The practical guide to humanitarian law
By: Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier ; edited and translated by Laura Brav and Clémentine Olivier.
Contributors: Brav, Laura.; Olivier, Clémentine.; Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Edition: 2nd English language ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780742554955; 9780742554962
Subjects: Humanitarian law -- Dictionaries; Human rights -- Dictionaries; Treaties -- Ratification -- Indexes
Genres: Dictionaries.; Indexes.
Work titles: Dictionnaire pratique de droit humanitaire.
Description: "Definitions are often the first step toward granting or denying a person's rights. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, the Guide provides precise meaning and content for terms such as terrorism, refugee, genocide, and intervention - concepts that the media have introduced into everyday conversation, yet whose legal and political meanings are often obscure. The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries. Written from the perspective of victims and those who bring them assistance, the Guide outlines the dangers, spells out the law, and points the way toward dealing with violators and violations of the law." "Entries in the Guide are complemented by detailed bibliographic references, addresses, phone numbers, and internet addresses of the organizations presented; a thematic index; and an up-to-date list of the status of ratification of the more than twenty international conventions and treaties concerning humanitarian law, human rights, refugees, and international criminal law."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Médecins sans frontières/Doctors Without Borders"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.