Criminal Responsibility and Convention

Kirsten Anderson

2008, University of Melbourne:

This article assesses the need for and likely role of the new Convention in holding individuals criminally responsible for acts of enforced disappearance. First, the nature and prevalence of enforced disappearance will be outlined. Second, existing international legal mechanisms for holding individuals criminally responsible for enforced disappearance will be analysed in order to identify current gaps in the international legal regime and to assess the need for a separate convention. Finally, the Convention itself will be examined in order to determine its likely effectiveness in filling existing gaps in protection and in extending the existing measures available for holding individuals criminally responsible for acts of enforced disappearance. This article will argue that the Convention expands and cements the international prohibition on enforced disappearance by including provisions which effectively criminalise acts of enforced disappearance in international law.

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