Reporting Killings as Human Rights Violations Handbook

How to document and respond to potential violations of the right to life within the international system for the protection of human rights

By Kate Thompson and Camille Giffard

Handbook links:

Table of Contents - Search - Part I: Essential Reading - Part II: Identifying a Potential Violation - Part III: How to Document Allegations of Unlawful Killings - Part IV: Responding to the Information Collected - Part V: Where can you Seek Further Help? - Appendices

I. Essential Reading: section links...

1. Introduction - 2. Using This Handbook - 3. What You Can Achieve By Taking Action - Summary of Part I

PART I - ESSENTIAL READING

1. Introduction

2. Using This Handbook

2.1. Outline of core chapters

2.2. Terminology

2.3. Essential policy issues

2.4. Practical advice

3. What You Can Achieve By Taking Action

3.1. Draw attention to a situation/establish a pattern of violations

3.2. Seek a remedy for an individual victim

3.3. Encourage reform of a state agency: Improvements in the implementation of international standards

Summary of Part I