By Jean Baptiste HARELIMANA, President of the Orientation Council, IAM, Lawyer at the Nanterre Bar Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there has been a broad consensus that torture is unacceptable and that it is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture does not seem to require flexibility, since...
Month: February 2016
Africa and International Criminal Justice
Mutoy Mubiala, Official at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva; visiting professor at the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and at the Ecole nationale d’administration (Paris). The views expressed in this column are personal and do not bind the United Nations. After contributing to the development of international criminal justice,...
Terrorism and counter-terrorism in Central Africa: what strategic vision for Chad and Cameroon ?
This note was published in the Multi-Year Observatory of Sociopolitical and Security Issues in Equatorial Africa and the Gulf Islands of Guinea, Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité (GRIP), January 22, 2015. Analysis note By Germain-Herve MBIA, Governance, Peace and Security Programme Officer at the Institut Afrique Monde (IAM) Introduction...