Collective Punishment and Human Rights Law : Addressing Gaps in International Law.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- 2 Collective punishment and the law of armed conflict -- Introduction -- The legal regulation of collective punishment under the law of armed conflict -- Treaty law -- Customary international law -- International criminal law -- Definition and scope of collective punishment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 3 Case study: Collective punishment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories -- Introduction -- Setting the scene - Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories -- Punitive house demolitions -- The legal basis of punitive house demolitions -- Punitive house demolitions and the Israeli Supreme Court -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 4 Collective punishment and human rights law -- Introduction -- Reference to collective punishment relating to states of emergency -- Related rights and principles in international and regional human rights instruments -- The right to life -- The prohibition of torture -- The protection of property -- The prohibition of discrimination -- The principle of individual responsibility -- Group rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Minority rights -- Reference to the term 'collective punishment' in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 5 Case study: Collective punishment in Chechnya -- Introduction -- Setting the scene - two non-international armed conflicts and Chechnya's current status -- Two non-international armed conflicts in Chechnya. The end of non-international armed conflicts -- Forms of collective punishment used in practice -- Zachistka -- Punitive house burning -- Law on the confiscation of property (family responsibility) -- Reference to collective punishment in Chechnya in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 6 Conceptual differences and human rights held by groups -- Introduction -- The interplay between the law of armed conflict and human rights law -- Different perspectives -- The lex specialis debate -- Group rights and human rights law -- The development of group rights -- Group-differentiated rights and group rights -- Group rights as human rights -- From protection to empowerment -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 7 Can the European Convention on Human Rights encompass a prohibition of collective punishment? -- Introduction -- European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- Monitoring procedure -- Non-discrimination -- European Social Charter -- Collective complaints procedure -- Non-discrimination -- European Convention on Human Rights -- Group applications -- Non-discrimination in the minority rights context -- The ECHR in context -- Interpretation of the ECHR in the light of other human rights instruments -- New rule -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources and supplementary material -- Cases -- Online sources -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. It will be of interest to students, academics and policy-makers in the areas of International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law.