Plea Bargaining at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

The international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the forensic pathologist: ethical considerations.

Since 1991, war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been the subject of several international medico-legal investigations of mass graves within the framework of inquiries led by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Forensic pathologists involved in the ICTY missions could be subjected to ethical tensions due to the difficulties of the missions, the emergent con...

The Plea Bargaining Controversy

The WHO in the former Yugoslavia

In July 1992, In former Yugoslavia the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a humanitarian assistance programme. The programme was aimed at maintaining public health in the war-affected areas with 4 million refugees and displaced persons, over 200,000 dead, at least twice as many wounded, over 60,000 patients in need of rehabilitation and at least 1 million persons with deep psychological s...

Assessing the Impact of Outreach Activities by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

By referring to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as a case study, this paper seeks to explore the impact of outreach activities by international criminal tribunals. Building upon primary field research findings, including twenty-seven in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 108 respondents, this paper applies a theory-driven investigation of the impact of outre...

Plea Bargaining

Is plea bargaining, synonymous to pleading guilty. Day by day, partakers in criminal justice system are either in confusion or in an intellectual debate on the innovative changes in sentencing system under the Indian Criminal jurisprudence. Of course, root cause is the introduction of Chapter XXIA, in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, containing Sections 265 A to 265L, which deal with plea ...