description: Human rights occupy a key place in international law and relations. Understanding their significance involves knowing what the current guarantees of human rights are, and how the arrangements for protecting them work. This text offers a broad survey outlining the main human rights instruments and describing how they are implemented in the United Nations, through regional institutions, in specialized agencies and elsewhere. It covers many recent developments and shows that, despite important limitations, human rights law has significant achievements and even greater potential.
language: English
title: Human Rights in the World: An Introduction to the Study of International Protection of Human Rights
titlecomplete: Human Rights in the World: An Introduction to the Study of International Protection of Human Rights
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Manchester Univ Pr