When donating to charitable causes, people do not value lives consistently. Money is often concentrated on a single victim even though more people would be helped, if resources were dispersed or spent protecting future victims. We examine the impact of deliberating about donation decisions on generosity. In a series of field experiments, we show that teaching or priming people to recognize the ...

This study is based on the secondary data gathered from various health institutions, human right organizations, a political party and news agencies in Nepal. The Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT) has its own primary data of traumatized victims from the mobile medical rescue team and from observing for human rights violations. There have been gross human rights abuses. Even the rescue team w...

This chapter uses a different prism to look at childhood victimization and its challenges, namely, a psycho–social one. Its goals are, first, to reveal what the psycho– social literature tells us about the needs of child victims; second, to test whether these findings may be correlated with children’s human rights discussed in the previous chapter, as reflected in the Convention; and third, to ...

The International Criminal Court’s legal aid scheme pays court-appointed victims’ lawyers. Yet, whether ICC or domestic proceedings can provide better victim satisfaction goes beyond the question of external internal representation is more effective in protecting rights. In circumstances where guilt difficult to prove, as ICC’s Kenya cases, interests may be satisfied by pursuing compensation fr...

Environmental litigation and enforcement of environmental rights remain a global challenge to sustainability, especially in developing countries such as Nigeria. The increasing rates industrial activities have led increase production hazardous substances posing threat lives the inhabitants environment. Victims harm most times find it difficult protect enforce their rights. Proving damages prope...

This Essay will argue that any transitional mechanism must be by its nature and temporal historical location a politically contested instrument. This can have differing political and social impacts, and impact on the human rights culture in the society in question. Based on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (”TRC”) experience, two rights-based issues – namely, human rights a...

Consideration of victims and how best to acknowledge their rights position in the criminal prosecution process has become an intrinsic part drafting negotiation new international law instruments. In studies states’ implementation victims’ rights, Sweden often places at top class. This article challenges concept successful human norms by critically analysing conformity Swedish with legal obligat...