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Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Authors

Gautam Rana

First Page

349

Abstract

With the formation of the Bosnian and Rwandan War Crimes Tribunals, the international community has created a mechanism for the enforcement of human rights law for the first time since the Nuremburg and Tokyo War Trials. The efficacy of these tribunals, however, is in doubt. This Note proposes that only a few human rights are truly universal in nature and can be guaranteed by the international community. Furthermore, the political realities of the international system precludes the use of international tribunals against the more powerful nations of the international community. The Note concludes that by focusing on the human rights that can be protected, and protecting them, a baseline framework for the effective enforcement of human rights can be established from which no nations may deviate.

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