The Prevention of Gross Human Rights Violations Under International Human Rights Law - Hardcover

Van Der Have, Nienke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9462652309 ISBN 13: 9789462652309

Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2018

Synopsis

This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations 

to prevent gross human rights violations. There has been a great deal of attention for 

concepts aiming to prevent gross human rights violations, such as conflict prevention 

and the responsibility to protect. Yet despite this shift in attention towards prevention, 

it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human rights 

violations under international human rights law.

The focus in this book is on three specific types of injury prohibited under international 

human rights law: torture, arbitrary death and genocide. Further distinctions are made 

between four temporal phases (long-term prevention, short-term prevention, preventing 

continuation, preventing recurrence) and territorial and extraterritorial obligations.

The structure of the book allows academics and practitioners to learn about obligations 

to prevent gross human rights violations in a general sense, as well as find targeted 

information on the content and scope of obligations in specific settings.

Nienke van der Have recently completed her Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Center for 

International Law, which forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty 

of Law, and currently works as Senior legal specialist at the department of 

Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom 

Relations of The Netherlands.

About this title

About the Author

Nienke van der Have recently completed her Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, which forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law, and currently works as Senior policy adviser/legal specialist in the department of Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of The Netherlands.

From the Back Cover

This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations

to prevent gross human rights violations. There has been a great deal of attention for

concepts aiming to prevent gross human rights violations, such as conflict prevention

and the responsibility to protect. Yet despite this shift in attention towards prevention,

it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human rights

violations under international human rights law.

The focus in this book is on three specific types of injury prohibited under international

human rights law: torture, arbitrary death and genocide. Further distinctions are made

between four temporal phases (long-term prevention, short-term prevention, preventing

continuation, preventing recurrence) and territorial and extraterritorial obligations.

The structure of the book allows academics and practitioners to learn about obligations

to prevent gross human rights violations in a general sense, as well as find targeted

information on the content and scope of obligations in specific settings.

Nienke van der Have recently completed her Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Center for

International Law, which forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty

of Law, and currently works as Senior legal specialist at the department of

Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom

Relations of The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462652309
• ISBN 13: 9789462652309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260