..from Argentina's Dirty War and Chile's general Pinochet in the South, to bloodbaths of peasant in El Salvador and indigenous peoples in Guatemala in the North, the continent was overrun by serious violations of human rights... part II of this article summarizes the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of these violation, thanks in part to amnesty law. In at least eleven countries --Argentina, Bra…
The international debate about the use of prosecutions in transitional justice has focused on the conditionas that permit prosecuting those who commit human rights violations. Assuming that the analogy of extraordinary evil to ordinary crime is an appropriate framework within which to examine transitional justice.
Conventional views of legal change empasize the values of certainty and reliance, and therefore hostile to explicitly retroactive laws. Put differently, reparations involve wealth transfers where behavioral, or potential anticipation, effects normally associated with compesation related to legal change are absent. The loser is hardly compensated even
Orentlicher concentrates on question of morals and law, and infers some conclusion about duty selectively to prosecute past violations of human rights. Beginning with the moral dimension, the extent of the duty of a government seletively to prosecute past human rights abuses depends, of course, on the theory that underlies the justification of punishment.
Mengkaji permasalahan hak asasi manusia mulai dari teori dan perspektif, HAM dalam transisi politik (disertai dengan pengalaman negara-negara lain), keadilan transisional, tuntutan penyelesaian kasus pelanggaran HAM di era refomasi, uraian kasus-kasus pelanggran HAM di Indonesia dan pola penyelesaian kasus tersebut
Buku ini mengenai keadilan di masa transisi di Indonesia. Mencakup upaya2 yang dilakukan untuk mengungkap pelanggaran ham di masa lalu, badan2 yang terlibat dalam upaya pengungkapan itu, baik badan pemerintahan maupun lembaga swadaya masyarakat.
Kebenaran yang tidak terucapkan, merupakan buku mengenai komisi kebenaran dan rekonsiliasi. komisi yang didirikan dengan tujuan mengungkap pelanggaran yang terjadi di masa lalu.