The transformation of human rights fact-finding / edited by Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The transformation of human rights fact-finding : challenges and opportunities / Philip Alston and Sarah Knuckey -- Do facts exist, can they be 'found', and does it matter? / Frédéric Mégret -- International human rights fact-finding praxis : a TWAIL perspective / Obiora C. Okafor -- Human rights fact-finding and the reproduction of hierarchies / Dustin N. Sharp -- The gender politics of fact-finding in the context of the women, peace and security agenda / Fionnuala Ní Aoláin -- Fact-finding missions, legal clinics, and the politics of legal knowledge / Daniel Bonilla -- The relationship between fact-finders and witnesses in human rights fact-finding : what place for the victims? / Théo Boutruche -- "The danger of a single story" : introducing intersectionality in fact-finding / Shreya Atrey -- Victims and witnesses in fact-finding commissions : pawns or principal pieces? / Rosette Muzigo-Morrison -- The complex truth of testimony : a case study of human rights fact-finding in Iraq / Daniel Rothenberg -- Implications of trauma on testimonial evidence in international criminal trials / Laura Marschner -- Commissions of inquiry and the charm of international criminal law : between transactional and authoritative approaches / Larissa van den Herik and Catherine Harwood -- The interaction between human rights fact-finding and international criminal proceedings : towards a (new) typology / Carsten Stahn and Dov Jacobs -- "Truth without facts" : on the erosion of the fact-finding function of truth commissions / Pablo de Greiff -- Human rights fact-finding in the shadows of America's solitary confinement prisons / Taylor Pendergrass -- A conceptual roadmap for social science methods in human rights fact-finding / Margaret L. Satterthwaite and Justin C. Simeone -- Numbers are only human : lessons for human rights practitioners from the quantitative literacy movement / Brian Root -- Investigating economic, social, and cultural rights violations / Allison Corkery -- Democratizing human rights fact-finding / Molly K. Land -- The bigness of big data : samples, models, and the facts we might find when looking at data / Patrick Ball -- Mobile phones, social media, and big data in human rights fact-finding : possibilities, challenges, and limitations / Jay D. Aronson -- Remote sensing as a tool for human rights fact-finding / Susan R. Wolfinbarger -- Big (crisis) data : humanitarian fact-finding with advanced computing / Patrick Meier -- International norms in human rights fact-finding / Diane Orentlicher -- Developing norms of professional practice in the domain of monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding / Rob Grace and Claude Bruderlein.

act-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the centre of international disputes about alleged government abuses. Recently, there has been a huge increase in the number and variety of fact-finding mechanisms established, including by governments, intergovernmental bodies, nongovernmental organizations, and private actors. Human rights fact-finding is often controversial. This work examines this important topic

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