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Calls for negation of US Supreme Court decision which found the abduction of a Mexican national in Mexico for prosecution in the US to be legal. Relates to murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar.

Since 1990, 65 former heads of state or government have been legitimately prosecuted for serious human rights or financial crimes. Many of these leaders were brought to trial in reasonably free and fair judicial processes, and some served time in prison as a result. This book explores the reasons for the meteoric rise in trials of senior leaders and the motivations, public dramas, and intrigues that accompanied efforts to bring them to justice. Drawing on an analysis of the 65 cases, the book examines the emergence of regional trends in Europe and Latin America and contains case studies of high-profile trials of former government leaders: Augusto Pinochet (Chile), Alberto Fujimori (Peru), Slobodan Milosevic (former Yugoslavia), Charles Taylor (Liberia and Sierra Leone), and Saddam Hussein (Iraq) – studies written by experts who closely followed their cases and their impacts on wider societies. This is the only book that examines the rise in the number of domestic and international trials globally and tells the tales in readable prose and with fascinating details

Der Aufsatz beschreibt die internationalen Abkommen und Gesetze zum Schutz der Menschenrechte und die Praxis in Lateinamerika. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf drei grundsätzlichen Normen internationaler Menschenrechtsverträge im Hinblick auf Verbot der Folter, Verbot des Verschwindenlassens und Anspruch auf eine demokratische Regierungsform. Untersucht werden vor allem die Konsequenzen der Festschreibung von Menschenrechtsnormen in der Region. (DSE/DÜI)

Human rights practices have improved significantly throughout Latin America during the 1990s, but different degrees of legalization are not the main explanation for these changes. We examine state compliance with three primary norms of international human rights law: the prohibition against torture, the prohibition against disappearance, and the right to democratic governance. Although these norms vary in their degree of obligation, precision, and delegation, states have improved their practices in all three issue-areas. The least amount of change has occurred in the most highly legalized issue-area—the prohibition against torture. We argue that a broad regional norm shift—a "norms cascade"—has led to increased regional and international consensus with respect to an interconnected bundle of human rights norms, including the three discussed in this article. These norms are reinforced by diverse legal and political enforcement mechanisms that help to implement and ensure compliance with them.