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Much of the recent scholarly writings and debates on amnesty have revolved around its lawfulness, when granted in respect of the most serious crimes under international law committed in the context of civil armed conflicts. The inconclusiveness of international law on this issue - with positive international law and opinio juris calling for criminal prosecution, and State's practice favouring practical political solutions - does nothing more than deepen the confusion already affecting the international legality of national amnesties. Building on emerging trends in State's practice, this book attempts to clarify the question of the legality of national amnesties for crimes against humanity by suggesting a compromised legal framework within which amnesty and accountability can both be accommodated.

Crimes against humanity. --- War crimes. --- Political crimes and offenses. --- Amnesty.

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"After an overview of the nature of illegal immigration and border patrol in the United States, this book focuses on reducing migrant casualty within the current policy and enforcement environment and through the application of a problem-oriented, evidence-based prevention strategy"--

Border security --- Noncitizens --- Immigrants --- Illegal immigration. --- Protection --- Crimes against --- Prevention. --- U.S. Border Patrol.

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This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced enslavement in Ottoman societies. He draws on court records and a variety of other unexamined primary sources to uncover important new information about the Africans and Circassians who were forcibly removed from their own societies and transplanted to Middle East cultures that were alien to them. Toledano also considers the experiences of these enslaved people within the context of the global history of slavery.The book looks at the bonds of slavery from an original perspective, moving away from the traditional master/slave domination paradigm toward the point of view of the enslaved and their responses to their plight. With keen and original insights, Toledano suggests new ways of thinking about enslavement.

Slavery --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History. --- Enslaved persons

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Threats of force are a common feature of international politics, advocated by some as an economical guarantee against the outbreak of war and condemned by others as a recipe for war. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter forbids states to use threats of force, yet the meaning of the prohibition is unclear. This book provides the first comprehensive appraisal of the no-threat principle: its origin, underlying rationale, theoretical implications, relevant jurisprudence, and how it has withstood the test of time from 1945 to the present. Based on a systematic evaluation of state and United Nations practices, the book identifies what constitutes a threat of force and when its use is justified under the United Nations Charter. In so doing, it relates the no-threat principle to important concepts of the twentieth century, such as deterrence, escalation, crisis management, and what has been aptly described as the 'diplomacy of violence'.

Ultimatums (International relations) --- Aggression (International law) --- Crimes against peace. --- Incitement to war --- Peace, Crimes against --- War, Incitement to --- War propaganda --- Crime --- Peace --- International law --- Ultimatums --- International relations --- 820 Internationale betrekkingen --- 821.4 Internationale rechtspraak --- Aggression (International law). --- Ultimatums (International relations). --- Ultimatums. --- Aggression (International law ) --- Law --- General and Others

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Nelson Gross led an outsized life-one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways.

Millionaires --- Murder victims' families --- Children of murder victims --- Fathers and daughters --- Murder --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Daughters and fathers --- Daughters --- Father and child --- Girls --- Murder victims' children --- Murder victims --- Families --- Rich people --- Crimes against --- Gross, Nelson, --- Lenney, Dinah.