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Human Rights Or Global Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Human Rights Or Global Capitalism

Human Rights or Global Capitalism examines the application of neoliberal policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by outsourcing to the private sector many services with a direct impact on human rights, abdicate their responsibilities to uphold human rights and violate international law.

Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Introduction to the International Human Rights Regime

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Human rights are the only universally recognized system of contemporary values which, during the last 50 years, has been gradually developed and defined by all States in a comprehensive international legal framework. The international human rights regime is closely related to international peace and security, development and a global trend towards pluralist democracy, good governance and the rule of law. International humanitarian and criminal law can today be considered as specific aspects of international human rights law, which after the end of the Cold War has become increasingly complex and difficult to oversee. The present textbook attempts to provide a first and at the same time compr...

Torture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Torture

In Torture, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak recounts his experience visiting countries, reviewing documents, collecting evidence, and conducting interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of torture. His story offers vital insights for human-rights scholars and professionals.

A World Court of Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

A World Court of Human Rights

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism

  • Categories: Law

While providing a substantive legal analysis of the links between human rights and counter-terrorism, this book provides the tools to successfully argue that a human rights approach does not undermine the fight against terrorism. Through practical examples, it shows that a State’s lack of respect for human rights hinders its fight against terrorism and can be counter-productive. The contributing experts represent a wide breadth of experience at the national and international levels, and bring their unique approach to each cross-cutting topic.

The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1361

The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Its Optional Protocol

  • Categories: Law

"Published with the support of Austrian Science Fund (FWF): PUB 644-G."

The United Nations Convention Against Torture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1649

The United Nations Convention Against Torture

  • Categories: Law

This volume provides a thorough commentary on the articles of the Convention against Torture, with historical context and analysis of relevant case law from monitoring bodie and international, regional and domestic courts.

U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 947

U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Art. 6 Right to life

The European Union and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 729

The European Union and Human Rights

  • Categories: Law

EU commitment to human rights policies has grown following the Lisbon Treaty. Taking stock of those developments, this book describes the framework, actors, policies, and strategies of human rights across the EU and how their impact is felt. Contributed to by scholars from across the EU, this provides an in-depth and holistic view of the issues.

The Procedures Before the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

The Procedures Before the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

"The first ideas ... originated from a conference held in Utrecht on ... the 35th anniversary of the two 1966 Covenants, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."--Foreword.