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The period immediately following Kenya's 2007 presidential election left a shocking trail of atrocities, with over 1,000 people dead and countless thousands left victimised and displaced. In response, the International Criminal Court began a series of investigations and trials, promising no impunity for even the highest ranking perpetrators. When the country's president and vice-president were implicated in the crimes, the case took on worldwide significance. The International Criminal Court and the End of Impunity in Kenya is a five-year study addressing critical human rights issues with a global reach and is the first detailed account of the ICC's intervention in Kenya. It probes the relat...
The book draws on International Relations Theory and International Law to study the humanisation of global politics especially within security discourses.
Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.
Sixth grader Geran Harris decides one day at school recess to trade in his football for a jump rope. The boys laugh while the girls wonder. For Geran it's simple. He wants to be the first boy to win the school's annual jumping rope tournament. He learns quickly, however, that jumping rope is not as easy as it seems. Highwaters, leap frogs, and splits are only a few of the obstacles he must face in racing the rope and winning the crown.
Critically explores the International Criminal Court's evolution and the domestic effects of its interventions in three African countries.
This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and examines international criminal law (ICL) vs the black body through an immersive format of art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book interrogates the operationalisation of the Rome Statute to detail a Eurocentric hegemony at the core of ICL. It explores how colonialism and slavery have come to shape ICL, exposing the perpetuation of the colonial, and warns that it has ominous contemporary and future implications for Africa. As currently envisaged and acted out at the ICC, this law is founded on deceptive and co...
How and why did Kenya's transitional justice efforts fail, and what does this say about the persistence of the past?
COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic the world has experienced in a century. This book analyses major legal and regulatory responses internationally to COVID-19, and the impact the pandemic has had on human rights and freedoms, governance, the obligations of states and individuals, as well the role of the World Health Organization and other international bodies during this time. The authors examine notable legal challenges to public health measures enforced during the pandemic, such as lockdown orders, curfews, and vaccine mandates. Importantly, the book contextualizes the legal analysis by examining the broader social and economic dimensions of risks posed by the pandemic. The book consider...
This book considers the legal and political dimensions of the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa, looking at the role of the European Union, African Union, and African diplomacy on the issue of sovereignty and impunity for international crimes --Source other than Library of Congress.