Abstrakt
The topic (( Criminalization of the International Law of Human Rights }} is extremely interesting. At first blush, it may seem rather narrow, but, in reality, it is a vast subject.
This phenomenon has many facets. On the one hand, it may be addressed form the perspective of international criminal law where some new instruments also include the protection of human rights in various contexts.
The first one is obvious. It is a truism to say that the prevention and suppression of serious violations of human rights belong to the objectives of many international criminal law instruments, starting from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Law, to counter-terrorism conventions or some modem instruments against transnational organized crime, including (but not limited to) those on trafficking in human beings.
The second dimension relates to the protection of rights of victims of and also witnesses or other persons affected by international crimes. This seems to be the aspect, mostly neglected in the old instalments, that was given priority mainly in the past two decades.
Finally, the third dimension concerns the more traditional aspects of the protection of human rights of persons accused of crimes, in particular their procedural rights and safeguards.