In the twenty-first century, fighting impunity has become both the rallying cry and a metric of progress for human rights. The new emphasis on criminal prosecut

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.

The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community. Updated in 2005, the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promoti

The book considers human rights approaches to crimes from a theoretical and practical perspective, analyses various crimes under international law, and examines