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International Criminal Law Sources in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights – Some Comparative Considerations

Dec 23rd, 2008 | By NMRZ

by Juan Pablo Pérez-León Acevedo

The Latin-American scenario was characterized by the presence of several protracted and intense internal armed conflicts as well as widespread and systematic human rights violations committed by dictatorships in peace time. […]

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The Struggle against Torture in Italy – The Failure of the Italian Law

by Gaia Hefti Torture is considered to be the most common human rights violation in today's modern world, not only in underdeveloped and/or authoritarian countries, but also in long-established democracies with strict laws about the topic (Goodhart 2016). In 1948, with the prohibition of torture included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),…

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