr Ilia Siatitsa is currently Programme Director and Senior Legal Officer at Privacy International (PI) and her work focuses on research and litigation on the impact of new technologies on human rights. She is a qualified lawyer in Greece and has a PhD in International Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva. Before joining PI, Ilia was a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights leading the research on human rights in the digital age. She was also a member of the research team of the Big Data, Human Rights and Technology Project housed at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. She also holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Law School, University of Geneva, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Athens, and a Law Degree from the Democritus University, Greece.
Summary
This monograph represents the most recent analysis of the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights' in international practice. It proposes a systematic and structured engagement with the international practice around serious violations of human rights.
