Sonja C Grover: 8 books
Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children
Leading International Court Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
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 analysed from the children’s human rights perspective and the question...
by Sonja C. Grover
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age explores the broader societal implications of voting age eligibility requirements and the legislative bar against youth voting in North America and in Commonwealth countries (where ‘youth’ is defined as persons 16 and over but under...
Humanity’s Children
ICC Jurisprudence and the Failure to Address the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book addresses the phenomenon of children as the particular targets of extreme cruelty and genocide during armed conflict. Selected International Criminal Court cases are analyzed to illustrate the ICC‘s failure to address the genocidal forcible transfer of children to armed State and/or non-State...
Child Soldier Victims of Genocidal Forcible Transfer
Exonerating Child Soldiers Charged With Grave Conflict-related International Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This book provides an original legal analysis of child soldiers recruited into armed groups or forces committing mass atrocities and/or genocide as the victims of the genocidal forcible transfer of children. Legal argument is made regarding the lack of criminal culpability of such child soldier 'recruits'...
Schoolchildren as Propaganda Tools in the War on Terror
Violating the Rights of Afghani Children under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
This book explores in what ways both sides involved in the so-called war on terror are using schoolchildren as propaganda tools while putting the children's security at grave risk. The book explores how terrorists use attacks on education to attempt to destabilize the government while the government...
The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts
The ICC's Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children's Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture. ICC case law is used to highlight the International Criminal Court’s reluctance...
by Sonja C. Grover
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Introductory Remarks on the Perspective and Intent of the Author in Writing This Monograph The European Court of Human Rights comments in the judgment Korbely v. Hungary that: However, clearly drafted a legal provision may be, in any system of law, including criminal law, there is an inevitable element...
Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right
Selected Case Law on State Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual...