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An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: History
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: History
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Robertson traces the developing concept of human rights and sho ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: unmapped
This work explains, without legal jargon, exactly what the rules of international human rights are and what they should be; how they have developed and in what courts and tribunals they may be asserted and vindicated.
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: Philosophy and Religion
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in internat ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: Culture
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. H ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity : The Struggle for Global Justice (3rd edition 2006) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: History
PRE LOVED - In this fresh edition of the book which has inspired the global justice movement, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder - the crimes against humanity that have disfigured the world. He shows how human ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: Languages and Reference
Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as 'the greatest living Australian' and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him 'an Australian who has had a vowel transplant'. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: Culture
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY' Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of "free speech" is a myth. From the middl ...Show more
Media Law by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: Reference
Covers legal developments affecting journalists and broadcasters. This title includes coverage of various areas of media law, detailing the position on defamation, obscenity, official secrecy, copyright and confidentiality, contempt of court and protection of privacy. It also covers the regulation of fi ...Show more
Mullahs Without Mercy Human Rights and Nuclear Weapons (1st Edition) by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Category: Military
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster. - What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or America bombing Iran? - Will our children ever live in a world without nuclear weapons? - Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapo ...Show more
Nuremberg A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals by GEOFFREY. ROBERTSON
Category: History
On 18 October 1945, a day that would haunt him for ever, Airey Neave personally served the official indictments on the twenty-one top Nazis awaiting trial in Nuremberg - including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer. With his visit to their gloomy prison cells, the tragedy of an entire generat ...Show more