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World Report 2012
The 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than ninety countries and territories worldwide, reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2011 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. World Report 2012 gives particular focus on the roles—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic and international figures, and includes contributions from Joseph Saunders, Danielle Haas, and Iain Levine, and an introduction by Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth assessing the year’s most pressing human rights issue.
Always on Call
Background --Abuse and expoloitation of child domestics -- The relationship between education and child labor -- Failure of the Indonesian government to protect and prevent exploitation of child domestic workers -- Response of the international community -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgements.
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.
The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
How did the Taliban gain the trust of the Afghan population through decades of conflict? How did they put themselves in a position to regulate social relations? And with what consequences for Afghan society? The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan: Waging War by Law explores how the Taliban used the law as a resource in its conflict with militarily and technologically superior Western armies. While the international coalition set up an inadequate and corrupt legal system, the Taliban set up hundreds of courts in the countryside. By insisting on due process, impartiality of judges, and the enforcement of verdicts, this system of justice established itself as one of the few sources of predictability...
CLAWS Journal
This issue of CLAWS Journal has been composed with a variety of articles, opinion pieces, commentaries and book reviews to theoretically understand why the Indian Army Chief has initiated four major studies for the transformation of the Indian Army into a “more agile fighting force” to face current and emerging threats and challenges.
Necessity and Proportionality in International Peace and Security Law
There are legal limits on the circumstances under which states may use military force to address a perceived or actual threat. The concepts of necessity and proportionality are central to these limitations imposed by the law. Necessity and Proportionality in International Peace and Security Law explores the many ways in which necessity and proportionality arise in the law on the modern battlefield, which is rapidly changing, complex, and ambiguous.
Human Rights Watch World Report 1999
Features the series titled "World Report 1999" of Human Rights Watch, which provides information on human rights developments for individual countries worldwide.
Outsourcing War
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services, training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing War, Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical prosecution of warfare. Her concern is with the ius in bello (right conduct in war) strand of just war theory. Just war theorizing is generally built on the assumption that states, and states alone, wield a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Who holds responsibility for the actions of PMCs? What ethical standards might they...
