de la Vega & Mirza: A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures

Connie de la Vega (Univ. of San Francisco - Law) & Alen Mirza have published A Practical Guide to Using International Human Rights and Criminal Law Procedures (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019). Here's the abstract:

Since 1948, when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, mechanisms for addressing human rights violations have multiplied to include UN Charter based bodies, treaty-based organizations including the international criminal court, and regional institutions. Each mechanism has its own admissibility requirements: accreditation, timeliness of claims and exhaustion of remedies. For practitioners, the maze of rules and institutions can be difficult to navigate. The authors are able to offer guidance on how to work within international criminal and human rights mechanisms in a way that is useful to non-government actors and applies to English-speaking practitioners almost anywhere on the globe.