Other Grave Breaches of Human Rights: Prohibition of Genocide, Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Punishment or Treatment, Prohibition of Slavery and Forced Labour and Prohibition of Racial Discrimination and Apartheid

Abstract

AbstractThe chapter focuses on serious violations of human rights other than the right to life, analysing for example the vast international jurisprudence on the prohibition of genocide and on the prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Some particular aspects of the application of relevant international standards are also examined, including the so-called genocide denial; the conflict between State immunity or State organs immunity and the need to repress grave breaches of human rights; and the formation of new rights arising from the application of international norms on the prohibition of torture—such as the right to hope—or on the prohibition of slavery—as in the case of the prohibition of trafficking in human beings.