The concept of human security has emerged in international relations and policy as an idea which not only seeks to relocate the focus of international society on the individual, but also challenges the current priorities of the international community. In particular it places emphasis on promoting and facilitating a nexus between security, development and human rights. It is potentially a paradigm in the making, gaining considerable momentum within the UN, international relations scholarship and regional bodies. And yet by-and-large it continues to be unexplored by the international legal...
The concept of human security has emerged in international relations and policy as an idea which not only seeks to relocate the focus of internatio...
This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human rights field to ensure respect for the rights of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, queer legal theory provides a means to examine the structural assumptions and conceptual architecture that underpin the normative framework and operation of international law, highlighting...
This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer leg...
The UN Security Council is entrusted under the UN Charter with primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the international peace; it is the only body with the power to authorise military intervention legally and impose international sanctions where it decides. However, its decision-making process has hitherto been obscure and allegations of political bias have been made against the Security Council in its responses to potential international threats. Despite the rule of law featuring on the Security Council's agenda for over a decade and a UN General Assembly...
The UN Security Council is entrusted under the UN Charter with primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the international peac...
This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women. The book explores the portrayal of the various gendered identities that surface in armed conflict and it asks whether the law is capable of reflecting these in subsequent judgements.
Focusing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as well as subsequent developments in the International Criminal Court, the book shows how the...
This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based viol...
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015) issued under title: Implementing the complementarity principle of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Nigeria.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015) issued under title: Implementing the complementarity princip...
