The Prevention of Gross Human Rights Violations Under Intern ...

Nienke van der Have

This book contains a systematic assessment of the content and scope of obligations

to prevent gross human rights violations. There has been a great deal of attention for

concepts aiming to prevent gross human rights violations, such as conflict prevention

and the responsibility to protect. Yet despite this shift in attention towards prevention,

it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human rights

violations under international human rights law.

The focus in this book is on three specific types of injury prohibited under international

human rights law: torture, arbitrary death and genocide. Further distinctions are made

between four temporal phases (long-term prevention, short-term prevention, preventing

continuation, preventing recurrence) and territorial and extraterritorial obligations.

The structure of the book allows academics and practitioners to learn about obligations

to prevent gross human rights violations in a general sense, as well as find targeted

information on the content and scope of obligations in specific settings.

Nienke van der Have recently completed her Ph.D. at the Amsterdam Center for

International Law, which forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty

of Law, and currently works as Senior legal specialist at the department of

Constitutional Affairs and Legislation of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom

Relations of The Netherlands.

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