War Crimes
War Crimes
War Crimes Links
- Encyclopedia.com - War Crimes Short article about the definition of war crimes, and the prosecution of past war criminals.
- Diana Index: Genocide The cases, collections, or documents that pertain to genocide, from Diana collection at Yale.
- No Peace Without Justice Campaign of the Transnational Radical Party for the establishment of the ICC and support of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
- War Criminal Watch Founded by the Coalition for International Justice to track and publicize the accused criminal acts of indicted suspects for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. A dossier is available on each indicted suspect, including the indictment itself, location information, and links to any important or particularly relevant news stories and articles.
- Widows of War Living Memorial War widows from all over the world tell their stories. Inspired by Barbara Sonneborn's documentary Regret to Inform, the memorial celebrates women as an unprecedented force for peace, healing, and reconciliation.
- Humanitarianism and War Project, Brown University Reviews the experience of the international community in responding to complex emergencies around the world, examines the interaction between humanitarian action and political-military forces. Relying primarily on the data gathered from interviews with those involved in crises, it frames recommendations to improve the functioning of the world's humanitarian system.
- The Armenian Reality This site is about the massacres made by Armenians against the Turks in WWI.
- CBC News - War Crimes Canadian Broadcast Company's site for war crimes in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.
- Law and War: A Doctrine of Deterrence From UN Chronicle 35 (1998), by Anthony D'Amato.
- War Crimes in Vietnam Bertrand Russell's magisterial survey of the events leading to the war: racism, colonisation, the French, the Japanese, the First World War, Pearl Harbor, US war aims in 2nd World War, Viet Minh, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Korean War, Dien Bien Phu, 1954 Geneva Agreement, the US press, and more.
- Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide International project aimed at highlighting the men and women who resisted crimes against humanity, inspired by Yad Vashem's Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem. Events, background, and related links.
- Crying for Justice Houston Chronicle special report.
- Crimes of War Project Dedicated to raising awareness of the laws of war and war crimes among the media, policy makers, human rights and humanitarian aid workers, and the general public.
- White House Diamond Conference Proceedings of the White House Diamond Conference on Conflict Diamonds.
- Thematical bibliographies on international law of armed conflict Resource provided by the Defense, Civil Protection and Sports Administration of Switzerland.
- US: Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) This section of CSCE (Helsinki Commission) is a part of the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. Government and monitors human rights in Europe. Hearings, resolutions in the US.
- The Avalon Project : The International Military Tribunal for Germany
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting An award-winning educational and development charity founded in 1991, IWPR informs the international debate on conflict and supports the independent media in regions in transition. Long-time publisher of WarReport, IWPR produces several electronic reporting and monitoring services, all available via the Web or e-mail, in up to five languages.
- The Center for Justice and Accountability Pursues redress on behalf of victims of human rights violations and seeks to end the impunity of perpetrators.
- Nikolai Tolstoy's war crimes letters
- International Society for Military Law and the Law of War
- Research Office for the War Crimes Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University
- Turkish Crimes Against Humanity A chronology of Turkish Crimes against Humanity.
- International criminal tribunals: Handbook for government cooperation Amnesty International resource.
- Sentencing By International Tribunals: A Human Rights Approach Article by William A. Schabas, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 1997.
- REDRESS - Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors Redress is a London based, internationally focused non-profit legal/human rights organisation to help torture survivors use available international, regional and national remedies to obtain reparation and to campaign for effective remedies where they do not exist.
- International Humanitarian Law (IHL) A Red Cross resource.
- General William T. Sherman: Would the Georgia Campaigns of the First Commander of the Modern Era Comply with Current Law of War Standards? Emory International Law Review 9.2, Fall 1995.
- U.S. War Crimes Links to files relating to personal stories by US 'servicemen' in the Vietnam War.
- International Justice Human Rights Watch campaign.
- Make warriors behave Editorial by Cornelio Sommaruga, president of the ICRC, for Daily Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Guardian: War crimes tribunals What are war crimes and what can the tribunal do?
- War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Including Genocide Principal legal instruments, form the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
- "Crimes Against Humanity" reviewed A book review of Geoffrey Robertson's history of modern human rights and the progress towards enforceable international laws against war crimes.
- The Project on International Courts and Tribunals PICT is an unprecedented endeavor, jointly established in 1997 by New York University and University of London to address the legal, institutional and financial issues arising from the multiplication of international courts and tribunals as well as from the increased willingness of members of the international community to have recourse to them. It couples academic research with concrete action aimed at facilitating the work of international courts and tribunals.
- Defending a Person Charged with Genocide Chicago Journal of International Law (2000).
- International Military Law This Australian site explores and debates international law issues arising out of the increasing use of military personnel in circumstances below the threshold of armed conflict.
- International Humanitarian Law Website of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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