Other Human Rights Issues
‘Terrorist’: Flag Of Convenience?
By Professor Bill Bowring. First published in Socialist Lawyer (April 2007), Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, www.haldane.org.
Shortly after ‘9/11’ the UN Security Council adopted a Resolution to combat the financing of terrorism. The EU has drawn up a list of individuals and organisations suspected of terrorist behaviour and has frozen their assets. This article examines how some fundamental human rights are threatened by the existence of this list.
Terrorist: Flag of Convenience?
The Human Rights Implications of International Listing Mechanisms for 'Terrorist' Organisations By Professor Bill Bowring. First published in the Final Report on the Expert Workshop on Human Rights and International Co-operation in Counter-Terrorism on the website of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org
In his background paper (pp 75 -113) of the Report, Professor Bill Bowring seeks to analyse the various measures at the UN and EU level for asset-freezing in respect of organisations and individuals, in response to specific terrorist attacks, and "terrorism" in general.
New Regulations of the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court: developing the quality of redress for victims of international human rights violations
Sergey A. Golubok, LLM student, University of Essex, UK
The International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund mechanism enables it to provide financial reparations to victims in instances where the perpetrators of such crimes are unable or unwilling to do so and the ICC is unable to force seizure of funds and/or assets required to satisfy it’s judgments. This article examines the procedures for activation of the Trust Fund but notes that few CIS countries will benefit from it.
Indefinite detention
Madeleine Byrne
A quick look at indefinite detention and immigrants.
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