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Preventing Irreparable Harm

Provisional Measures in International Human Rights Adjudication

Book | 1st edition 2010 | United Kingdom | Eva Rieter
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International human rights adjudicators, while facing urgent cases, have used provisional measures in order to prevent irreparable harm, e.g. to order States to halt an expulsion, the execution of a death sentence, destruction of the natural habitat, or to ensure access to health care in detention or protection against death threats.

In the practice of the various adjudicators the traditional concept of provisional measures has undergone a process of humanisation. This book addresses the question how such provisional measures can be made as persuasive as possible. Apart from the Inter-American Court, none of the human rights adjudicators motivate or publish their provisional measures. Yet this book analyses their (best) practices and obstacles, determines the underlying rationale for their use of provisional measures and establishes the core of the concept of provisional measures that all adjudicators have in common. It argues that clarity on what belongs to the core of the concept, and on what does not belong to the concept at all, enhances the persuasive force of provisional measures.

The practices of the international adjudicators made accessible in this book may prove useful in the ongoing cross-fertilization occurring among these adjudicators. Moreover, the analysis provided allows individual victims, their counsel, NGOs as well as international institutions to address more effectively urgent human rights cases.


About this book:

‘Rieter’s book is a very worthwhile and sorely needed reference. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive and organized explanation of provisional measures and the bodies that may issue them. Its most important contribution is found in the middle chapters addressing the various situations and kinds of harm previously addressed by human rights tribunals when granting provisional measures, although the practical suggestions to human rights tribunals are also surely welcome. Researchers, human rights defenders and the tribunals themselves will find much in Rieter’s volume to strengthen and enrich their work. Ideally, the information it contains will contribute not only to better understanding of provisional measures, but also to coherence in, and progressive development of, this area of the law.’
X on internationalhumanrightslaw.org (2010))

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Type of product Book
Format Paperback
EAN / ISSN 9789050959315
Series name Human Rights Research Series
Weight 1800 g
Status Available
Number of pages xl + 1200 p.
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Feb 12, 2010
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Table of Contents
  • PART I: SETTING
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF PROVISIONAL MEASURES BY THE ICJ AND ITLOS
  • CHAPTER II. THE USE OF PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VARIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEMS
  • CONCLUSION
  • PART II: PURPOSE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER III. HALTING EXECUTIONS
  • CHAPTER IV. HALTING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
  • CHAPTER V. HALTING EXPULSION OR EXTRADITION IN NON-REFOULEMENT CASES
  • CHAPTER VI. LOCATING AND PROTECTING DISAPPEARED PERSONS
  • CHAPTER VII. INTERVENING IN DETENTION SITUATIONS INVOLVING RISKS TO HEALTH AND DIGNITY
  • CHAPTER VIII. ENSURING PROCEDURAL RIGHTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHT TO LIFE AND PERSONAL INTEGRITY
  • CHAPTER IX. PROTECTING AGAINST DEATH THREATS AND HARASSMENT
  • CHAPTER X. PROTECTING (INDIGENOUS) CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS
  • CHAPTER XI. HALTING MASS OR ARBITRARY EXPULSION AND FORCED EVICTION
  • CHAPTER XII. PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN OTHER SITUATIONS
  • CHAPTER XIII. PROTECTION
  • CONCLUSION
  • PART III: IMPACT OF THE IRREPARABLE NATURE OF THE HARM
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER XIV. JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY
  • CHAPTER XV. IMMEDIACY AND RISK
  • CHAPTER XVI. THE LEGAL STATUS OF PROVISIONAL MEASURES IN HUMAN RIGHTS ADJUDICATION
  • CONCLUSION
  • PART IV: RESPONSES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER XVII. THE OFFICIAL RESPONSES OF ADDRESSEE STATES TO PROVISIONAL MEASURES
  • CHAPTER XVIII. FOLLOW-UP ON NON-COMPLIANCE
  • CONCLUSION
  • GENERAL CONCLUSION
  • SAMENVATTING
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • TABLE OF CASES
  • INDEX
  • CURRICULUM VITAE
  • SCHOOL OF HUMAN RIGHTS RESEARCH SERIES