Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxxii, 384 pages; 25 cm

Subject

1. Capital punishment

Contents

1. Pt. I. Abolition of the Death Penalty at the Universal Level -- 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Recognition of the Right to Life -- 2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Towards Abolition -- 3. Genesis and Adoption of the Second Optional Protocol Abolishing the Death Penalty -- 4. Death Penalty in International Humanitarian Law -- Pt. II. Abolition of the Death Penalty at the Regional Level -- 5. Death Penalty in European Human Rights Law -- 6. Death Penalty in Inter-American Human Rights Law. App. 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- App. 2 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- App. 3 Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty -- App. 4 General Comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (excerpts) -- App. 5 Selected Resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Economic and Social Council -- App. 6 Convention on the Rights of the Child -- App. 7 Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of those Facing the Death Penalty -- App. 8 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights) -- App. 9 Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Concerning the Abolition of the Death Penalty -- App. 10 American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man -- App. 11 American Convention on Human Rights -- App. 12 Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty -- App. 13 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War -- App. 14 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War -- App. 15 Protocol Additional I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
2. App. 16 Protocol Additional II to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-international Armed Conflicts.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-359) and index.