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International Criminal Law: Victims Participation

A guide to online and print resources, including substantive and procedural law, secondary sources, journals and news.

Conventions, Laws and Regulations

Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949
Available from ICRC
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949
Available from ICRC
European Convention on the Compensation of Victims of Violent Crimes
Strasbourg, 24.XI.1983
Good Practices for the Protection of Witnesses in Criminal Proceding Involving Organized Crime
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Human Rights Bodies--Complaint Procedures
The ability of individuals to complain about the violation of their rights in an international arena brings real meaning to the rights contained in the human rights treaties. There are three main procedures for bringing complaints of violations of the provisions of the human rights treaties before the human rights treaty bodies: individual communications; state-to-state complaints; and inquiries.
Justice in Matters involving Child Victims and Witnesses of Crime: Model Law and Related Commentary
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977
Available from ICRC
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977
Available from ICRC

Print Resources at Pace

Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence by Sara Sharratt
Call Number: KZ7162 .S53 2011
ISBN: 9781409419990
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Globalisation and Victimhood by Jan Dijk (Editor); Rianne Letschert (Editor)
Call Number: K5572 .N49 2011
ISBN: 9789048190195
Publication Date: 2010-12-23
The International Criminal Court: Recommendations on Policy and Practice by Thordis Ingadottir (Editor)
Call Number: KZ6310 .I5795 2003
ISBN: 1571052925
Publication Date: 2004-03-01
International criminal tribunals and victims of crime : a study of the status of victims before international criminal tribunals and of factors affecting this status by Mikaela Heikkilä
Call Number: K5572 .H45 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Procedural Justice?: victim participation in international criminal proceedings by Brianne McGonigle Leyh
Call Number: KZ7495 .L49 2011
ISBN: 9781780680200
Publication Date: 2011-12-30
Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court by Conor McCarthy
Call Number: KZ7464 .M38 2012
ISBN: 9781107013872
Publication Date: 2012-04-12
Also available as e-Book at Pace.
Reparations for Child Victims of Armed Conflict by Francesca Capone
Call Number: KZ6785 .C37 2017
ISBN: 178068438X
Publication Date: 2017-01-26
Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity by M. G. Goetz (Editor); C. F. Ferstman (Editor); Alan Stephens (Editor)
Call Number: K5302.A6 R47 2009
ISBN: 9789004174498
Publication Date: 2009-04-24
The Reparation System of the International Criminal Court by Eva Dwertmann
Call Number: KZ6324 .D88 2010
ISBN: 9789004178106
Publication Date: 2010-03-02
The Standing of Victims in the Procedural Design of the International Criminal Court by Tatiana Bachvarova
Call Number: KZ7495 .B33 2017
ISBN: 9004338608
Publication Date: 2017-05-18
Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court by T. Markus Funk
Call Number: KZ6311 .F858 2010
ISBN: 9780199941469
Publication Date: 2015-04-13