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Federico Fabbrini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the european court of human rights extraordinary renditions and the right to the truth ensuring accountability for the gross human rights violations committed in the Fight against Terrorism
    Social Science Research Network, 2015
    Co-Authors: Federico Fabbrini
    Abstract:

    On 13 December 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a milestone decision in the quest to ensure accountability of gross human rights violations committed in the Fight against Terrorism. The case, El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, concerned the extraordinary rendition to torture of an individual wrongly suspected of being involved in Terrorism activities. The ECtHR found that by seizing, detaining and secretly transferring Mr El-Masri to the custody of United States (US) intelligence agents, Macedonia had violated the prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, the prohibition of arbitrary detention, the right to private and family life and the right to access to court as protected under the European Convention on Human Rights, and ordered the respondent government to pay damages in compensation. The decision of the ECtHR broke the wall of secrecy and impunity with which the case of Mr El-Masri had been treated at the domestic level and fully vindicated his human rights’claims. At the same time, the ECtHRcautiously endorsed a new paradigm of the 'right to the truth' that is: a right for the victim and the public at large to know about the abuses committed by governments in the field of national securitycincreasing the chances of accountability in future cases of gross human rights violations. Nevertheless, the decision also left some issues open, as the ECtHR did not, and could not, address the culpability of US agents who effectively tortured Mr El-Masri in Macedonia, secretly transferred him to Afghanistan and detained him there in inhumane conditions. From this point of view, therefore, the article argues that the decision of the ECtHR should be seen as an opportunity for further action in the US to ensure the full vindication of the values on which our liberty, and our security, ultimately rest.

  • the european court of human rights extraordinary renditions and the right to the truth ensuring accountability for gross human rights violations committed in the Fight against Terrorism
    Human Rights Law Review, 2014
    Co-Authors: Federico Fabbrini
    Abstract:

    On 13 December 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a milestone decision in the quest to ensure accountability of gross human rights violations committed in the Fight against Terrorism. The case, El-Masri v The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, concerned the extraordinary rendition to torture of an individual wrongly suspected of being involved in Terrorism activities. The ECtHR found that by seizing, detaining and secretly transferring Mr El-Masri to the custody of United States (US) intelligence agents, Macedonia had violated the prohibition of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment, the prohibition of arbitrary detention, the right to private and family life and the right to access to court as protected under the European Convention on Human Rights, and ordered the respondent government * Assistant Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law, Tilburg Law School and Coordinator of the Research Group on ‘Constitutional Responses to Terrorism’ within the International Association of Constitutional Law (f.fabbrini@tilburguniversity.edu). I am grateful to David Cole, Lech Garlicki, Kasia Granat, Martin Scheinin, Sudha Setty and Clive Walker for their helpful comments on a first draft of this article. All errors remain my own. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human Rights Law Review (2013), 1 of 26 Human Rights Law Review Advance Access published October 31, 2013

Peter Hilpold - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the Fight against Terrorism and sc resolution 2249 2015 towards a more hobbesian or a more kantian international society
    Social Science Research Network, 2016
    Co-Authors: Peter Hilpold
    Abstract:

    SC Res. 2249 of 20 November 2015 was intended to open up a new chapter in the Fight against Terrorism in general and against ISIS in particular. However, in academia this Resolution was received with criticism and stupor. First attempts to interpret this Resolution ended up in inconclusiveness. In this article, after an analysis of SC Resolution 2249, it will be shown that the criteria developed for assessing jus ad bellum in inter-state relations are of no easy application in the relationship between states and non-state actors and in particular in regard to terrorists. If the prohibition of the use of force applies at all in this field this has to happen in a largely modified way. Fears that a lowered threshold for the use of force against terrorists will introduce a new “Hobbesian” element in international law do not appear to be justified. On the contrary, it is argued here that a state community showing more solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism will reinforce their Kantian traits. Res. 2249 can offer an important contribution for such a development to take place.

  • The Fight against Terrorism and SC Resolution 2249 (2015): towards a more Hobbesian or a more Kantian International Society?
    Indian Journal of International Law, 2015
    Co-Authors: Peter Hilpold
    Abstract:

    Security Council Resolution 2249 of 20 November 2015 was intended to open a new chapter in the Fight against Terrorism in general and against ISIS in particular. However, in academia this Resolution was received with criticism. After an analysis of SC Resolution 2249, it will be argued that the criteria developed for assessing jus ad bellum in inter-state relations are of no easy application in the relationship between states and non-state actors and in particular in regard to terrorists. If the prohibition of the use of force applies at all, this has to happen in a largely modified way. Fears that a lowered threshold for the use of force against terrorists will introduce a new “Hobbesian” element in international law do not appear to be justified. On the contrary, an international community showing more solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism will reinforce their Kantian traits. Resolution 2249 can offer an important contribution for such a development to take place.

Lal A. Pinnaduwage - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Axel Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.

  • explosives a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Anthony C Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.

Richard T. Lareau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Axel Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.

  • explosives a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Anthony C Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.

D.l Hedden - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Axel Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.

  • explosives a microsensor for trinitrotoluene vapour
    Nature, 2003
    Co-Authors: Govindarajan Muralidharan, D.l Hedden, Lal A. Pinnaduwage, Thomas Thundat, Anthony C Gehl, Richard T. Lareau
    Abstract:

    Sensing devices designed to detect explosive vapours are bulky, expensive and in need of technological improvement — dogs remain the most effective detectors1 in the Fight against Terrorism and in the removal of land-mines2,3. Here we demonstrate the deflagration of trinitrotoluene (TNT) in a small localized explosion on an uncoated piezoresistive microcantilever. This explosive-vapour sensor, which has a detection capability that is comparable to that of a dog, should enable extremely sensitive, miniature detection devices to be used on a large scale.