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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Table of cases -- Preface -- 1 The right not to be displaced by armed conflict under international law -- 2 The right to return home and the right to property restitution under international law -- 3 Reparation of the rights to property and home of displaced persons arising from armed conflict under the European Convention on Human Rights: falling short of the exigencies of international law and the humanistic purpose of human rights? -- 4 The right to respect of home and enjoyment of property for Cypriot IDPs: the developing jurisprudence of the ECtHR -- 5 Inter-American and Colombian developments and contributions on the protection of persecuted internally displaced persons -- 6 Forced displacement, dispossession and property: Cambodia -- 7 Forcible displacement as a weapon of war in the Syrian conflict: lessons and developments -- 8 Collective dislocation: crimes of displacement, property deprivation and discrimination under international criminal law -- Appendix -- Index

The Republic of Cyprus became independent on 16 August 1960 with the conclusion of three agreements between Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom: the Treaty of Establishment,1the Treaty of Guarantee,2and the Treaty of Alliance.3Due to limited space, this article will not consider the troubled history of the new Republic the structures of which were literally shattered by an unworkable and dysfunctional Constitution a few years only after its establishment and which eventually led to the Turkish invasion and continuing occupation of one third of its territory.4Rather, this article intends to focus on recent legal developments provoked by Turkey's refusal to recognize the Republic of Cyprus, a Member State of the United Nations and as from May 2004 a Member of the European Union, in the context of Turkey's own aspirations to become an EU Member State.

On 11 September 2001, four aircraft on internal flights within the United States were seized by passengers who crashed two of them into the World Trade Centre in New York and another into the Pentagon, Washington DC, the other falling into open land in Pennsylvania. The men who seized the planes were all non-US nationals. The total loss of life was over 3,000, including a number of UK citizens. The economic consequences were hardly calculable. Responsibility for the attacks was attributed to the Al Qaeda movement, a group regarded by the United States as being responsible for previous attacks against US targets, including the bombing of American embassies in East Africa in 1998 and on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000. Although Al Qaeda was thought to have members in many states, the principal base for its operations was in Afghanistan.1

2: The international human rights regime: still part of the problem?Idealism and the problems of idolatry; Pragmatism and the perils of humanist violence; So, what can be done?; PART II: Domestic human rights perspectives?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????; 3: What is the point of human rights law?; Introduction; Laws against torture; A cry for help; 'Paying lip-service' to principle; A cry of pain; A licence to torture; Rendition and torture; Conclusion.