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7 - UN Peacekeeping and the Protection of Bodily Integrity Rights: When Protectors Become Perpetrators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Monika Heupel
Affiliation:
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany
Michael Zürn
Affiliation:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
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Protecting the Individual from International Authority
Human Rights in International Organizations
, pp. 157 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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