Terrorism and Human Rights
Contents: Preface. 1. The root cause of terrorism in India. 2. Exploring root and trigger causes of terrorism. 3. The criminology of terrorism. 4. Removing the policy requirement and extending crimes against humanity. 5. Inclusion of terrorism in the category of international crimes. 6. Terrorism and the law of war. 7. National security, terrorism, and limitations on human rights. 8. Combating terrorism: the challenge of measuring effectiveness. 9. Human rights challenges in the context of terrorism and counter-terrorism. 10. Human security: linking development and security in an age of terror. 11. Strategy for a new world: combating terrorism and transnational organized crime. 12. The day the world changed: terrorism and world order. Bibliography. Index.
Human rights are relevant to terrorism as concerns both its victims and its perpetrators. The concept of human rights was first expressed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which established recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. The innocent victims of terrorism suffer an attack on their most basic right to live in peace and security. The suspected perpetrators of attacks also have rights, as members of the human family, in the course of their apprehension and prosecution. They have the right not to be subject to torture or other degrading treatment, the right to be presumed innocent until they are deemed guilty of the crime and the right to public trial.
Human rights are relevant to terrorism as concerns both its victims and its perpetrators. The concept of human rights was first expressed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which established recognition of the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. The innocent victims of terrorism suffer an attack on their most basic right to live in peace and security. The suspected perpetrators of attacks also have rights, as members of the human family, in the course of their apprehension and prosecution. They have the right not to be subject to torture or other degrading treatment, the right to be presumed innocent until they are deemed guilty of the crime and the right to public trial.
