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[email protected] (general correspondence) UNIVERSAL JURISDICTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report was written by Ariana Pearlroth and edited by Carla Ferstman of REDRESS. We have relied heavily on the following sources in the preparation of the information in the report: the Universal Jurisdiction Website (http://www.universaljurisdiction.info); Amnesty International’s report “Universal Jurisdiction - the duty of states to enact and enforce legislation,” AI Index: IOR 53/002/2001, 1 September 2001 (http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/pages/legal_memorandum); M.E.I. Brienen and E.H. Hoegen, Victims of Crime in 22 European Criminal Justice Systems: The Implementation of Recommendation (85) 11 of the Council of Europe on the Position of the Victim in the Framework of Criminal Law and Procedure, Dissertation, University of Tilburg (Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2000: Wolf Legal Productions (WLP)) (http://www.victimology.nl/onlpub/Brienenhoegen/BH.html); and REDRESS’ report, “Universal Jurisdiction in Europe: Criminal prosecutions in Europe since 1990 for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and genocide,” 30 June 1999 (http://www.redress.org/publications/UJEurope.pdf). The report has also benefited from country-specific information provided by a range of national human rights institutes and organisations, which was collected by REDRESS as part of a feasibility study for the Project on the approximation and/or harmonisation of standards at the EU level.