Abstract
It seems a priori that human rights and international criminal law are two very distinct categories. However, it is the two branches of contemporary international law that have experienced, since 1945 and particularly during the last 25 years, a particularly important development.
And this development has been, to a large extent, parallel. It was also the two branches that were at the center of Professor Emmanuel Decaux * 1's reflection, who devoted himself to it both as a professor of international law and as a member of the Subcommittee on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights.
United Nations, then member of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and in particular member and former chair of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances.