Extraordinary Rendition and Human Rights Examining State Accountability and Complicity /

• Main Author: Egan, Suzanne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-Politics and government.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Law-Europe.; International relations.; European Politics.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Human Rights.; European Law.; International Relations.

This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition. Although infamously deployed as a counter-terrorism technique, substantial evidence confirms that European states colluded in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1 The Concepts
• 2. Chapter 2 The Dynamics of Extraordinary Rendition: Past, Present and Future
• 3. Chapter 3 Investigative Obligations: Is there a Right to the Truth?
• 4. Chapter 4 Mapping State Responsibility for Complicity in Extraordinary Rendition
• 5. Chapter 5 The Shelter of Diplomatic Assurances
• 6. Chapter 6 Conclusion.