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Title Pursuing elusive justice : mass crimes in India and relevance of international standards / edited by Vahida Nainar, Saumya Uma ; foreword by Upendra Baxi
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Description xviii, 475 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction / Vahida Nainar -- Impunity writ large : a study of crimes committed during anti-Veerappan operations / Saumya Uma -- Persecution of the Dalits : the need to raise standards of accountability / Maya Nair -- Persecution of sexual minorities : relevance of the ICC / Siddharth Narrain -- Understanding enforced disappearances / V. Seshaiah Shasthri -- Severe punishments and the ICC : significance for the Indian penal regime / Bikram Jeet Batra -- Law reform on sexual and gender-based crimes in mass violence / Saumya Uma -- Integrating victims' rights in the Indian legal framework / Saumya Uma -- Significance of global justice in the war against terror / Arvind Narrain -- ICC and the Indian military justice system : complementarities / U.C. Jha -- Torture by private actors : introducing a legal discourse in India / Vahida Nair -- Genocide : international standards and their application to India / Priya Pillai -- Crimes against humanity in India : towards a legal understanding / Vahida Nair -- International terrorism : a crime against humanity? / Shruti Bedi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- India.
Impunity -- India.
Criminal law -- India.
Crime -- India.
Victims of crimes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India.
Human rights -- India.
Dalits -- India -- Social conditions.
International criminal law.
SUBJECT India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
Author Nainar, Vahida, editor of compilation
Uma, Saumya, editor of compilation
Baxi, Upendra, writer of preface
LC no. 2013319913
ISBN 9780198079996
0198079990
Other Titles Mass crimes in India and relevance of international standards