Individuals (international criminal law)

Stefanie Jansen-Wilhelm

Chapter 9 in Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations, 2025, pp 145-161 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter deals with the accountability of individuals for human rights violations. Since human rights obligations rest upon states, individuals are legally speaking only capable of human rights violations when such breaches can be attributed to the state. However, when violations are of a certain scale and concern particular breaches, the violations could be prosecuted as crimes. In this chapter, it will be considered what requirements must be met before gross human rights violations can be prosecuted as international crimes before the International Criminal Court, through which modes of liability, and which defenses can be invoked.

Keywords: Criminal law; Genocide; Crimes against humanity; War crimes; Modes of liability; Criminal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306923
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