IAP Human Rights Manual For Prosecutors
At the 5th IAP Annual Conference in Cape Town in 2000 the Association established a Human Rights Forum to be chaired by Egbert Myjer (The Netherlands). The first work was the development of a Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors (the Manual). This work was pursued with the help of a Dutch law student, Marnix Alink, and in consultation with Knut Kallerud (Norway), Gordon Lerve (Australia), the President and the General Counsel.
By the time the IAP met in London in 2002 The Manual was in essence ready but issues of detail remained. These have now been settled in consultation with colleagues and the President was able in Washington to launch The Manual and present the first official copy to our host Christopher A Wray.
The Manual takes the reader through the prosecution process and details the relevant sections from international conventions and also international soft law documents. Readers can then put their own local relevant law, treaty commitments and jurisprudence alongside it and have a ready-made guide to human rights for themselves and their colleagues in a domestic context. The IAP does not seek to dictate on these matters but rather seeks to enable colleagues to see, in the context of their own jurisdiction’s commitments, what international human rights instruments apply to their work.
Our thanks go to all those involved in the production of and consultation for The Manual and especially to Egbert Myjer for all his untiring work.
This Manual has now been expanded and updated in particular to include a chapter on Terrorism, a companion training manual will be published shortly.
IAP Human Rights Manual for Prosecutors (Second Edition)
The Manual takes the reader through the prosecution process and details the relevant sections from international conventions and also international soft law documents. Readers can then put their own local relevant law, treaty commitments and jurisprudence alongside it and have a ready-made guide to human rights for themselves and their colleagues in a domestic context.
The Manual has now been expanded and updated in particular to include a chapter on Terrorism, a companion training manual will be published shortly.
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