Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children: Leading International Court Cases

Addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. This casebook analyzes the cases from a children's human rights perspective.

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analyzed from a children's human rights perspective and the question is examined as to what extent the international courts are according these children justice.

Part I: An Introduction to the Organizational Structure, Enabling Statutes, Case Processing Procedure, and Jurisdiction of the International Courts: The Inter-American Human Rights System.- European International Human Rights Court System.- The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts of Rwanda and the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia.- The Special Court of Sierra Leone.- The International Criminal Court.- Part II: The International Human Rights Courts: Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Case
1: Gomez-Paquiyauri Brothers v. Peru. Case
2: Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic.- European Court of Human Rights. Case
3: Isayeva, Yusupova and Bazayeva v. Russia. Case
4: Aydin v. Turkey.- Part III: The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts: Rwanda, Case
5: The Prosecutor v. Sylvestre Gacumbitsi.- Territory of the Former Yugoslavia, Case
6: The Prosecutor v. Miroslav Bralo.- Part IV: The International Hybrid Criminal Courts: Special Court of Sierra Leone: Case
7: Prosecutor v. Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa.- Case
8: Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara and Kanu.- Part V: The International Criminal Court (The Hague), Case
9: The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.

Sonja C. Grover, Ph.D., is a Professor with Lakehead University, Canada. She has authored 7 books and over 80 refereed articles; over 60 on the topic of human rights published in leading international human rights and law journals, has presented numerous international conference papers and published book chapters in this field. She has also written several books on children's human rights including, "Children's Human Rights: Challenging Global Barriers to the Child Liberation Movement" (2007); "The Child's Right to Legal Standing" (2008) and a major reference book, "Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children: Leading International Court Cases" (2009).