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International Measures Against Arbitrary Killings by Governments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

David Weissbrodt
David Weissbrodt*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Human Rights—Effective Remedies
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 77 , 1983 , pp. 378 - 387
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1983

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References

l See, e.g., Meron, Norm Making and Supervision in International Human Rights: Reflections on Institutional Order, 76 AJIL 754, 764-69 (1982).

2 See Kaufman & Weiss Fagen, Extrajudicial Executions: An Insight Into the Global Dimension of a Human Rights Violation, 3 HUMAN RIGHTS Q. 82 (No. 4, Fall 1981).

3 Report of the Human Rights Committee, 37 U.N. GAOR, Supp. (No. 40), U.N. Doc. A/37/40, at 93 (1982).

4 Id.

5 Id., at 68-69.

6 Id., at 136.

7 Id.

8 Applications 6780/74 and 6950/75, European Commission of Human Rights Decision of July 17, 1976, summarized in 4 European Human Rights Reports 482 (1982).

9 Id., at 535.

10 ILO Doc. GB 221/6/16, at 67.

11 Id.

12 Commission on Human Rights Res. 1983/36, U.N. Doe. E/1983/13 at 4-6, 167 (1983).

13 See Weissbrodt, Strategies for the Selection and Pursuit of International Human Rights Objectives, 8 Yale J. World Public Order 62, 67 (1981).

14 On March 23, 1983 Amnesty International began a campaign against extrajudicial executions. See AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, POLITICAL KILLINGS BY GOVERNMENTS (1983). For a discussion of substantive international law provisions forbidding arbitrary killings, see id. at 88-97 and for a brief summary of international remedies, see id. at 97-99.

15 U.N. Press Release SG/SM/3383, February 15, 1983.