Prosecuting international crimes and human rights abuses committed against children (hardback): leading international court cases

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analyzed from a children's human rights perspective and the question is examined as to what extent the international courts are according these children justice.

Part I: An Introduction to the Organizational Structur. Enabling Statute. Case Processing Procedur. and Jurisdiction of the International Courts: The Inter-American Human Rights System.- European International Human Rights Court System.- The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts of Rwanda and the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia.- The Special Court of Sierra Leone.- The International Criminal Court.- Part II: The International Human Rights Courts: Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Case 1: Goméz-Paquiyauri Brothers v. Peru. Case 2: Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic.- European Court of Human Rights. Case 3: Isayev. Yusupova and Bazayeva v. Russia. Case 4: Aydin v. Turkey.- Part III: The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts: Rwand. Case 5: The Prosecutor v. Sylvestre Gacumbitsi.- Territory of the Former Yugoslavi. Case 6: The Prosecutor v. Miroslav Bralo.- Part IV: The International Hybrid Criminal Courts: Special Court of Sierra Leone: Case 7: Prosecutor v. Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa.- Case 8: Prosecutor v. Brim. Kamara and Kanu.- Part V: The International Criminal Court (The Hague. Case 9: The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.