The Darfur Commission as a model for future responses to crisis situations

Journal of International Criminal Justice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 600-607

  Alston, Philip ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

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EID: 23844446684     PISSN: 14781387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jicj/mqi053     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. UN Press Release SC/8313, 16 February 2005.
2. GA Res. 46/59, 9 December 1991.
3. See generally A. Berg, 'The 1991 Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations', 4 European Journal of International Law (1993) 1.
4. See Côte d'Ivoire: Le rapport de la Commission d'enquête de l'ONU sur les événements du 25 mars 2004, which, although not yet officially published, is available on the website of Radio France Internationale at http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/053/ article_27857.asp (visited 26 April 2005), at §§ 84, 86 and 95.
5. UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/3, 7 May 2004, §103.
6. Report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Emmanuel Akwei Addo, UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/11, 28 February 2005, §60.
7. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk, Visit to the Darfur Region of the Sudan, UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/72/Add.5, 23 December 2004, §9.
8. Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons, Francis M. Deng, Mission to the Sudan: The Darfur Crisis, UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/8, 27 September 2004.
9. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary or Arbitraryarbitrary executions, Ms Asma Jahangir, Mission to the the Sudan, UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/7/Add.2, 6 August 2004, §57.
10. In addressing the Security Council, Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, characterized the findings of the Commission as 'clear and thoroughly documented', and as providing an eloquent and powerfully argued case for referring the situation to the International Criminal Court. UN Press Release SC/8313, 16 February 2005.
11. J.-M. Henckaerts and L. Doswald-Beck, Customary Humanitarian Law, Vol. 1: Rules (Cambridge: ICRC and Cambridge University Press, 2005).
12. UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/L.33/Rev.1, 18 April 2005.
13. UN doc. E/CN.4/2005/L.36/Rev.3, 21 April 2005.
14. A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, report of the Secretary General's High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (United Nations, 2004), §256. The recommendation was clearly inspired in part by the Panel's strong criticism of 'the glacial speed at which our institutions have responded to massive human rights violations in Darfur', ibid., §42.
15. ibid., §42.