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Online guide looking at international human rights law concerning the death penalty, written by
Michelle Miao, who is a British Academy Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham School of Law. The guide was published in 2015 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide covers the human rights standards established by treaties and declarations, the safeguards set by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and human rights law affecting the death penalty in Europe, America and Africa. The author also outlines the standards imposed by international human rights law in areas where capital punishment takes place.
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