International Law of Victims

by Romani, Carlos Fernandez De Casadevante

• ISBN13: 9783642281396
• ISBN10: 3642281397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-12
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

After having ignored the victim, only recently both domestic and International Law have begun to pay attention to victims. As a consequence of it, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspective of the victim, as well as by the enumeration of a list of rights to which victims are entitle to; rights upon which the international statute of victims is built. On its reverse these catalogue of rights are obligations on the charge of States. Most of these rights are already existent in international law of human rights. Consequently, they are not new but consolidated rights. Others are strictly linked to victims. These norms concern the following categories of victims: victims of crime, victims of abuse of power, victims of gross violations of international human rights law, victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law, victims of enforced disappearance, victims of violations of international criminal law and victims of terrorism.