Essays about: "Criminal Prosecution"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 40 essays containing the words Criminal Prosecution.
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16. Politics of Transitional Justice : Examining Arrests of Former Wartime Leaders as An Electoral Manipulation Strategy in Post-Conflict Countries
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : The systematic variation in arrests of former wartime leaders (including political/military leaders and those with commanding positions from both sides of conflict among other high-level wartime actors) in post-conflict countries have rarely been recognized and studied. Building on past literature that interlinks transitional justice with domestic politics, this study argues that the variation in arrests of former wartime leaders can be explained by elections and electoral manipulation theory. READ MORE
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17. Prospects of Holding Former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez Responsible for False Positives based on the Doctrine of Superior Responsibility
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : This thesis studies the prospects of holding former President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez responsible for false positives, the extrajudicial killings that occurred in Colombia between 2002 and 2008, based on the doctrine of superior responsibility. The legal analysis builds on Article 28(b) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and customary international law. READ MORE
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18. The Protection against Refoulment in the framework of Exclusion Clause: A complex problem within Asylum institution Case Study of Sweden Asylum System
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The study analysis the urgent problem in the protection against refoulment to the individual s excluded from protection as a refugee in the context of the exclusion clause. In principle, the non-refoulment on the possibility of international law and EU legislation allow alien to claim asylum and prohibit the return for offences committed before the application for refuge to the state. READ MORE
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19. Immunity from arrest? - An analysis of obligations for State Parties to the Rome Statute to arrest and surrender a Head of State of a state not party to the Statute in a situation referred to the ICC pursuant to a UN Security Council resolution
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The International Criminal Court (ICC) was created as a compliment to domestic courts in the global fight against impunity. However, customary international law has afforded Heads of State with immunity from prosecution, even for serious international crimes. READ MORE
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20. Girls Used in Armed Conflict – An analysis of the protection of girls, associated with armed groups or forces, through prohibitions on using children in armed conflict
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Since the 1970s, the practice of conscripting, enlisting or recruiting children into armed groups or forces has become increasingly common, and many children are used for various tasks in conflicts around the globe. Children are easily persuaded or forced into such armed groups or forces, and they suffer great harm from exposure to violence. READ MORE
