An Introduction to the Organizational Structure, Enabling Statutes or Conventions, Case Processing Procedure, and Jurisdiction of the International Courts -- The Inter-American Human Rights System -- European International Human Rights Court System -- The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts of Rwanda and the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia -- The Special Court of Sierra Leone -- The International Criminal Court -- The International Human Rights Courts -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- European Court of Human Rights -- The International Ad Hoc Criminal Courts -- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda -- International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia Since 1991 -- The International Hybrid Criminal Courts -- The Special Court for Sierra Leona -- The Special Court for Sierra Leona -- The International Criminal Court (The Hague) -- Case 9: The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analyzed from a children’s human rights perspective and the question is examined as to what extent the international courts are according these children justice.