Judge Laity Kama, the first president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, died 5 years ago. He was a Senegalese Judge, and a Human Rights expert within the United Nations. This collection of essays on international criminal law and human rights is published to honour him. They are signed by his colleagues of the Arbitrary Detention Working Group or new members, Judges from the ad hoc Tribunals and the International Criminal Court, Lawyers and Jurists from different places. Deep analysis of various human rights issues and the jurisprudence of the international criminal court and...

Depuis pr]s de deux si]cles, la question de lesclavage et de la traite ngri]re est au coeur des relations internationales. Du Congr]s de Vienne de 1815 qui dnonce un commerce rpugnant aux principes dhumanit et de morale universelle jusqu la Cour internationale de Justice qui voque en 1970 les principes et [l]es r]gles concernant les droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine, y compris la protection contre la pratique de lesclavage comme source dobligations erga omnes, le droit international contemporain est caractris par la construction progressive dun rgime international relevant de la...