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It Ought to Be a Crime: Criminalizing Human Rights Violations
Author(s) -
Blau Judith,
Moncada Alberto
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2007.00025.x
Subject(s) - dignity , human rights , sociology , law , international humanitarian law , political science , criminology
In this article we propose that distinctions between human rights violations and violations of humanitarian law are substantively groundless. Human beings are entitled to live their lives with dignity and security, entitled to their freedoms. There remain, however, practical problems: human rights law and humanitarian law are distinct traditions with their own separate venues for judicatory review. They are also different in the popular imagination. We suggest ways that these distinctions can be dissolved.