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- ↑ Engle, Karen; Miller, Zinaida; Davis, D. M. (2016). Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-07987-8.
- ↑ Engle, Karen (2014–2015). "Anti-Impunity and the Turn to Criminal Law in Human Rights". Cornell Law Review. 100: 1069.
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- ↑ Mills, Kurt; Bloomfield, Alan (2018). "African resistance to the International Criminal Court: Halting the advance of the anti-impunity norm". Review of International Studies. 44 (1): 101–127. doi:10.1017/S0260210517000407.
- ↑ Reinold, Theresa (2020). "A new type of hybrid actor in global governance: anti-impunity commissions, shared sovereignty, and the rule of law". Verfassung in Recht und Übersee. 53 (3): 245–266. doi:10.5771/0506-7286-2020-3-245.
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