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Finding, Verifying, and Curating Human Rights Facts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Margaret Satterthwaite
Margaret Satterthwaite*
Affiliation:
Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
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The Future of Human Rights Fact-Finding
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 62 - 65
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

References

1 While the concept of “naming and shaming” is certainly under-inclusive of what human rights advocates do, it is widely used to describe the documentation and publication strategies of major NGOs. See, e.g., Hafner-Burton, Emilie M., Sticks and Stones: Naming and Shaming and the Human Rights Enforcement Problem, 62 Int’l Org. 689 (2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Gready, Paul, Telling Truth? The Methodological Challenges of Truth Commissions, in Methods of Human Rights Research 159–85, 160 (Coomans, Fons, Granfeld, Fred & Kamminga, Menno T. eds., 2009)Google Scholar.

3 Wilson, Richard, Representing Human Rights Violations: Social Contexts and Subjectivities, in Human Rights, Culture & Context: Anthropological Perspectives 134–60 (1997)Google Scholar.

4 See Gready, Paul, Introduction: “Responsibility to the Story,” 2 J. Hum. Rts. Prac. 177 (2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Investigations and Their Methodology (Feb. 24, 2010), at http://unispal.un.Org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C9222F058467E6F6852576D500574710.

6 For a discussion of the dangers of professionalization for the human rights field, see Kennedy, David, The International Human Rights Regime: Still Part of the Problem?, in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights 19–34 (Dickinson, Rob, Katselli, Elena, Murray, Colin & Pedersen, Ole W. eds., 2012)Google Scholar.

7 For example, see Steinberg, Gerald M., Herzberg, Anne & Berman, Jordan, The Need for Standardized Fact-Finding Methodology, in Steinberg, Gerald M., Herzberg, Anne & Berman, Jordan, Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding 3–19 (2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 For example, see Guidelines on International Human Rights Fact-Finding Visits and Reports: The Lund-London Guidelines (June 1, 2009), http://www.factfindingguidelines.org/.

9 Langford, Malcolm & Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, The Turn to Metrics, 30 Nordic J. Hum. Rts. 222, 223 (2012)Google Scholar.

10 See United Nations, Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, U.N. DOC. E/ST/CSDHA/.12 (1991).

11 Id.

12 Nancy Combs, Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions 7 (2010).

13 Id. at 12.

14 Id. at 13–14.