Oxford University Press, 2018. — 352 p. The European Court of Human Rights is one of the main players in interpreting international human rights law where issues of general international law arise. While developing its own jurisprudence for the protection of human rights in the European context, it remains embedded in the developments of general international law. However,...
Ashgate, 2014. — 409 p. — (Law and Migration). — ISBN: 9781409442974 ; ISBN: 9781409442981 ; ISBN: 9781409474586. In bringing this volume together, we hope to address how various regions tackle the asylum crisis through regulatory and institutional frameworks. There is an extensive literature on the asylum crisis but the regional focus of this volume is under-researched. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 935 p. The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by...
Brill, 2015. — 368 p. — (Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development). In The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions, Handa Abidin identifies legal approaches that can be used by indigenous peoples to protect their rights in the context of REDD-plus.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. - XXIV+361 p. Using a vast array of government documents, newspapers, journals, memoirs of political prisoners, and reports issued by the Special Representative appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), Reza Afshari provides a rich, sensitive, and very sympathetic presentation of the experiences and...
4th ed. — Routledge, 2020. — 598 р. This book examines the rights of the child using the global framework of the United Nations International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989. Analysing both public and private international legal aspects, this cross-disciplinary text promotes a holistic understanding of the ongoing development of child law, children’s rights and the...
Brill, 2013. — 444 p. Slavery in International Law sets out the law related to slavery and lesser servitudes, including forced labour and debt bondage; thus developing an overall understanding of the term human 'exploitation', which is at the heart of the definition of trafficking.
Hart Publishing, 2004. — 325 p. In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in connection with the founding of a US military facility on the island of Diego Garcia. Consequently, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were secretly exiled to Mauritius, where they became chronically impoverished. This...
Hart Publishing, 2005. — 257 p. — ISBN: 1-84113-506-2. This work focuses on the concept of culture and its place in human rights law. The suggestion in this book is that the idea of a right to culture has not been subjected to sufficiently rigorous scrutiny and some inherited positions need to be questioned. The author argues that the dominant approach in human rights law links...
2nd rev. ed. — Brill, 2015. — 1959 p. The International Law of Youth Rights is a unique, pioneering study tracing the origin, growth and basic features of the international law of youth rights. It consists of both source documents and commentary on the historical trends to elaborate and codify international instruments and standards in this field as well as action taken by...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 262 p. Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from...
Springer Netherlands, 2013. — 424 p. Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national constitutional levels. It is maintained that universalism of human rights is...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 421 p. Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as a whole, and it is no exaggeration to say that most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products. Movies, television programs, fiction, children’s literature,...
E-International Relations, 2020. — 169 p. — ISBN: 978-1-910814-48-2 The purpose of this edited collection is to appraise the role of the United Nations in relation to the principle of self-determination. This book takes a practical approach to discussing what role the UN plays in cases of self-determination and, importantly, it also ventures beyond this area’s usual discussions...
Springer Netherlands, 2012. — 250 p. Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a new perspective. The first part describes the soft threats to human rights,...
Brill, Nijhoff, 2014. — 178 p. — (Developments in International Law). Ernst Hirsch Ballin discusses the significance of citizens' rights against the backdrop of ongoing migration and urbanization in the beginning of the 21st century. The traditional view that each state has the sovereign power to give or withhold citizenship, puts the full enjoyment of human rights at risk...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 641 p. — ISBN: 978– 0– 19– 881044– 5. The idea for this book was conceived while the two editors were engaged with the Greek Parliamentary Committee on the Truth of the Greek Debt in 2015. The findings of the Committee, under the inspired leadership of Eric Toussaint, made it abundantly clear that a country’s debt is a complex phenomenon, where...
3rd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 1010 p. — ISBN 978-1-108-71175-3. This unique textbook merges human rights law with its practice, from the courtroom to the battlefield. Human rights are analysed in their particular context, and the authors assess, among other things, the impact of international finance, the role of NGOs, and the protection of rights in times...
Brill, 2006. — 433 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 90). Mental disability has come of age as a subject of concern under the European Convention on Human Rights. It was only in 1979 that the first significant decision of the ECHR was decided on the subject, and after that, cases were relatively few for many years. It is only recently that this has begun to change....
Routledge, 2018. — 208 p. This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes...
Hart Publishing, 2007. — 488 p. The jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) generally demonstrates that no rule of international law can be interpreted and applied without regard to its innate values and the basic principles of human rights. Through its case-law, the ICJ has made immense contributions to the development of human rights law, and in so doing...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 382 p. Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. — 524 p. Inquisitive and diverse, this innovative Research Handbook explores the ways in which human rights apply to people at work, through national constitutional provisions, judicial decisions and the application of rights expressed in supranational instruments. Analysing why certain human rights are deemed fundamental and how they apply in the...
Brill, 2008. — 312 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials 73). Under international human rights law, states are required to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate, punish and provide redress for acts of violence against women. Accordingly, the due diligence standard presents a way to measure whether a state has fulfilled its obligations to prevent and respond to violence against...
Routledge, 2012. — 180 p. Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial issues of legal process, religion, access to care, and...
Edward Elgar, 2020. — 562 p. — ISBN 1788972139 9781788972130. This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century's policy...
MIT Press, 2010. — 254 p. Guidance for maintaining national security without abandoning the rule of law and our democratic values. In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on terrorism," the Bush administration argued that the United States was in a new kind of conflict,...
University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 202 p. In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United Nations and...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2007. — 625 p. This book is a comprehensive overview of multiple nationality in international law, and contains a survey of current State practice covering over 75 countries. It examines the topic in light of the historical treatment of multiple nationality by States, international bodies and commentators, setting out the general trends in international law...
Routledge, 2018. — 282 p. This book explores the increasing concern over the extent to which those suffering from forced cross-border displacement as a result of environmental change are protected under international human rights law. Formally they are not entitled to admission or stay in a third state country, a situation that has been identified as an international "legal...
Brill, 2008. — 268 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 97). Insufficient access to a basic water supply is not an unavoidable consequence of water scarcity. In fact, arid countries possess enough resources to fulfil the basic water needs of their populations and there are people in water rich countries suffering from water stress, too. Thus, insufficient freshwater...
Routledge, 2020. — 245 p. This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC). New minorities are increasingly confronted with restrictions of their religious practices and have addressed...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers \ Brill Academic, 2008. — 597 p. — (Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe 15). Since its launch in 1995, the majority of personal data held in the Schengen Information System (SIS) concerns third-country nationals to be refused entry to the Schengen territory. This study reveals why the use of SIS (and the second generation SIS or SIS II)...
Routledge, 2016. — 204 p. Human rights, peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in the past decades as important components of international law and practice. Adopting a methodology of Institutional Ethnography informed by Actor-Network Theory, this book traces the practices of law and expertise from global IGO headquarters to the ‘field’ and back again, and...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 372 p. A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for US policy makers during and after World War II. Rowland Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within certain domestic non-governmental...
Brill, 2016. — 684 p. — (Nottingham Studies on Human Rights 5). In this edited collection, leading jurists and scholars examine how far regional and international human rights bodies borrow from and influence each other in their decisions and practices - and whether international human rights law is heading towards fragmentation or greater coherence. We live in an era of...
Purdue University Press, 2012. — 259 p. Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the...
Routledge, 2021. — 423 p. — (Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law). The emergence of new and substantial human migration flows is one of the most important consequences of globalization. While ascribable to widely differing social and economic causes, from the forced migration of refugees to upper-middle-class migration projects and the movement of highly skilled workers, what...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 307 p. This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics. By adding domestic politics and the actors to the international level of analysis, the authors add the insights of Kenneth Waltz, Graham Allison, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 307 p. This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics. By adding domestic politics and the actors to the international level of analysis, the authors add the insights of Kenneth Waltz, Graham Allison, and...
Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017. — 460 p. Addressing the reality that non-state actors do violate human rights in practice, which cannot be overlooked, author Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli argues that the foundations and main principles of international human rights law call for the regulation of direct non-state obligations and responsibilities, given the potential failure of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 684 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02787-9. International human rights law offers an overarching international legal framework to help determine the legality of the use of any weapon, as well as its lawful supply. It governs acts of States and non-State actors alike. In doing so, human rights law embraces international humanitarian law regulation of...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 438 p. — ISBN: 978-1-316-51002-5. Policing is commonly thought to be governed by domestic legal systems and not international law. However, various international legal standards are shown to have an impact in situations where police use force. Police Use of Force under International Law explores this tension in detail for the first time. It...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 802 p. The Right to Life under International Law offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life. It describes the history, content, and status of the right, considers jurisdictional issues, and discusses the application of the right to a wide range of groups, such as women,...
Routledge, 2019. — 208 p. This book offers a critical reinterpretation of Western European States’ programmatic support for International Human Rights Law (IHRL) since the 1970s. It examines the systemic or structural constraints inherent to the international legal system and argues that order trumps justice in Western Europe’s promotion of international human rights norms. The...
Brill, 2007. — 516 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 94). When does international law allow a State or group of States to adopt trade measures in order to "coerce" another State to comply with its international obligations to ensure respect for human rights? In answering this question this book draws together complex areas of international law which include the rules...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 200 p. In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted the ground-breaking Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) placing women at the centre of the agenda, thanks to years of campaigning. The Resolution recognises the differential impact of armed conflict on women and men, draws attention to the 'inextricable links between gender...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 380 p. Does public service liberalization pose a threat to gender and human rights? Traditionally considered essential services provided by a state to its citizens, public services are often viewed as public goods which embody social values. Subjecting them to market ideology thus raises concerns that the intrinsic social nature of these...
Brill, 2018. — 302 p. In Cultural Rights in International Law and Discourse, Pok Yin S. Chow explains why the very understanding of 'culture' as described in international human rights law failed to capture and address the cultural concerns of groups and communities worldwide.
Brill - Nijhoff, 2010. — 316 p. This book provides a precise concept of international human rights law, its development and the tangible meaning of civil and political rights, economic and social rights. It has highlighted women's rights, globalization, human rights education, role of the UN and NGOs to protect human rights.
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 1052 p. The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law brings together the diverse sources of international law that define the right to a fair trial in the context of criminal (as opposed to civil, administrative or other) proceedings. The book provides a comprehensive explanation of what the right to a fair trial means in practice under...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 370 p. Statelessness’ is a legal status denoting lack of any nationality, a status whereby the otherwise normal link between an individual and a state is absent. The increasingly widespread problem of statelessness has profound legal, social, economic and psychological consequences but also gives rise to the paradox of an international community that...
ITexLi, 2022. — 145 p. — ISBN 1839688742 9781839688744 1839688734 9781839688737 1839688750 9781839688751. This book is a collection of narratives and research that explores our understanding of human rights in the contemporary world. The chapters highlight the narrative and experiences of researchers and academics who seek to ensure that human rights are implemented in policies...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 1344 p. The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a comprehensive, critical work, which analyses the state of research across the refugee law regime as a whole. Drawing together leading and emerging scholars, the Handbook provides both doctrinal and theoretical analyses of international refugee law and practice. It critiques existing...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 329 p. Defensive Relativism describes how governments around the world use cultural relativism in legal argument to oppose international human rights law. Defensive relativist arguments appear in international courts, at the committees established by human rights treaties, and at the United Nations Human Rights Council. The aim of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 646 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-68758-8. This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 646 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-68758-8. This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people. There are a growing number of scholars around the world who have conducted in-depth, qualitative research inside of youth prisons, and about young...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. International law and most national legal systems recognize the right to strike as a fundamental human right. However, the most common qualification for a strike is that the action must first be approved by ballot. These types of requirements are often said to be necessary to protect the democratic rights of the workers - the so-called...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic, 2007. — 320 p. — (Procedural Aspects of International Law 28). The Role of International Law in the Elimination of Child Labor offers an indispensible contribution to current debates on child labor. It addresses a broad range of subdisciplines, analyzing child labor in the context of social, economic, and cultural issues. The first...
Hart Publishing, 2003. — 370 p. Much has been written on the human rights relevance and impacts of the policies and activities of the World Bank and IMF, or International Financial Institutions (IFIs). However, while many of the human rights-based critiques of the Bank and Fund purport to link broadly defined reforms with obligations under international human rights law, rarely...
Hart Publishing, 2003. — 361 p. Much has been written on the human rights relevance and impacts of the policies and activities of the World Bank and IMF --or International Financial Institutions (IFIs). However while many of the human rights-based critiques of the Bank and Fund purport to link broadly defined reforms with obligations under international human rights law,rarely...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 416 p. As the law and politics of migration become increasingly intertwined, this thought-provoking Research Handbook addresses the challenge of analysing their relationship. Discussing the evolving theoretical approaches to migration, it explores the growing attention given to the legal frameworks for migration and the expansion of regulation,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 231 p. This book explores the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under globalizing forces, migration law has been transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration, and informs the shape this crackdown is taking. Even as states ratchet up provisions to end...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 318 p. — ISBN: 0521878179. This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in U.S. federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan family could sue a Paraguayan official under the Alien Tort Statute, a dormant provision of the 1789 Judiciary Act, for torture committed in Paraguay. Since then,...
Hart Publishing, 2011. — 278 p. The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 272 p. Father Robert F. Drinan—priest, scholar, lawyer, politician, activist, and ethicist—has spent his life working to strengthen human rights. In this important book, Father Drinan explores the state of religious freedom worldwide, arguing that international law and legal institutions have not gone far enough to protect religious freedom. The...
Routledge, 2022. — 357 p. This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa. It contains an analysis of the relevant norms and monitoring mechanisms at the regional level, and case studies from selected African and other developing countries. The WHO...
Stanford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual...
Springer, 2023. — 221 p. The aim of the book is to resolve the question of whether multiple sanctioning systems are contrary to the ne bis in idem under the regulation provided by Protocol 7 to the ECHR and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. The first part is a comparative study regarding the lawfulness of multiple sanctioning systems under the ne bis in idem, studying the...
Hart Publishing, 2016. — 359 p. Human security provides one of the most important protections; a person-centred axis of freedom from fear, from want and to live with dignity. It is surprising given its centrality to the human experience, that its connection with human rights has not yet been explored in a truly systematic way. This important new book addresses that gap in the...
Routledge, 2020. — 216 p. This book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of the first three cycles of the UPR, the work offers a...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 428 р. — (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law). — ISBN:0521550211.
In this fascinating book Malcolm Evans describes in detail the ways in which the freedom of religious belief has been incorporated into the legislation of the countries of Europe. He goes on to examine the mechanisms by which this freedom is guaranteed, and...
Brill, 2007. — 152 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials 71). Falcón y Tella (law and legal philosophy, U. Complutense de Madrid) describes the recent movement to recognize that individuals as well as states are subject to international law, and the impact of that on humanitarian law and international criminal law. Among other issues, he examines the International Criminal Court, which...
Hart Publishing, 2018. — 602 p. In armed conflicts around the world, children are being killed, raped, abducted and recruited to fight at a shocking scale. In light of this continuing general failure to protect children in conflict, it is questionable whether existing international law norms and institutions provide sufficient protection and accountability. Consideration needs...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 313 p. — ISBN: 9780190611279. The first purpose of this book, and the one reflected in its organization, is to begin a structural critique of some of these systemic features of IHRL. Most scholarly discussions of IHRL focus on a handful of contentious issues, such as which interests are worthy of inclusion in the human rights pantheon; why...
Routledge, 2021. — 297 p. This volume presents a systematic collection of the various international legal sources that define the rights of religious minorities. In a time of increasing tensions around religious minorities, this volume presents a systematic collection of international and European documents on the protection and promotion of religious minorities’ rights. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 490 p.
This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies. It comprises a comparative study that was conducted at international, regional, and comparative country levels and that highlights critical success factors in implementing disability strategies or action plans...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 846 p. If the sheer number of references to human rights in media headlines or government statements is of any guidance, human rights concerns now appear virtually at the center of the framework of the norms, principles and obligations that shape relations within the international community both among and within states. That political...
Second Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 975 p. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights explores both the theory and the practice of international human rights with a focus on the norms and institutions that make up the “architecture” of the global human rights regime and the tools, processes and procedures through which such norms are...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out in the field of international development assistance, at theoretical, international legislative and policy levels, donor and national policy levels and programme levels. If current dominant theoretical...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 443 p. A range of emerging refugee claims is beginning to challenge the boundaries of the Refugee Convention regime and question traditional distinctions between ‘economic migrants’ and ‘political refugees’. This book identifies the conceptual and analytical challenges presented by claims based on socioeconomic deprivation, and assesses the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 298 p. In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies. When a right is violated or damage is caused, access to justice is of fundamental importance for the injured individual and it is an essential component of the rule of law....
Hart Publishing, 2007. — 438 p. This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights. It is the result of a collaborative effort which brings together the contributions of a select group of experts from academia and from international organisations with the purpose of discussing the...
Brill, 2013. — 488 p. Islam and International Law explores the multi-faceted relationship of Islam and international law. Current debates on Sharia, Islam and the "West" often suffer from prejudice and platitudes. The book seeks to engage such self-centrism by providing a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of interdisciplinary research and geographic backgrounds.
Hart Publishing, 2016. — 412 p. International refugee law anticipates state conduct in relation to nationality, statelessness and protection. Refugee status under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 and regional and domestic instruments referring to it can be fully understood only against the background of international laws regarding nationality,...
Hart Publishing, 2022. — 282 p. This book explores a democratic theory of international law. Characterised by a back-and-forth between theory and practice, it explores the question from two perspectives: a theoretical level which reflects and criticizes the categories, words and concepts through which international law is understood, and a more applied level focussing on...
Brill, 2015. — 354 p. — (International Refugee Law 3). This edited volume focuses on current challenges in refugee law and global displacement. It is based on cutting-edge research on a series of legal and quasi-legal issues, in the field of forced migration at the national, regional, and international level. Protection challenges around the globe require innovative legal,...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic, 2005. — 370 p. This volume presents new thinking on minority and indigenous rights in international law. Debates that receive attention in this volume include self-determination, definitional issues, collective rights and rights to natural resources. Other chapters unravel challenges that have not attracted sufficient attention to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 434 p. This book provides a new interpretation of international law specifically dedicated to Indigenous peoples in the context of a climate justice approach. The book presents a critical analysis of past and current developments at the intersection of human rights and international environmental law and governance. The book suggests new ways...
Routledge, 2022. — 500 p. The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations brings international scholarship on transnational human rights obligations into a comprehensive and wide-ranging volume. Each chapter combines a thorough analysis of a particular issue area and provides a forward-looking perspective of how extraterritorial human rights obligations...
Routledge, 2014. — 375 p. Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Obligations beyond this territorial space have been viewed as either being absent or minimalistic at best. However, the territorial paradigm has now been seriously challenged in recent years in part because of the...
Routledge, 1991. — 192 p. What role can US domestic courts play in the worldwide enforcement of human rights? When international courts deny hearings to individual plaintiffs who cannot obtain the sponsorship of their own government (which may well be the defendant), these plaintiffs are finding US courts increasingly willing to hear their cases. This volume considers the...
Second Revised Edition. — Brill, 2016. — 352 p. This book addresses the right of indigenous peoples to live, own and use their traditional territories, and analyses how international law addresses this. Through its meticulous examination of the interaction between international law and indigenous peoples’ land rights, the work explores several burning issues such as collective...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 403 p. This monograph could not be more timely, as discourses relating to refugees’ access to territory, rescue at sea, push-back, and push-back by proxy dominate political debate. Looking at the questions which lie at the junction of migration control and refugee law standards, it explores the extent to which readmission can hamper refugees’ access to...
Routledge, 2020. — 288 p. The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists, but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different analytical methods and theoretical lenses that can be...
Fourth Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 864 p. The status of the refugee in international law, and of everyone entitled to protection, has ever been precarious, not least in times of heightened and heated debate: people have always moved in search of safety, and they always will. In this completely revised and updated edition, the authors cast new light on the...
Routledge, 2022. — 192 p. This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights. The experience of destitution correlates to the non-realisation of a range of economic, social, and cultural rights. However, destitution has not been defined from this perspective. Consequently, the nexus...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. — 575 p. This comprehensive Research Handbook offers an in-depth examination of the most significant factors affecting compliance with international human rights law, which has emerged as one of the key problems in the efforts to promote effective protection of human rights. In particular, it examines the relationships between regional human...
Brill, 2011. — 198 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials 75). In times of conflict, women have traditionally been excluded from protection of the law. This book analyzes the treatment of sex and gender crimes under international law by identifying various legal eras, from the inception of international criminal law until its most recent formulation, the Rome Statute. The author conducts...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 416 p. The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community. Updated in 2005, the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Combat Impunity is the fruit of several years of study, developed under the aegis of the UN Commission on Human Rights and then affirmed by the...
Routledge, 2017. — 312 p. This title was first published in 2002: This text addresses the problem of conflict that arises between the human right to freedom of religion and the human right to freedom of belief, for example, certain religious beliefs are in conflict with certain women's rights. The principal goal of this book is to distinguish between the more formalized, and...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 216 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691194-06-8. Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million people have obtained a second citizenship...
Hart Publishing, 2007. — 268 p. This book examines the impact of international trade rules on the promotion and protection of human rights, and explains why human rights are an important mechanism for assessing the social justice impact of the international trading system. The core of the book is an in depth analysis of the various ways in which international trade law rules...
Brill, 2008. — 304 p. — (Studies in Religion, Secular Beliefs and Human Rights 7). This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in recent years predominantly from Western scholars. Thus it is interesting and important to have the field addressed from a non -Western perspective and by an Iranian...
Routledge, 2015. — 255 p. Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe, the Americas and Africa. These regional human rights mechanisms have proven to be useful and effective in comparison to the global human rights mechanisms available at the United Nations. The purpose of this study, first published in 2004, is to...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 1238 p. States are increasingly challenging the logic of simply assimilating refugees to their own citizens. Questions are now raised about whether refugees should be allowed to enjoy freedom of movement, to work, to access public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members. Doubts have been expressed about the propriety of exempting...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 1645 p. The American Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first comprehensive and systematic article-by-article commentary of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) in English. This book offers an exhaustive and critical analysis of each of the 82 articles of the Convention, covering the substantive elements of the rights and...
Routledge, 2017. — 345 p. There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society. Both are necessary to realise thriving, inclusive societies, with adequate living standards for all, based on human dignity. This edited volume brings together the two topics for the first...
Routledge, 2020. — 262 p. Since 1945 more than 20 international legal instruments dealing specifically with women have been modified or consummated, reflecting a growing international consensus on issues concerning women's role in society. This book is the first complete collection and examination of this group of documents. Dr. Hevener analyzes each of the agreements and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 208 p. International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way that states interact with each other, with international institutions, and even with their own constituents. The area subjected to the most intense restructuring has perhaps been human rights. The rise of the international...
Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should be restricted to protect the religious feelings of...
Hart Publishing, 2016. — 416 p. In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 457 p. Child labour remains a widespread problem around the world. Over 200 million children can be regarded as child labourers, and about 10 million children are involved in producing either agricultural or manufactured products for export. Franziska Humbert explores the status of child labour in international law. Offering a wide-ranging...
Brill, 2017. — 297 p. — (International Refugee Law Series). In Temporary Protection in Law and Practice, Meltem Ineli-Ciger provides guidance to states on how to implement a viable temporary protection regime in line with international law by analysing temporary protection laws and policies in Europe, Southeast Asia, Turkey and the United States.
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-22615-9 ; ISBN: 978-90-04-22616-6. The period after the Cold War has been marked by conflict despite what was hoped to be a peaceful and collaborative world. Violence and persecution continue to be committed in different corners of the world which compels many people to flee their countries and seek protection in...
SUNY Press, 2010. — 308 p. Essays assessing the impact of globalization on law and court systems across the world. Globalization is a far-reaching and multifaceted phenomenon whose effects on law are just beginning to be appreciated fully. Globalizing Justice examines the effects of globalization on law and court systems in the developed and developing worlds. How has the...
Brill, 2016. — 400 p. — (Studies in Intercultural Human Rights). Collective cultural rights are commonly perceived as the most neglected or least developed category of human rights. Cultural Rights as Collective Rights - An International Law Perspective endeavours to challenge this view and offers a comprehensive, critical analysis of recent developments in distinct areas of...
NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 1097 p. — ISBN10: 0-521-78042-X. The original human rights concepts articulated in the 1948 Universal Declaration have evolved considerably. Nihal Jayawickrama encapsulates the judicial interpretation of human rights law from all available sources in one comprehensive volume, covering superior court case law of over fifty-five countries,...
Springer-Verlag, 2014. — 325 p. This book is designed to introduce law students, legal actors and human rights activists, particularly frequent or potential participants in human rights dialogues with China, to the process and reality of a newly confident China’s participation in the international human rights system, albeit with inherent challenges. It has its origins in my...
Routledge/GlassHouse, 2022. — 217 p. Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women’s lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes. Exemplifying how feminist approaches can be used to analyse all areas of international law, this book applies...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book provides a detailed analysis of South Africa’s actions on the UN Human Rights Council, examining the country’s positions on civil and political rights, economic rights and development, social groups whose rights are frequently violated, and abuses in specific countries. The most detailed and comprehensive study of any country’s record on the...
Edward Elgar, 2010. - 611 p. - ISBN: 978-1-84720-368-7 (cased) This innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25 leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a broad range of human rights topics. The book discusses a wide range of contemporary themes, for example jurisdictional issues, such as human rights in the private sphere and...
Hart Publishing, 2004. — 177 p. Since the mid-1980s, beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the company’s home states. The highest profile cases have been the human rights claims brought against MNCs (such as...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. — 480 p. In recent years the UNCHR has expressed increasing concern at how war, violence and persecution have resulted in an age of unprecedented mass displacement. The global financial crisis, the rise of populist leaders, and the growth of anti-EU parties, raises the need to interrogate the 'refugee', 'migrant', 'citizen', 'stateless', 'legal',...
Springer, 2019. — 680 p. This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights. Why do courts of general jurisdiction face particular problems in relation to the application of international human rights law and why, in other cases, are...
Brill, 2019. — 257 p. — (Theory and Practice of Public International Law). In Ius Doni in International Law and EU Law, Dr. Christian H. Kälin establishes the concept of ius doni as one of the latest trends of acquisition of citizenship by investment, quickly spreading among states.
Routledge, 2018. — 267 p. This book addresses the involuntary and arbitrary displacement of individuals resulting from armed conflict and gross human rights violations. It shows that forcible displacement constitutes a serious violation of international law and of fundamental community interests. Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement provides a critical legal analysis of the...
Ashgate, 2007. — 301 р. Presenting an analysis of the elimination of racial discrimination in international law, this book assesses the movement against racial discrimination, which has dominated human rights discourse since the UN's inception. It evaluates the strategies that have informed the work of the UN treaty-based and charter-based bodies in this area, and maps a new...
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Presenting an analysis of the elimination of racial discrimination in international law, this book assesses the movement against racial discrimination, which has dominated human rights discourse since the UN's inception. It evaluates the strategies that have informed the work of the UN treaty-based and charter-based bodies in this area,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 230 p. Writing in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the political theorist Hannah Arendt argued that the plight of stateless people in the inter-war period pointed to the existence of a 'right to have rights'. The right to have rights was the right to citizenship-to membership of a political community. Since then, and especially...
Eleven International Publishing, 2013. — 219 p. The State-centric international order is in flux and the role of the individual as an actor in international law is growing. Yet, in most international law regimes, States continue to interposition themselves between individuals and international law. Against the background of humanization, which is shown to permeate all...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. — 355 p. This incisive book provides an unparalleled insight into the ways in which international human rights law functions in a real world context across cultural, religious and geopolitical divides. Written by a professor, former ambassador and international judge, the book demonstrates how power, diplomacy, tactics and processes operate within...
Routledge, 2020. — 284 p. This book deeply analyses the emergence, development and application of the 'right to truth' as a response to an understanding of the needs of victims in two legal contexts: international human rights law and international criminal justice.
Routledge, 2020. — 207 p. This book analyses collective punishment in the context of human rights law. Collective punishment is a concept deriving from the law of armed conflict. It describes the punishment of a group for an act allegedly committed by one of its members and is prohibited in times of armed conflict. Although the imposition of collective punishment has been...
Routledge, 2017. — 208 p. This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners, look at the controversial "hot" topic of refugee rights. They consider whether, 50 years after its agreement, the Refugees' Convention can provide an adequate framework for protection. In particular,...
Routledge, 2020. — 307 p. The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) suffers from the burgeoning caseload and challenges to its authority. This two-pronged crisis undermines the ECtHR’s legitimacy and consequently the functioning of the whole European human rights regime. Domestic courts can serve as welcome allies of the Strasbourg Court. They have a potential to diffuse...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 605 p. In the decades following the globalization of the world economy, trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery have emerged as significant global problems. States negotiated the Palermo Protocol in 2000 under which they agreed to criminalize trafficking, primarily understood as an issue of serious organized crime. Sixteen years later,...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 237 p. The essays in this volume analyse feminism’s positioning vis-à-vis international law and the current paradigms of international law. The authors argue that, willingly or unwillingly, feminist perspectives on international law have come to be situated between ‘resistance’ and ‘compliance’. That is, feminist scholarship aims at deconstructing...
Routledge, 2016. — 228 p. This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. Despite democratisation, the exhumation of mass graves containing the victims from the violence in Cyprus (1963-1974) and the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) was delayed until the early 2000s, when both countries suddenly decided to...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic, 2014. — 282 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights). Trafficking in persons is a serious crime that affects the human rights, dignity and integrity of all its victims including women, men, and children in the Association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN) region. ASEAN has made efforts to fight human trafficking through inter...
Springer, 2023. — 237 p. This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind. However, this gender blindness has led to many injustices, the failure to recognize certain rights, and to impunity for serious crimes. The book examines the development of gender perspectives in various branches of international law, while...
Hart Publishing, 2011. — 280 p. International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (ie in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child’s habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country. The author of this work was part of a research team that conducted a study, partially funded by...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 507 p. Do States, through their military forces, have legal obligations under human rights treaties towards the local civilian population during UN-mandated peace operations? It is frequently claimed that it is unrealistic to require compliance with human rights treaties in peace operations, and this has led to an unwillingness to hold States...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–966782–6. Hersch Lauterpacht’s An International Bill of the Rights of Man was published in the spring of 1945, and is one of the transformative legal works of the twentieth century. It posited a new international legal order, adopting Winston Churchill’s commitment to ‘the enthronement of the rights of man’ and placing...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2006. — 174 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials). This work brings together a number of contributions analyzing some of the most pressing issues in the present world, and suggests ways and methods to manage these problems. Topics covered are the decision-making in the UN Security Council; the position of the United States vis-a-vis the United Nations; human rights and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 230 p. The margin of appreciation is a judicial doctrine whereby international courts allow states to have a measure of diversity in their interpretation of human rights treaty obligations. The doctrine is at the heart of some of the most important international human rights decisions. Does it undermine the universality of human rights? How...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2011. — 192 p. This book explores the philosophical, theoretical and legal bases that underpin the linkage between human rights and the environment. Such linkage, grounded in reality, is an innovative way of addressing environmental issues through the lens of a well-established international human rights system. The book argues that a new set of environmental...
Hart Publishing, 2005. — 455 p. International law has long been dominated by the State. But it has become apparent that this bias is unrealistic and untenable in the contemporary world as the rise of the notion of common goods challenges this dominance. These common goods - typically values (like human rights, rule of law, etc) or common domains (the environment, cultural...
Brill, 2014. — 295 p. — (Nijhoff Classics in International Law 3). The universal feeling that discrimination and intolerance based on race. religion or beliefs have to be confronted by the international community led to the adoption, half a century ago, of the international convention to which this book is devoted, one of the most ratified treaties. The book comments on the...
Routledge, 2012. — 224 p. This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR and international refugee law. This book charts the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 238 p. Human rights violations occurring as a consequence of drug control and enforcement are a growing concern, and raise questions of treaty interpretation and of the appropriate balancing of concomitant obligations within the drug control and human rights treaty regimes. Tracing the evolution of international drug control law since 1909,...
Springer, 2022. — 282 p. — (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 97). How we understand what procedure is due as a fundamental or constitutional right can have a critical impact on designing a civil procedure. Drawing on comparative law and empirically oriented methodologies, in this book the author provides a thorough analysis of how procedural due process...
Editoriale Scientifica, 2022. — 274 p. The best interests of the child is frequently, and with much justification, perceived as a very broad concept, and, to paraphrase Hilary Clinton, it is a concept in search of a definition. This timely and well-researched monograph on the concept of the best interests of the child, which underlines the rights and well-being of children,...
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty. This book analyses the relevant legal instruments for the provision of a protection status for persons fleeing to Europe from conflict and violence. It focuses on the...
Routledge, 2011. — 232 p. In a regional, national and global response to terrorism, the emphasis necessarily lies on preventing the next terrorist act. Yet, with prevention comes prediction: the need to identify and detain those considered likely to engage in a terrorist act in the future. The detention of 'suspected terrorists' is intended, therefore, to thwart a potential...
Brill, 2015. — 370 p. — (Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights). In Child-friendly Justice, world-leading experts on children's rights analyse how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has strengthened children's status in civil, administrative and criminal justice systems.
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 633 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84113-771-1. Drawing upon an Amnesty Law Database created by the author that contains information on over 500 amnesty laws introduced in all parts of the globe since the end of the Second World War, this book sets out to present a more nuanced account of the role of amnesties in political transitions. The book outlines and then...
Brill, 2017. — 592 p. Drawing upon his inspirational role, this book is a testament to the enduring contributions he has made to international law and international human rights law and policy by colleagues he has mentored, worked or collaborated with, or simply inspired.
Routledge, 2018. — 235 p. Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 1024 p. International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases and Analysis introduces law students to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including economic, social, and cultural rights. The textbook also discusses the...
Eleven International Publishing, 2014. — 432 p. This book examines the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons - known as the Kampala Convention - which entered into force on December 6, 2012. The book sets out the shortcomings of international law relating to internal displacement - more specifically, the 'protection gap.' The...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 269 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-15971-6. The United Nations estimates that 4 billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. This Open Access book is about community paralegals – sometimes called barefoot lawyers – who demystify law and...
Peter Lang, 2014. — 430 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2014, the fourth in the series, provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level. The 2014 Yearbook surveys the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 320 p. Jamie Mayerfeld defends international human rights law as an extension of domestic checks and balances and therefore necessary to constitutional government. The book combines theoretical reflections on democracy and constitutionalism with a case study of the contrasting human rights policies of Europe and the United States. Jamie...
Springer, 2018. — 293 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-90226-5 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-90227-2. This book is based on the observation that international law is undergoing a process of change and modernization, driven by many factors, among which the affirmation and consolidation of the role of the individual and of the theory of human rights stand out. In the contemporary world, international...
Springer, 2021. — 557 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-77031-0. This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues. It pursues an original approach, seeking to reconcile its didactic purpose with a scientific one, positing that there must be a necessary synergy between...
Springer, 2021. — 557 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-77031-0. This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues. It pursues an original approach, seeking to reconcile its didactic purpose with a scientific one, positing that there must be a necessary synergy between...
Hart Publishing, 2008. — 317 p. — (Studies in International Law, Volume 17). The international protection regime for refugees and other forced migrants seems increasingly at risk as measures designed to enhance security of borders, of people, of institutions, and of national identity encroach upon human rights. This timely edited collection responds to some of the contemporary...
Routledge, 2010. — 384 p. In noting that the actions of entities other than states in the economic arena can and often do have a profound effect on human rights, this book poses the question as to how international human rights law can and should address that situation. This book takes three very different categories of international actor – the World Trade Organization, the...
Routledge, 2021. — 105 p. Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have become important, although sometimes overlooked, actors in international human rights law. Although NGOs are not generally provided for in the hard law of treaties, they use the UN human rights system to hold Governments to account. A key way in which they do so is using State reporting mechanisms, initially...
Hart Publishing, 2022. — 255 p. This collection brings together a range of international contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time manifests in the theory and practice...
Routledge, 2017. — 202 p. The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011. The Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 and has currently been ratified by 22 states. This Convention constitutes a crucial...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 768 p. The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others the United Nations has established a wide range of mechanisms to monitor compliance, and to seek to prevent as well as respond to violations. The panoply of implementation...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2022. — 302 p. — (Routledge Research in International Law). This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By drawing on a range of diverse subject areas, it argues that the foundations of global governance, human rights and international law are undermined by a...
Hart Publishing, 2010. — 359 p. Domestic Violence and International Law argues that certain forms of domestic violence are a violation of international human rights law. The argument is based on the international law principle that, where a state fails to protect a vulnerable group of people from harm, whether perpetrated by the state or private actors, it has breached its...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 304 p. Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both international and domestic courts. Victims of aerial bombardment, inhabitants of territories under military occupation, deposed dictators, suspected terrorists...
Brill, 2017. — 484 p. — (International Refugee Law Series 7). This book aims to address 'boat migration' with a holistic approach. The different chapters consider the multiple facets of the phenomenon and the complex challenges they pose, bringing together knowledge from several disciplines and regions of the world within a single collection. Together, they provide an...
Ashgate, 2011. — 214 p. In the past thirty or so years, discussions of the status and rights of indigenous peoples have come to the forefront of the United Nations human rights agenda. During this period, indigenous peoples have emerged as legitimate subjects of international law with rights to exist as distinct peoples. At the same time, we have witnessed the establishment of...
Brill, 2014. — 262 p. — (Nijhoff Law Specials). In Unity in Connectivity? Evolving Human Rights Mechanisms in the ASEAN Region, Vitit Muntarbhorn discusses developments concerning the growth of human rights institutions and processes at the national and regional levels in Southeast Asia, and related legal challenges.
Routledge, 2013. — 325 p. This book examines the role and impact of EU, international human rights and refugee law on national laws and policies for integration and argues for a broad understanding of the relationship between integration and the law. It analyses the legal foundations of integration at the international and regional levels and examines the interaction of...
Routledge, 2009. — 186 p. The protection and promotion of human rights is an integral part of contemporary international peacekeeping operations. It is also a controversial aspect of peace operations at both an institutional and operational level. By bringing together a wide range of practitioners and academic scholars, this special issue addresses key contemporary legal,...
Routledge, 2020. — 604 p. Written to commemorate 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children's Rights reflects upon the status of children aged 0-8 years around the world, whether they are respected or neglected, and how we may move forward. With contributions from international experts...
Hart Publishing, 2000. — 339 p. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, established in 1987, was the third regional instrument, after the European and American systems, for the promotion and protection of human rights. This book, drawing on the jurisprudence and practice of the Commission, challenges the applicability of international law to the African situation....
Hart Publishing, 2007. — 118 p. National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number since the General Assembly adopted principles governing their effectiveness in 1993. The UN and others have encouraged states to set up such institutions as an indication of their commitment to human...
Routledge, 2019. — 216 p. This book offers a novel and contemporary examination of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) doctrine from an international legal perspective and analyses how the doctrine was applied within the Libyan and Syrian conflicts as two recent and highly significant R2P cases. The book dissects each of R2P’s three component pillars to examine their...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 379 p. — (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity).
"During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in the struggle against totalitarian regimes, cruelties in wars, and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The...
Hart Publishing, 2023. — 255 p. This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally. It looks at the fundamental questions for people's lives raised by the issue of access to justice as well as the rule of law. It highlights a range of social,...
University of Arizona Press, 2020. — 224 p. This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions....
Routledge, 2020. — 325 p. This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications. The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence against women and equality. The authors argue that the Convention with its emphasis on integrated and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 270 p. In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations of injustice and suffering to...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 335 p. This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure—which the editors have termed ‘access to asylum justice’. To address...
Routledge, 2020. — 365 p. This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender. It audits these against specific human rights requirements and evaluates the outcomes as evidenced in the legislation and caselaw of six leading common law jurisdictions. Beginning with a snapshot of the legal...
Hart Publishing, 2023. — 221 p. This book explores the narratives and experiences of people in the Global South as they encounter the impact of international law in their lives. It looks specifically at approaches to international migrations and the law, as states in the Global South confront migration-related challenges. Taking a case study approach, drawn from the experiences...
Springer, 2022. — 258 p. — ISBN-13 9789811682513. Гендерное неравенство в политике горнодобывающей промышленности Африки: исследование неравенства, конфликта ресурсов и устойчивости This book develops a discursive ‘equalitarian’ theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions. The theory of ‘equalitarianism’ is developed as an...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 250 p. Laws and norms that focus on women's lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the United Nations Security Council. While separate institutions, with differing powers of monitoring and enforcement, implement these laws and...
Routledge, 2018. — 305 p. This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy – notably postcolonial and feminist analyses. Beyond the push in the human rights field to ensure respect for the rights of people...
Peter Lang, 2012. — 319 p. The legal and political significance of human rights has increased enormously all over the world. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 provides a dynamic picture of laws, institutions, policies and case law that have implemented international human rights norms in Italy over the past few years, particularly in 2010. The volume has four main...
Peter Lang, 2013. — 385 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2012 confirms and consolidates the structure and aims already set forth in the 2011 edition. Year by year, this series examines the steps that Italy has made to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the...
Peter Lang, 2014. — 405 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2013, the third in the series, provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at an international level. The 2013 Yearbook surveys the...
Peter Lang, 2015. — 367 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2015 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level. The 2015 Yearbook surveys the activities of the relevant...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 290 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2016 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level. The 2016 Yearbook surveys the activities of the relevant...
Peter Lang, 2017. — 338 p. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2017 offers an up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level on the subject of fundamental rights. The 2017 Yearbook surveys the most...
Brill, 2009. — 305 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights 102). — ISSN: 0924-4751 ; ISBN: 978-90-04-176720. Set against previous stages of minority protection under international law, this book discusses the role of courts and court-like bodies - particularly in the Americas, Africa and Europe - in articulating and accommodating the interests and needs of ethno-cultural...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 644 p. A paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons. In numerous areas of public international law, substantive rights and obligations of individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel legal status of humans in international law is now captured...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 318 p. Despite the fact that there are up to 25 million internally displaced persons around the world, their plight is still little known. Like refugees, internally displaced persons have been forced to leave their homes because of armed conflict and human rights abuses, but they have not left their country. This has major consequences in terms...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 245 p. The book examines in detail the essence, nature and scope of artistic freedom as a human right. It explains the legal problems associated with the lack of a precise definition of the term 'art' and discusses the emergence of a distinct 'right' to artistic freedom under international law. Drawing on a variety of case-studies primarily...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 462 p. How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals in times of peace and of war? Rene Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences in the construction of each body of law, showing how they achieve a similar goal. By detailing the dynamics of human rights and humanitarian law, Provost reveals...
Routledge, 2019. — 670 p. The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a "new internationalism" in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of...
Routledge, 2016. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-78321-8 ; ISBN: 978-1-315-76718-5. Do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions affect human rights? Should fundamental rights constrain climate policies? Scientific evidence demonstrates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions contribute to increasing atmospheric temperatures, soon passing the compromising threshold of 2° C....
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 579 p. In today's globalised world, the relationship between human rights and investment is an important societal and legal issue. This Research Handbook unravels this complex interaction and sheds light on all of its dimensions; it takes stock of the impact that investment operations can have on human rights and it examines how international...
Brill, 2017. — 698 p. — (International Refugee Law Series 8). The International Legal Status and Protection of Environmentally-Displaced Persons: A European Perspective examines the applicability of refugee law and international human rights law in situations of environmentally-induced displacement, and explores possible future approaches to addressing the issue. In The...
London; New York: 1996. — 192 p. List of tables. Forewords. List of abbreviations. History: shared heritage, common struggle. Human rights in the world community. International obligation. Universality. Equality. Democracy. Development. International cooperation and dialogue. Protection. Justice, remedy, and reparation. Notes. Select bibliography.
Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. — 241 p. — (International Studies in Human Rights). The universal protection of human rights remains the core challenge of the United Nations if it is to achieve its mission of a world of peace, development and justice. Yet, at a time of seismic changes in the world, when shocking violations of human rights are taking place world-wide, the UN human rights...
Routledge, 2010. — 176 p. The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the...
Bloomsbury, 2013. — 362 p. Whilst Christian theology is familiar with questions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, little attention has been devoted to questions of international law. Esther Reed offers a systematic engagement with contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for modern theology. Reed discusses numerous issue driven...
Routledge, 2015. — 205 p. This book examines the strength of laws addressing four types of violence against women rape, marital rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment in 196 countries from 2007 to 2010. It analyzes why these laws exist in some places and not others, and why they are stronger or weaker in places where they do exist. The authors have compiled original...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 561 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–968597–4. This book was developed based upon an experts meeting organized at the Villa Moynier in Geneva on 10 and 11 February 2011. The initiative was part of the Swiss Human Rights Chair’s projects supported by the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and implemented by the Geneva Academy of International...
2nd Ed. — Routledge, 2004. — 372 p. — (Dictionary of Human Rights). — ISBN10: 185743207X, 13 978-1857432077. This reference work reflects the growing international concern over human rights. It provides explanations of the terminology, issues, organizations and laws surrounding this emotive subject. A Dictionary of Human Rights features: over 200 clear and concise mini-essays...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 455 p. Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson. As former President of Ireland, she was ideally positioned for passionately and eloquently arguing the case for human rights around the world. Over five tumultuous years that included the tragic events of 9/11, she offered moral leadership...
Hart Publishing, 2021. — 293 p. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the international law regime of jurisdictional immunities in employment matters. Three main arguments lie at its heart. Firstly, this study challenges the widely held belief that international immunity law requires staff disputes to be subject to blanket or quasi-absolute immunity from...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 629 p. With the worldwide sweep of gender-neutral, gender-equal or gender-sensitive public laws in international treaties, national constitutions and statutes, it is timely to document the raft of legal reform and to critically analyse its effectiveness. In demarcating the academic study of the public law of gender, this book brings together...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 321 p.
The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of...
Brookings Institution Press, 2023. — 410 p. Human rights — and the international institutions that strive to protect them — are under increasing attack from powerful actors on the global stage, from recent political trends even within established democracies and from new technologies. Together, these threats have undermined what had been a fragile international consensus as...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 282 p. Is there a basis for human rights in Islam? Beginning with an exploration of what rights are and how the human rights discourse developed, Abdullah Saeed explores the resources that exist within Islamic tradition in support of human rights. He identifies those that are compatible with international human rights law and can be garnered to...
Springer International Publishing, 2020. — 244 p. This book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentieth century. It provides a detailed account of how human rights were understood before they had legal relevance in a positivist sense, how they were adapted to Finnish legal thinking in the post-Second World War...
New York: Routledge, 2013. — 287 p. In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 have assumed that men suffer the most―both...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 432 p. Customary international law is one of the principal sources of public international law. Although its existence is uncontroversial, until now the content of customary international law in the area of human rights has not been analyzed in a comprehensive manner. This book, from one of international law's foremost scholars and...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1307 p. The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English. This book provides an entry point for every part of the Convention: the substance of the rights, the workings of the Court, and the enforcement of its judgments. A separate chapter is devoted...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 495 p. Prior to the twentieth century, international law was predominantly written by and for the 'civilised nations' of the white Global North. It justified doctrines of racial inequality and effectively drew a colour line that excluded citizens of the Global South and persons of African descent from participating in international law-making...
Manchester University Press, 2010. — 174 p. Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the...
Hart Publishing, 2006. — 438 p. This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of investors under investment...
Third Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 1124 p. International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its own: though part of international law, it borrows many of its...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 1033 p. — ISBN10: 1108463568 ; ISBN13: 978-1108463560. International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific controversies, its deeper structure and the general pattern of evolution. Moreover, it has a logic of its own: though part of international law, it...
Routledge, 2011. — 280 p. This book analyses the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and non-Western jurisdictions, the book sets out a topography of the different constitutional structures of religion within the state and their compliance with international human rights law. The book also considers the...
Ashgate Publishing, 2015. — 322 p. This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to the various levels of legal orders in Europe. The starting point is the divergent impact of the ECtHR's jurisdiction within the Convention States. The volume seeks new methods of orientation at the various legal levels, given the...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006. - 278 p. - ISBN: 90-04-15237-7 Religion plays a pivotal role in the way women are treated around the world, socially and legally. This book discusses three Islamic human rights approaches: secular, non-compatible, reconciliatory (compatible), and proposes a contextual interpretive approach. It is argued that the current gender discriminatory...
Routledge, 2013. — 809 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-62073-4. The Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides the definitive global survey of the discipline of international human rights law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a contemporary overview of a significant area within the field. As well as covering topics integral to the theory and...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 839 p. The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive and original overview of one of the fundamental topics within international law. It contains substantial new essays by over forty leading experts in the field, giving students, scholars, and practitioners a complete overview of the issues that inform research and...
Springer, 2019. — 522 p. This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decision-making. It addresses fundamental questions such as: should terror organizations be engaged in the human rights discussion? How can we counter extremist ideology? What is the role social media plays in...
Routledge, 2020. — 328 p. The development and adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was a huge success for the global indigenous movement. This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and challenges that indigenous peoples have faced in securing the implementation of this new instrument, as...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 218 p. What are the views, principles and regulations of the Islamic tradition concerning refugee status? Are there any similarities between the Islamic tradition relating to the laws of aman (safe conduct) and the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees? In this book, Arafat Shoukri delves into fifteen centuries of Arab and Islamic...
Routledge, 2014. — 332 p. This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place within the traditional paradigm of interrogation,...
Routledge, 2022. — 395 р. This volume elucidates and explores the interrelationships and direct causal connection between serious international crimes, serious breaches to fundamental human rights, and gross affronts to human dignity that lead to mass forced migration. Forced migration most often occurs in the context of protracted armed conflict of a non-international nature...
Springer, 2022. — 370 p. This book analyses gender-based offences on the Internet from the perspective of international human rights law, interwoven with rights theories and feminist legal theories. It investigates whether international human rights law is applicable in regulating harmful online conduct and speech, with a focus on sexual violence, various forms of harassment,...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 430 p. Increasingly, European states are using policy on the reception of asylum seekers as an instrument of immigration control, eg by deterring the lodging of asylum applications, preventing integration into their societies and exercising a large degree of control over asylum seekers in order to facilitate expulsion. The European Union is currently...
Routledge, 2021. — 101 p. This book inductively develops a new typology that identifies and evaluates three principal strategies that have been, and are being, used to extend international human rights protections to new categories of vulnerable populations. The book explicates the evolution and ongoing utility of the three strategies: categorical enlargement, conceptual...
4th ed. — Routledge, 2020. — 647 p. Texts and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject that covers sources and theories, institutions and structures, and substantive rights. The fourth edition is fully updated to include all key developments in the law, in particular issues around reform in the UN and the topical application of...
Hart Publishing, 2021. — 205 p. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the role of humanity in international law, offering a fresh perspective to a discussion with global implications. The 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed the sporadic emergence of a new vision of global law. Although the vision has taken many different forms,...
Routledge, 2005. — 208 p. This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications. With a detailed overview of the contemporary practice of universal jurisdiction, it discerns three trends at work: pure universal jurisdiction, universal jurisdiction "plus", and non-use. It...
Brill, 2007. — 352 p. — (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2). Drawing from a comprehensive review of legal instruments, practice, jurisprudence and literature, and using a multidisciplinary approach, this unique book brings forth the full spectrum of cultural rights, as individual and collective human rights, and offers a compelling vision for public policy. This book...
Routledge, 2017. — 304 p. The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. The scorecard of the UN human rights mechanisms appears impressive in terms of the promotion, spreading of education and...
Routledge, 2022. — 208 p. Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North. The work follows the author's remarkable journey from a simple...
2nd rev. ed. — Martinus Nijhoff, 2014. — 629 p. "Peoples and International Law" is the most comprehensive current account of the right of self-determination in international law. The book examines the law of self-determination as the product of the interaction between nationalism and international law. This broad and interdisciplinary work charts this interaction through...
Brill, 2014. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-24454-2 ; ISBN: 978-90-04-24455-9. The human rights enunciated in these two articles of the UDHR concern aspects of rights related to work. This part of international human rights law is often neglected in human rights textbooks and teaching, and indeed is often omitted from the work done by national human rights institutes and by...
The Preparatory Documents of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, and Its Development through Supervision. Volume 2: Human Rights and the Technical Articles. — Brill; Nijhoff, 2018. — 354 p. — (The Travaux Préparatoires of Multilateral Treaties 4). The International Labour Organization is responsible for the only two international Conventions for the protection of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 444 p. This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a conclusion with the publication of this volume. "Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement" takes an institutional approach to the international protection of human rights, examining first...
Eleven International Publishing, 2015. — 225 p. This book offers comprehensive coverage of all international legal aspects relating to the protection of Europe's biggest minority group, the Roma. It combines a practical approach with in-depth analysis, based on the most up-to-date international documents and more than 160 international and national cases. A unique comparison is...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 944 p. A new and an essential reference work for any international human rights law academic, student or practitioner, A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights spans all substantive rights of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), approached from the perspective of the ICCPR as an...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 438 p. The UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights obliges state parties to prohibit any advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination or violence. This book traces the origins of this provision and proposes an actus reus for this offence. The question of whether hateful incitement is a prohibition...
Hart Publishing, 2007. — 257 p. The concept of ‘human security’ has influenced discourse and practice and has been the subject of vigorous debate. Despite its relevance to central questions of international law, human security has until recently received little attention from international lawyers. This book has two related goals: to evaluate human security as a concept that...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014. — 455 p. This interdisciplinary study engages with the fields of human rights law, health law, and public health. It analyses how the internationally guaranteed human ‘right to health’ is realized by States at a national level. It brings together scholars from more than ten different countries, with each of them analyzing the right to health in their...
Springer, 2017. — 161 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-66097-4 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-66098-1. The present book was undertaken at the initiative of Professor Torroja in response to the growing concern of the international community over the threat posed by the criminal activities of mercenaries to peace and security in developing countries, particularly in conflict zones. It likewise aims to...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 328 p. Drawing on recent research in moral psychology and neuroscience, this book argues that universal moral beliefs and emotions shaped the evolution of the laws of war, and in particular laws that protect civilians. It argues that civilian protection norms are not just a figment of the modern West, but that these norms were embryonic in...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 265 p. This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law. It amounts, lato sensu, to the right to the realization of justice. In such understanding, it comprises not only the formal...
Springer, 2022. — 527 p. This book examines the ways in which law can be used to structure the return of indigenous sacred cultural heritage to indigenous communities, referred to as repatriation in this volume. In particular, it aims at developing legal structures that align repatriation with contemporary international human rights standards. To do so, it gathers the most...
3rd ed. — Geneva; Turin: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; International Centre of the ILO, 1998. — 152 p. (Автор не указан). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR). Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on...
New York; Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008. — 62 p. — Professional Training Series No. 15. (Автор не указан). This toolkit is designed to support efforts by United Nations-managed and supported mine action centres to advocate for the ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its...
Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1997. — 560 p.
(Автор не указан).
The main purpose of this Manual is to serve as a practical tool for government officials in the preparation and submission of reports required under the United Nations’ international human rights treaties.
The Manual places the reporting process within the frame work of...
New York; Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1999. — 188 p. — The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004). № 3.
(Автор не указан).
This series consists of handbooks and manuals intended to raise awareness of international standards. It is directed at audiences that are able to influence the human rights situation in...
Geneva: United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2001. — 156 с. (Автор не указан). Настоящий информационный материал составлен таким образом, чтобы предоставить коренным народам практическую информацию о деятельности и процедурах Организации Объединенных Наций (ООН) и ее различных учреждений, занимающихся правами человека и развитием. Хотя на протяжении...
United Nations, 1948. — 8 p. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a...
Springer, 2018. — 267 p. There is a great deal of attention for concepts such as conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect, which aim to prevent gross human rights violations. Despite this shift in attention towards prevention, it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human rights violations under international human rights law....
Springer, 2018. — 267 p. — ISBN: 978-94-6265-230-9 ; ISBN: 978-94-6265-231-6. There is a great deal of attention for concepts such as conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect, which aim to prevent gross human rights violations. Despite this shift in attention towards prevention, it has remained unclear what legal obligations states have to prevent gross human...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 511 p. Through an analysis of UN operations including international territorial administration, refugee camps, peacekeeping, the implementation of sanctions and the provision of humanitarian aid, Guglielmo Verdirame shows that the powers exercised by the UN carry a serious risk of human rights abuse. The International Law Commission has...
Routledge, 2021. — 259 p. The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women’s rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world’s leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and international law, it provides a primer of theory alongside...
Brill, 2008. — 78 p. This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 21 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides an article by article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and its two Optional...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 270 p. This monograph was originally developed as a direct response to the claim made by members of the ‘Employers Group’ at the 2012 International Labour Conference, namely that the right to strike is not protected in international law, and in particular by ILO Convention 87 on the right to freedom of association. The group’s apparent aim was to sow...
Hart Publishing, 2014. — 416 p. A recent development in the immigration policies of several European states is to make the admission of foreign nationals dependent upon criteria relating to their integration. As the practice of ‘integration testing abroad’ becomes more widespread, this book endeavours to clarify the legal implications which have hitherto remained poorly...
Hart Publishing, 2019. — 245 p. This monograph provides a contemporary analysis of the frictions between peacemaking and international human rights law based on the cases of postconflict power-sharing in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In this context it evaluates the long-standing debate in the United Nations and human rights bodies about the ‘imperfect peace’. Written from a...
Routledge, 2022. — 194 p. Human rights is an empowering framework for understanding and addressing justice issues at local, domestic, and international levels. This book combines US-based case studies with examples from other regions of the world to explore important human rights themes – the equality, universality, and interdependence of human rights, the idea of international...
Routledge, 2015. — 205 p. This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in Aboriginal people’s complex relationship with their ancestral lands. This is Raw Law: a natural system of...
Springer, 2015. — 246 p. Theoretical Approaches and Issues of Fragmentation and Constitutionalisation of International Law by Human Rights Law From Law as a Means to Law as an End: About the Influence of International Human Rights Law on the Structure of International Law Rules Audrey Soussan Jus Cogens and Human Rights: Interactions Between Two Factors of Harmonization of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 225 p. — (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law). This work explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts--political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural groups--in democratic States. International law recognizes that persons belonging to minorities have...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 241 p. — ISBN: 978– 0– 19– 874984– 4. International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law. Rather than make use of...
Brill, 2015. — 244 p. The Right of an Alien to be Protected against Arbitrary Expulsion in International Law provides an up-to-date analysis of the generally accepted principles of current international law relating to the protection of aliens against arbitrary expulsion.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 360 p. The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations fora, can be accommodated by current international law. By doing so, it also...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2016. — 434 p. This book addresses the interpretation and application of human rights norms by International Criminal Tribunals (ICTs). Such Tribunals are widely heralded as human rights defenders. At the same time, however, they employ activities that necessary entail the risk of human rights violations: they conduct criminal investigations, arrest and...
Routledge, 2022. — 225 p. This book provides a critical legal perspective on the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. The volume offers a critique of ideology of two legal approaches to the legitimacy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) that portray it as a supranational tribunal whose last say on human rights protection has a transformative effect...
The CEDAW Convention in Context. — London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — xvii + 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-31501-4 (Gender and Politics) This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. Rather than...
Routledge, 2015. — 220 p. This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community. The responses are examined on the basis of international law, in particular human rights...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 280 p. This book examines the right to conscientious objection in international human rights law. It begins with an exploration of the concept of conscience and its evolution. Ozgur Heval Cinar analyzes human rights law at both the international and regional level, considering UN, European, and inter-American mechanisms.
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 389 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются такие темы, как: система защиты прав человека и основных свобод ООН, основные международные договоры, учреждающие договорные органы по правам человека, система договорных органов по правам человека, Парижские принципы о статусе и деятельности национальных учреждений, занимающихся поощрением и защитой...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 420 с.
Учебное пособие составлено на основе программы дисциплины, осуществляемой в рамках магистерской программы "Международная защита прав человека". Материалы учебного пособия посвящены деятельности универсальных международных механизмов по защите прав и основных свобод человека. В доступной читателю форме излагаются основные аспекты...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 400 с.
В настоящем учебном пособии содержится материал о деятельности судебных учреждений, комиссий и специальных процедур, функционирующих в рамках региональных систем защиты прав человека Европы, Америки и Африки, а также международных механизмах и международно-правовых актах, созданных и принятых соответственно региональными,...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2011. - 224 с.
В учебном пособии анализируются нормативные основы, обеспечивающие правовой статус коренных народов в соответствии с внутригосударственным правом зарубежных стран различных регионов мира и Российской Федерации, а также в соответствии с международно-правовыми актами о правах человека. Рассматриваются полномочия правозащитных механизмов...
Учебник. - М.: РУДН, 2015. - 572 с. В настоящем издании изложены международные нормативные основы поощрения и защиты прав коренных народов и лиц, принадлежащих к национальным или этническим, религиозным и языковым меньшинствам. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "История становления и развития института международно-правовой защиты меньшинств", "Международно-правовые аспекты...
Курс лекций. - М.: РУДН, 2017. - 330 с. В настоящем издании представлен анализ поощрения и защиты прав коренных народов в соответствии с международным и национальным правом, особое внимание уделяется изучению деятельности международных органов, созданных на универсальной основе, прежде всего в системе ООН. Даётся подробный анализ обеспечения прав коренных народов на региональном...
Учебное пособие. - М.: Юнити-Дана, 2013. - 135 с.
Освещена деятельность универсальных международных механизмов по защите прав и основных свобод человека. Изложены основные аспекты функционирования договорных органов по правам человека.
Отражены последние новшества в универсальной правозащитной архитектуре, включая появление новых договорных органов по правам человека,...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2015. - 437 с. Настоящее издание посвящено деятельности десяти договорных органов по правам человека, которые отражают последние новшества в универсальной правозащитной системе. Книга поможет овладеть современными знаниями о функциях и полномочиях договорных органов по правам человека; приобрести умение анализировать существующие проблемы, отражающие...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2015. - 165 с. Настоящее издание нацелено на повышение у обучающихся осознания важности обеспечения экономических, социальных и культурных прав всех жителей на планете в условиях глобальных вызовов, а именно в ситуации, когда число лиц, находящихся за чертой бедности, в мире не уменьшается; государства всё больше обращаются к чрезвычайным мерам в...
СПб. : СПбГУП, 2015. — 28 с. — (Университетский мастер-класс ; Вып. 7) Мастер-класс главного научного сотрудника Института государства и права РАН, доктора юридических наук, профессора А.С. Автономова, проведенный в Санкт-Петербургском Гуманитарном университете профсоюзов 7 апреля 2015 года. Посвящен истории возникновения и становления прав человека как комплексного,...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 225 с. Учебное пособие разработано на основе программы дисциплины "Поощрение и защита прав уязвимых групп в международном праве", реализуемой в рамках магистерской программы "Международная защита прав человека". Учебное пособие включает анализ положений международных договоров и документов, направленных на обеспечение прав наиболее уязвимых...
СПб.: Изд-во «Моби Дик», 2006. — 208 с. — ISBN: 5-86983-096-6. В книге представлены переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по свободе выражения мнения и свободе информации. В данном издании каждое постановление сопровождается кратким неофициальным изложением дела, помогающим ориентироваться в прецедентном праве Европейского...
Воронеж, 2009.
Составители - Арапова Г. Ю., Кузеванова С. И.
В сборник вошли переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по ст. 10 Конвенции (свобода выражения мнения) против Молдовы. Подборка интересных с точки зрения контента и правовой позиции решений интересна правоприменителям России и стран СНГ в силу того, что многие схожие...
Воронеж, 2009
Составители - Арапова Г. Ю., Кузеванова С. И., Ледовских М. А.
В книге представлены переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по свободе выражения мнения и свободе информации. Все представленные в данной книге постановления относятся к делам, где государством-ответчиком была Российская Федерация. В данном издании...
Воронеж, 2010.
Составители - Арапова Г. Ю., Кузеванова С. И.
В седьмой по счету сборник вошли переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по статье 10 Конвенции (свобода выражения мнения). Среди них ряд прецедентных интересных российских дел, таких как Пасько против России и Кудешкина против России. В данном издании каждое...
Воронеж: ООО Фирма «Элист», 2012 — 284 с. — ISBN: 978-5-87172-049-3 Составители – Г. Ю. Арапова, С. И. Кузеванова В восьмой по счету сборник вошли переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по статье 10 Конвенции (свобода выражения мнения). В их числе четыре прецедентных российских дела. Для удобства изучения практики Европейского...
СПб.: Центр Защиты Прав СМИ, 2004. — 320 с. В книге представлены впервые переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по статье 10 Европейской Конвенции, гарантирующей свободу выражения мнения. В данном издании каждое постановление сопровождается кратким неофициальным изложением дела, помогающим ориентироваться в прецедентном праве...
СПб.: Центр Защиты Прав СМИ, 2004. — 288 с. В книге представлены переведенные на русский язык избранные постановления Европейского Суда по правам человека по статье 10 Европейской Конвенции, гарантирующей свободу выражения мнения. В данном издании каждое постановление сопровождается кратким неофициальным изложением дела, помогающим ориентироваться в прецедентном праве...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Петропавловск: СКГУ, 2007. – 56 с. ТОО «Издательство «Северный Казахстан».
Настоящее учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для студентов юридических ВУЗов и факультетов, магистрантов и аспирантов, целенаправленно занимающихся проблемами миграции в современном мире, работников миграционной полиции РК, социологов и политологов и всех,...
Підручник. — Харків : Планета-Принт, 2021. — 404 с. У підручнику розглядаються ключові питання прав людини в міжнародному праві, гарантії їх дотримання та захисту (міжнародно-правові підходи до розуміння прав людини, універсальна і регіональні системи міжнародного захисту прав людини, діяльність правозахисних міжнародних неурядових організацій, міжнародно-правове регулювання...
Екатеринбург, Изд-во Уральского университета, 2005 - 134 с. (Международная защита прав человека Вып.5) Данное издание продолжает серию книг "Международная защита прав человека". В нем рассматривается юридическая природа постановлений Европейского суда по правам человека, обязательства государств по их исполнению, практика исполнения постановлений Европейского суда по правам...
Перевод Василия Лукашевича. — Публикация Венгерского Хельсинкского Комитета, Будапешт, 2008. — 198 с. — ISBN: 978 963 87757 64 Настоящее издание представляет собой печатную версию ‘Хрестоматии по праву беженцев’, ‘живому’ онлайн сборнику прецедентов, документов, материалов. Хрестоматия является результатом совместного труда многих авторов, представляющим полностью разработанную...
Руководство. — БДИПЧ ОБСЕ, 2009. — 312 с. — ISBN: 978-92-9234-758-1. В настоящем руководстве содержится описание основных принципов прав человека, которые наиболее часто затрагиваются в процессе борьбы с терроризмом. Кроме того, в книге разъясняются обязательства государств в отношении этих прав в условиях противодействия терроризму. Контртеррористические стратегии,...
Монография. - М.: Международные отношения, 1986. - 160 c.
Введение
Международно-правовые проблемы гражданства
Способы приобретения гражданства
Двойное гражданство и правовые способы его устранения
Утрата гражданства
Проблемы безгражданства
Регламентация гражданства основными правовыми системами
Великобритания
Соединенные Штаты Америки
Германия до второй...
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр.
Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза.
Содержание:
Всеобщая декларация прав человека: достижение человечества.
Всеобщая декларация прав человека: развитие международных...
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр. Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза. Содержание: Конвенция: путь к равноправию. Конвенция: главные причины появления. Конвенция: структура, основные определения и положения....
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр. Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза. Содержание: Конвенция о правах ребенка: история. Зачем была нужна конвенция. Конвенция - уникальный документ. Принципы Конвенции....
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2009 г, 3 стр.
Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "Конвенция о правах ребенка: 20 лет в интересах детей".
Содержание:
Что такое "Конвенция о правах ребенка".
Как Конвенция защищает права ребенка?
Принципы Конвенции.
Какие меры должны предпринимать правительства...
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр. Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза. Содержание: Определение пытки. Методы пыток и их последствия. Международные стандарты: запрет пыток. Конвенция против пыток: структура и...
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр.
Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза.
Содержание:
Международная теория прав человека: краткая история.
На пути к современной системе защиты прав человека: международный...
ИГОО "ЦСОИ", 2001 г, 2 стр.
Издание подготовлено Ижевской городской организацией "Центр социальных и образовательных инициатив" в рамках проекта "От правового просвещения к обеспечению прав ребенка" при финансовой поддержке Европейского Союза.
Содержание:
Международная теория прав человека: краткая история.
На пути к современной системе защиты прав человека: международный...
Учебное пособие. - Волгоград: ВФ РАНХиГС, 2021. - 380 с. В настоящем издании изложены современные подходы к концепции прав ребёнка в российской правовой системе; проанализированы международные стандарты в области защиты прав ребёнка, а также законодательство России в этой области в дореволюционный, советский и постсоветский периоды. Авторы акцентируют внимание на защите прав...
Учебник / А.Х. Абашидзе, З.Г. Алиев, К.Ф. Амиров и др.; под ред. Р.М. Валеева. М.: Статут, 2011. - 830 с.
Введение в теорию и историю прав человека
Предмет, метод и значение дисциплины о правах человека
Предмет, метод и система курса права прав человека
Права человека как социально-политическая и правовая ценность
Права человека в истории политико-правовой мысли
Идеи прав...
Учебник. - М.: Статут, 2011. - 830 с. В настоящем издании подробно анализируются общие вопросы теории прав человека: история её развития, сущность, назначение и система прав человека, его правовой статус. Особое место занимает характеристика международно-правовых норм в области прав человека: освещаются как универсальные международные акты о правах человека, принятые в рамках ООН,...
Монография. — М.: Мир науки, 2022. — 98 с. — ISBN 978-5-907603-41-7. Монография представляет собой впервые разработанную в отечественной науке международного права на основании анализа международно-правовых актов универсального, регионального уровней, зарубежного и внутригосударственного законодательства авторскую концепцию международно-правовой защиты региональных языков и...
Пособия по правам человека Совета Европы. Совет Европы. Страсбург, 2012. — Воронеж: Фирма «Элист», 2014. — 211 с. — ISBN: 978-5-87172-068-4. Настоящее пособие подготовлено Советом Европы с целью всесторонне рассмотреть применение Статьи 6 Европейской конвенции о защите прав человека и предоставить практикующим юристам стран-членов Совета Европы рабочий инструмент, облегчающий...
Московский центр гендерных исследований (Мцги), 19 стр.
Содержание.
Введение.
Разработка международно-правовых документов по правам женщин.
Европейский союз.
Комплексный подход к гендерному равенству (gender mainstreaming).
Примечания.
Монография. — Владивосток: Издательство Дальневосточного университета, 1998. — 156 с. — ISBN 5-7444-0882-7.
В монографии рассматриваются вопросы содержания и основных этапов осуществления органами и организациями системы ООН нормотворческой и правоприменительной деятельности в области прав человека, анализируются возможные пути и средства ее дальнейшего совершенствования.
Для...
Монография. - Казань: ЦИТ, 2012. - 256 с.
В монографии исследуются проблемы международно-правовой защиты прав и основных свобод коренных народов. Анализируются международные акты в данной сфере, рассматривается деятельность различных международных организаций и их роль в сохранении аборигенов. Освещается динамика становления и развития международных стандартов в данной области,...
Монография. - Казань: КФУ, 2010. - 252 с. В настоящем издании исследуются вопросы международно-правового регулирования прав коренных народов, а также проблемы защиты прав Североамериканских индейцев и коренных малочисленных народов Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока России. Анализируется внутригосударственное нормативно-правовое регулирование отношений, возникающих в связи с...
Научно-практическое пособие. — М.: Центр социально-трудовых прав; СПб.: Лема, 2012. — 148 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98709-446-4. В книге рассмотрены международные механизмы, которые могут использоваться для защиты трудовых прав и прав в области свободы объединения. Это механизмы, имеющие наибольше практическое значение для защиты индивидуальных или коллективных прав в этой сфере:...
Учебное пособие (для соискателей высшего образования дневной формы обучения). — Москва: МГУ, 2020. — 21 с. Учебное пособие содержит основные темы курса международного права прав человека. Рассчитан на студентов, юридических факультетов и институтов, а также всех, кто интересуется международным правом прав человека.
Учебное пособие. — Краснодар : Кубанский государственный аграрный университет имени И. Т. Трубилина, 2020. — 157 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907294-84-9. Учебное пособие посвящено исследованию прав человека в международном и российском праве. Сохранение российской государственности, ее независимости и территориальной целостности от притязаний иностранных государств и международных...
Учебное пособие. — Москва: РУДН, 2017. — 509 с. Курс «Международно-правовая защита трудовых прав человека» представляет собой введение в теоретические и практические проблемы международного права прав человека и международного трудового права в их взаимодействии. Международно-правовая защита трудовых прав человека является учебной дисциплиной международно-правовой...
Монография. — Казань: Изд-во Казанского университета, 2015. — 176 с. Одной из тенденций современного международного права является сочетание стремления международного сообщества к универсализации, с одной стороны, и движение к регионализации, с другой. Эта тенденция нашла свое отражение и в области международно-правового регулирования труда: помимо Международной организации...
Учебное пособие. - Рязань: ИД "Коняхин А.В.", 2016. - 112 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются проблемы и международная практика системы защиты прав человека и механизм международного контроля, понятие, виды и формы международного контроля за обеспечением прав человека в уголовно-исполнительной системе, международные правовые стандарты контроля и инспектирования пенитенциарных...
Международный документ. — В электронном издании «Библиотека Кирилла и Мефодия», 2008 — 13 с.
«Декларация прав ребенка» провозглашена резолюцией 1386 (XIV) Генеральной Ассамблеи от 20.11.1959.
Международный документ. — В электронном издании «Библиотека Кирилла и Мефодия», 2008 — 13 с. 300dpi, OCR+, Outline+
«Декларация прав ребенка» провозглашена резолюцией 1386 (XIV) Генеральной Ассамблеи от 20.11.1959.
Сборник статей и документов. — Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2001. — 200 с. (Международная защита прав человека. Выпуск 1). Данная книга открывает серию «Международная защита прав человека». В ней рассматриваются процессуальные вопросы обращения в Европейский суд, критерии приемлемости жалобы, порядок рассмотрения дела в Европейском суде, вопросы...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Бишкек: КРСУ, 2015. — 146 с. Учебно-методическое пособие состоит из программы и тезисов лекций по дисциплине «Международная защита прав человека», методических указаний, рекомендаций и контрольных материалов по подготовке к учебным занятиям, самостоятельной работе, по ознакомлению с международно-правовыми источниками для успешного освоения...
Воронеж: Артефакт, 2009. — 328 с. — ISBN 978-5-93737-051-8.
Первое издание, собравшее под одной обложкой 12 полных переводов и краткие изложения основных постановлений Европейского Суда по правам человека по ст.11 Европейской Конвенции, затрагивающих вопросы реализации права на свободу мирных собраний.
Учебное пособие. - Тамбов: ТГТУ, 2017. - 114 с. Настоящее издание затрагивает весьма актуальные вопросы, связанные с защитой прав человека на международном уровне. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Правовые и организационные основы международной защиты прав человека", "Международная система защиты прав беженцев", "Защита прав национальных меньшинств", "Задачи консульских...
Монография. — М.: Норма: Инфра-М, 2011. — 288 с. Монография посвящена процессам в международной защите прав человека, которые происходят в условиях глобализации, существенно корректирующей взаимоотношения государств в этой сфере. В ней раскрываются изменения принципов и норм международного права под воздействием глобализации, роль главных, вспомогательных и конвенционных...
М.: Издательская группа НОРМА-Инфра-М, 1999. - 784 с. Для специалистов, студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей юридических вузов и факультетов, работников государственных учреждений, правоохранительных органов и широкого круга читателей, интересующихся вопросами международного права и деятельности международных учреждений. Содержание Вступительная статья Становление принципа...
Учебник. — М.: Российский университет дружбы народов, 2016. — 343 с. — ISBN: 978-5-209-07769-5. На протяжении XX века и в наши дни, в контексте многочисленных кризисов, наблюдаются международные правонарушения, масштабы и число которых бросают вызов современному международному правопорядку. В этой связи перед международным сообществом стоит задача усилить приверженность...
Прецеденты и комментарии (учебно-методическое пособие). Москва, Российская академия правосудия, 2001. ISBN: 5-93916-004-2. Пособие, подготовленное для российских судей, призвано ознакомить с практикой Европейского Суда по правам человека по применению статьи 8 Европейской Конвенции, закрепляющей право гражданина на уважение личной и семейной жизни, жилища и корреспонденции....
Учебное пособие. — М.: Статут, 2013. — 591 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8354-0932-7.
В учебном пособии рассматривается эволюция представлений о правах человека, вопросы формирования и развития общей концепции прав человека и гражданина. Проанализированы такие исторически значимые документы, как Великая хартия вольностей 1215 г., Habeas Corpus Amendment Act 1679 г., Всеобщая декларация прав...
Для цілей цієї Конвенції поняття "дискримінація щодо жінок" означає будь-яке розрізнення, виняток або обмеження за ознакою статі, спрямовані на ослаблення чи зведення нанівець визнання, користування або здійснення жінками, незалежно від їхнього сімейного стану, на основі рівноправності чоловіків і жінок, прав людини та основних свобод у політичній, економічній, соціальній,...
Учебное пособие. - Новокузнецк: КИ ФСИН России, 2013. - 45 с. В настоящем издании в обобщённом виде на основе анализа международных и отечественных правовых актов и правоприменительной деятельности представлен материал, отражающий вопросы международной защиты прав осуждённых. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Закономерности развития и общая характеристика международного...
Париж: Editions de la Seine, 1975. — 375 с. На языке двадцатого столетия термин «права человека» соответствует традиционному понятию «естественные права». О правах человека сказано много, но суть их до сих пор остается неясной. Говоря, что права человека —это права моральные, мы не отрицаем, что для многих людей они являются в то же время и позитивными. Там, где права...
Учебное пособие. — Нижний Новгород: Изд-во ННГУ им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 2005. — 159 с. Настоящее пособие посвящено рассмотрению основных вопросов теории прав человека (историческое развитие, понятие, принципы, классификация, источники) и практических международных механизмов обеспечения прав и свобод. В пособии дается характеристика основных международных актов в сфере прав...
Учебное пособие. - Казань: КФУ, 2017. - 160 с. Настоящее издание представляет собой попытку изложить основы обеспечения прав коренных малочисленных народов России, провести параллели с аналогичным законодательством Канады. Не претендуя на полноценный охват существующих проблем правового регулирования прав малочисленных народов, авторы ставили своей задачей показать некоторые...
Учебное пособие. — Казань: КФУ, 2017. — 160 с. Настоящее издание представляет собой попытку изложить основы обеспечения прав коренных малочисленных народов России, провести параллели с аналогичным законодательством Канады. Не претендуя на полноценный охват существующих проблем правового регулирования прав малочисленных народов, авторы ставили своей задачей показать некоторые...
Учебное пособие. — Казань: КФУ, 2017. — 160 с. Настоящее издание представляет собой попытку изложить основы обеспечения прав коренных малочисленных народов России, провести параллели с аналогичным законодательством Канады. Не претендуя на полноценный охват существующих проблем правового регулирования прав малочисленных народов, авторы ставили своей задачей показать некоторые...
Учебное пособие. — Тамбов: Тамбовский государственный технический университет, 2020. — 80 с. — ISBN 978-5-8265-2215-8. Включает теоретические положения, касающиеся различных аспектов будущей профессиональной деятельности обучающихся и позволяющие им в дальнейшем решать сложные комплексные задачи в обеспечении прав человека в досудебном производстве. Проведён обстоятельный...
Ташкент: Адолат, 1998. — 626 с. Обеспечение прав и свобод человека — важнейшее условие стабильности и спокойствия в обществе, признак верно избранного пути к созданию демократического правового государства. Ознакомить читателя с 37 международными договорами, касающимися защиты прав человека, к которым присоединилась Республика Узбекистан — основная цель издания настоящего...
Монографію присвячено дослідженню процесу формування в межах міжнародного права у сфері захисту прав людини та основних свобод окремого нормативного комплексу із забезпечення та захисту прав національних меншин та осіб, які до них належать. Проаналізовано проблеми визначення понять "національна меншина" та "корінні народи" в сучасному міжнародному праві. Розглянуто процес...
Підручник. — К.: Феникс, 2010. — 722 с. Підручник висвітлює основи теорії і практики міжнародного права прав людини, як сучасної галузі міжнародного права і міжнародного захисту прав людини, як процедур здійснення цього захисту. Розглядаються загальнотеоретичні питання формування концепції прав людини, особливості становлення ідеї прав людини в історії українського народу, поняття...
Под редакцией профессора Г. И. Тункина. — Москва: Государственное издательство юридической литературы, 1958. — 174 с. Монография посвящена анализу проблемы международной защиты прав человека, борьбе Советского государства за соблюдение этих прав. В ней рассматриваются статьи Устава ООН о правах человека, история разработки Комиссией по правам человека проектов Всеобщей...
Москва: Наука, 1982. — 145 с. В книге раскрывается значение и содержание проблемы международной защиты прав человека в условиях острой идеологической борьбы двух систем - социализма и капитализма, а также сотрудничество в этой области государств с различным социальным строем. Автор — член Комитета по правам человека, действующего на основе Международного Пакта о гражданских и...
Москва: Наука, 1982. — 145 с. В книге раскрывается значение и содержание проблемы международной защиты прав человека в условиях острой идеологической борьбы двух систем - социализма и капитализма, а также сотрудничество в этой области государств с различным социальным строем. Автор — член Комитета по правам человека, действующего на основе Международного Пакта о гражданских и...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 150 с. В книге раскрывается значение и содержание проблемы международной защиты прав человека в условиях острой идеологической борьбы двух систем — социализма и капитализма, а также сотрудничество в этой области государств с различным социальным строем. Автор — член Комитета по правам человека, действующего на основе Международного Пакта о гражданских и...
Прецеденты и комментарии (учебно-методическое пособие). Москва, Российская академия правосудия, 2002.
Содержание.
Введение.
Содержание права на доступ к правосудию и справедливое судебное разбирательство (ст. 6 Конвенции).
"Гражданское право и обязанность".
Права и обязанности, не рассматриваемые в качестве гражданских.
Толкование понятия "уголовное обвинение".
"Право на...
Учебное пособие. - М.: МИИТ, 2021. - 162 с. В настоящем издании рассмотрены основные понятия и институты международного права прав человека, в том числе: понятие, предмет, источники и принципы. Освещаются механизмы в сфере защиты прав и свобод человека в системе ООН в рамках договорных органов по правам человека, а также в рамках региональной системы защиты прав человека....
Учебно-практическое пособие. — М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2015. — 130 с.
Транснациональные корпорации являются самыми могущественными из всех негосударственных субъектов. Экономическая мощь ТНК зачастую превосходит возможности отдельных государств, при этом деятельность корпораций никак не регламентирована международным правом.
Сегодня имеют место случаи нарушения корпорациями...
Учебно-практическое пособие. — М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2015. — 130 с.
Транснациональные корпорации являются самыми могущественными из всех негосударственных субъектов. Экономическая мощь ТНК зачастую превосходит возможности отдельных государств, при этом деятельность корпораций никак не регламентирована международным правом.
Сегодня имеют место случаи нарушения корпорациями...
Учебное пособие. - Тюмень: ТГУ, 2012. - 88 с.
Рассматриваются основные вопросы прав человека в современных международных отношениях: защита прав человека в вооружённых конфликтах, защита прав национальных меньшинств, основные аспекты международной защиты прав женщин и детей, особенности регионального сотрудничества по правам человека. После каждого параграфа предлагаются...
Женева, 2007.
Содержание.
Введение.
Конвенция о правах инвалидов.
Факультативный протокол к Конвенции о правах инвалидов.
Международная конвенция для защиты всех лиц от насильственных исчезновений.
Конспект лекций. - Казань: К(П)ФУ, 2013. - 19 с.
Предлагаемые лекции рассчитаны для студентов юридического факультета, основной целью которого является изучение проблем правового статуса отдельных категорий населения: женщин, детей, беженцев и вынужденных переселенцев, трудящихся-мигрантов, умственно-отсталых лиц и инвалидов.
Изучение правового положения отдельных категорий...
Сборник документов в хронологическом порядке. — ОБСЕ/БДИПЧ, 2006. — 380 с. Заключительный акт Совещания по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе. Хельсинки 1975 г. Итоговый документ мадридской встречи 1980 г. (Вторая Встреча в рамках дальнейших шагов) Мадрид 1983 г. Документ стокгольмской конференции по мерам укрепления доверия и безопасности и разоружению в Европе Стокгольм...
Нью-Йорк; Женева: Организация Объединенных Наций, 1999. — 55 с. (Автор не указан). В декабре 1994 года Генеральная Ассамблея провозгласила Десятилетие образования в области прав человека Организации Объединенных Наций, охватывающее период с 1 января 1995 года по 31 декабря 2004 года. Согласно соответствующим положениям международных договоров о правах человека и исходя из целей...
Женева: Организация Объединенных Наций; Центр по правам человека. — 71 с. — Серия публикаций по вопросам профессиональной подготовки, № 2. (Автор и год издания не указаны). Центр Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека имеет честь представить настоящее пособие по правам человека и выборам в качестве своей второй серии публикаций по профессиональной подготовке. Эта...
Нью-Йорк; Женева: Организация Объединенных Наций; Центр по правам человека, 1994. — 95 с. — Серия исследований по вопросам профессиональной подготовки, № 3. (Автор не указан). Повсюду в мире происходят аресты и задержания граждан по подозрению в совершении ими уголовного преступления. Нередко этих лиц держат под стражей неделями, месяцами, а то и годами, прежде чем суд вынесет...
Нью-Йорк; Женева: Организация Объединенных Наций; Управление Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, 2004. — 245 с. — Серия материалов по вопросам профессиональной подготовки, № 11 . Добавление 1 (Автор не указан). Настоящее пособие является одним из компонентов состоящего из четырех частей издания "Права человека и тюремные учреждения", которое...
Минск, "Тесей", 2006 ISBN: 985-463-222-9. Настоящее пособие является первым подобным изданием в Республике Беларусь. В нем освещается процесс становления и развития института прав беженцев в международном праве, его источники, принципы, рассматривается понятие «беженец», анализируются международные конвенции, касающиеся статуса беженца, механизм защиты прав беженцев в рамках...
21 с.
Принята и открыта для подписания, ратификации и присоединения резолюцией 44/25 Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН от 20 ноября 1989 г. Вступила в силу 2 сентября 1990 г. По состоянию на 1 апреля 1992 г. - 115 участников. Ратифицирована Верховным Советом СССР 13 июля 1990 г. Вступила в силу для СССР 15 сентября 1990 г.
Учебное пособие. - Томск: ТИПКР ФСИН России, 2015. - 110 с.
В настоящем издании освещается внутригосударственный и международный механизм защиты прав человека в России. Автор стремился в доступной форме изложить основные правовые проблемы, существующие в международной и национальной сфере по защите прав человека и гражданина. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Система...
Монография. - Воронеж: Научная книга, 2009. - 146 с.
Данная монография посвящена исследованию истории развития международного правозащитного движения. Автор показывает генезис и основные этапы развития международного правозащитного движения, раскрывает его реальное влияние на характер мировых политических процессов, приводит сравнительные характеристики деятельности крупнейших...
Автор невідомий. — Брюсель: Європейський Суд з прав людини, 2012. — 43 с.
Цей посібник був підготовлений Дослідницьким підрозділом Європейського Суду з прав людини і ні до чого не зобов’язує Суд.
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека. Изложение фактов № 15 (Rev.1) Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева. Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые...
Управление Верховного Комиссара ООН по правам человека.
Изложение фактов № 7 (Rev.1). Отпечатано в Организации Объединенных Наций, Женева.
Серия Права человека: изложение фактов издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, Отделение Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней освещаются отдельные вопросы прав человека, которые...
Нью-Йорк; Женева: Организация Объединённых Наций, 2012. — 64 с. Данный программный документ декларирует права секс-меньшинств в области публичного права.
М.: Статут, 2014. - 319 с.
Субъекты и объекты права на защиту собственности
Субъекты права на защиту собственности
Объект защиты: концепция "имущества"
Содержание права на защиту: три правила статьи 1 Протокола N 1
Лишение имущества
Контроль за использованием собственности
Общее право на уважение собственности
Условия правомерности вмешательства в право собственности...
Учебное пособие. - Новокузнецк: КИ ФСИН России, 2014. - 80 с. В учебном пособии рассмотрены вопросы деятельности структурных подразделений Организации Объединённых Наций и договорных конвенционных органов в сфере защиты прав человека. Предназначено для студентов и преподавателей юридических вузов.
Астана. 2010 с.
104. сборник решений Комитета ООН по правам человека на самую актуальную и злободневную тему – свобода слова и самовыражения. Данное право закреплено в Международном пакте о гражданских и политических правах статьей № 19.
Учебное пособие. - М.: Покров ПРО, 2015. - 260 с. В настоящем издании излагаются основные понятия, относящиеся к праву на здоровье, приведены основные международно-правовые акты, закрепляющие право на здоровье, отражена роль международных организаций, прежде всего Всемирной организации здравоохранения, в содействии реализации права на здоровье, а также представлены различные виды...
Монография. - М.: Покров Про, 2015. - 196 с. Настоящее издание посвящено комплексному анализу международно-правового регулирования права на здоровье, одним из обязательных компонентов которого выступает духовно-нравственное воспитание. Представлены такие вопросы, как: "Роль духовно-нравственного воспитания в становлении права на здоровье", "Международно-правовое сотрудничество...
Навчальний посібник (для здобувачів вищої освіти денної форми навчання). — Харків: НЮУ, 2019. — 20 с. Навчальний посібник містить основні теми курсу міжнародного права прав людини. Розрахований на студентів юридичних факультетів та інститутів, а також всіх, хто цікавиться міжнародним правом прав людини.
Издание Управление Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека, 2005, 83 с.
Серия "Права человека: изложение фактов" издается Управлением Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по правам человека Отделения Организации Объединенных Наций в Женеве. В ней отражаются некоторые проблемы прав человека, которые находятся под пристальным вниманием...
пер. с англ. - Минск: Юнипак, 2013, 424 с. Эта книга является переводом на русский язык пятого издания авторитетного учебника, используемого в университетах по всему миру. В нем рассматриваются история прав человека, основные международные документы и прецедентное право международных контролирующих органов, а так же деятельность международных организаций (ООН, Совет Европы,...
Содержание. История развития охраны прав меньшинств в международном праве Индивидуальные и коллективные права в контексте проблемы меньшинств Право на самоопределение в документах международных организаций Автономия как форма самоопределения Библиография Глоссарий.
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2012. - 388 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются процесс становления и развития системы защиты экологических прав человека на национальном уровне и международно-правовые и организационные основы поощрения и защиты экологических прав человека в рамках системы ООН и региональных международных организаций (Совет Европы, Африканский Союз, Организация...
Учебное пособие. - М.: РУДН, 2015. - 468 с. В настоящем издании рассматриваются процесс становления и развития системы защиты экологических прав человека на национальном уровне и международно-правовые основы поощрения и защиты экологических прав человека в рамках системы ООН и региональных международных организаций (Совет Европы, Африканский союз, Организация американских...
Опорный конспект лекций. Минск, 2010. - 7 с.
Автор: кандидат ю.н., доцент кафедры межд.права фак-та межд. отношений БГУ
Понятие, эволюция и принципы международной защиты прав ребенка
Правовая база международной защиты прав ребенка
Механизм международного контроля за соблюдением прав ребенка
Имплементация международных стандартов в области прав ребенка в правовую систему...
Статус Конвенции о ликвидации всех форм дискриминации в отношении женщин (Нью-Йорк, 18 декабря 1979 года)(1) (по состоянию на 15 мая 2009 года) Вступление в силу: 03.09.1981
Монография. М.: Международный издательский центр «Этносоциум», 2015. - 428 с.
Зарождение и развитие международного права и формирование вектора защиты прав
Соотношение права и витальных ресурсов в становлении международных систем
Правовые реалии и правовые символы в международной практике
Конституционная защита прав и свобод личности
Референдарная форма выражения и защиты...
М.: Издательская группа НОРМА—ИНФРА, 1999. — 328 с. Введение Условные сокращения Международно-правовое регулирование прав и свобод человека Правовое закрепление сотрудничества государств в сфере прав и свобод человека и гражданина Права человека в историческом аспекте Права человека и Устав ООН Всеобщая декларация прав человека 1948 г. Международные договоры о правах человека...
М.:Норма, 2002 г. Структурно книга построена как комментарий к статьям к Конвенции о защите прав человека. По содержанию, однако, содержит не авторские мнения и оценки, а во-первых, правовые позиции Суда, выработанные им в процессе применения и толкования соответствующей статьи, и во-вторых, сопоставление решений вопросов, возникших в практике Суда, с российским законодательством...
Монография. — Вильнюс: ЕГУ, 2013. — 402 с. — ISBN: 978-9955-773-65-8. Политические изменения на карте Европы открыли возможности международно-правовой защиты прав человека для населения стран бывшего Советского Союза. Время показало, однако, что международное право с его нормами и институтами не может быть эффективно без опоры на национальные правовые системы. В монографии...
Держава-учасниця цього Протоколу ("Держава-учасниця") визнає компетенцію Комітету з ліквідації дискримінації щодо жінок ("Комітету") приймати і розглядати повідомлення, що подаються відповідно до статті
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Учебное пособие. - М.: РПА, 2015. - 127 с. В настоящем издании представлено общее понятие прав и свобод личности, дана их классификация. Рассмотрены международные и национальные способы защиты прав и свобод личности. Рассматриваются такие темы, как: "Общее понятие прав и свобод личности", "Классификация прав и свобод человека и гражданина: понятие, основания", "Международное...
Учебное пособие. — Центр по правам человека Университета Миннесоты, 2003. — 14 с. Содержание: Введение. Часто употребляемые термины в контексте прав человека коренных народов. Права под угрозой. Международные инструменты защиты. Органы ООН по защите прав коренных народов. Ресурсы.
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1986. – 232 с. В настоящий сборник включены основные международные документы, регулирующие сотрудничество государств в области прав человека. Сборник предназначен для научных сотрудников, преподавателей, аспирантов и студентов, занимающихся вопросами международного права и международных отношений, а также для широкого круга читателей,...
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