Sur la justice internationale...

It has been said that international criminal law is suffering an identity crisis, because it has allowed its development to become too closely intertwined with the related field of human rights law. While both fields are certainly based on the same underlying values, their goals only partly overlap and their methods in achieving those goals require rather different approaches and sensibilities. Furthermore, while international criminal law has strong universal aspirations, the development of human rights law over the last decades has been driven to a large extent by regional actors. This paper will examine the ‘synergies’ and ‘allergies’ between human rights and international criminal law in relation to a norm which exists in both systems: the prohibition of the practice of enforced or involuntary disappearance of persons.

First, this paper tracks the development of a human rights regime on enforced disappearance, particularly within the Inter-American human rights system. Then it seeks to establish if, and to what extent, this regime has influenced the criminalization of enforced disappearance at the international level. In doing so, this paper will refer to the different stages of development of human rights norms as described by Cherif Bassiouni: the enunciative stage, the declarative stage, the prescriptive stage, the enforcement stage and the criminalization stage.

It will also consider the effect the criminalization of enforced disappearance has had on the enforcement of the norm. Finally, the paper examines how its criminalization on the international level has in turn influenced the further development the human rights regime on enforced disappearance.Since 1990, the United Nations has established over thirty international commissions of inquiry to undertake fact-finding in respect of a variety of situations. Many of these commissions have inquired into violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law. In recent years, some commissions have also conducted investigations under the rubric of international criminal law. This article charts key institutional developments in international commissions of inquiry by way of concrete examples and figures. Commissions’ mandates, establishing organs, working methods, findings and recommendations are examined to identify general trends in their establishment and activities.

International commissions of inquiry have emerged as a key mechanism to detect violations of, and promote compliance with, international law. In addition, in many ways their investigations and activities have moved closer to the norms and procedures of international criminal law (ICL). Both beneficial and detrimental consequences may flow from taking ICL beyond the judicial context. The article discusses whether the trend towards criminalization in international commissions of inquiry is to be welcomed from the perspective of international governance and in light of concerns regarding the application of ICL in the absence of procedural safeguards inherent in the trial process.

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Où en sommes-nous? Et si on invitait Mark Rutte qui est après tout le premier du pays à inviter la société hollandaise à remettre le mot RESPECT au centre des débats. Le mot RESPECT s'utilise dans toutes sortes de domaines. Le mot RESPECT pourrait être le point de départ d'une discussion qui se mènerait au Peace Palace, Vredespaleis, Palais de la PaiX à La Haye. L'année 2014 s'y prête évidemment. Les citoyens européens auront à réfléchir très bientôt à l'Europe et à son identité, quel sens lui donné correctement et justement. Et puis, il y a la commémoration du centenaire de la Guerre de 14-18. Pourquoi une rencontre du souvenir ne pourrait-elle pas s'organiser à l'automne dans ce monument historique, situé tout à côté de l'Ambassade de France. Qu'en pensent Joachim et son équipe? L'âne veut bien participer à l'organisation d'une telle rencontre où les historiens seraient les premiers invités à faire part de leur eXpertise. Ce serait une rencontre conviviale comme le penseur Ivan Illich en a formulé l'idée dans les années 70, dans un petit ouvrage intitulé La convivialité (1973).

Et puisqu'un lecteur a trouvé ce lien, je le reprends également: http://leblogdelaneezelblog.blogspot.nl/2012/12/erasmus-over-plutarchus.html