Title: Failing to protect : the UN and the politicisation of human rights /
Authors: Freedman, Rosa,
Year: 2014
Subjects: United Nations; Human rights Political aspects.
Abstract: Failing to Protect explains why the respect in which the UN is held is not matched by admiration for its practical attempts to safeguard human rights. The book shows how certain countries and political blocs manipulate and undermine the UN's human rights efforts and argues for urgent and radical reform at the international level.
Contents: International law : what law? -- The UN : a brief explanation -- International humanitarian law, criminal law, human rights law -- Universal rights or cultural relativism? -- UN human rights machinery -- Look! We did something : South Africa and Israel -- Stop shouting, start helping : post-colonialism, human rights and development -- Human rights of migrants : what rights? -- The 'great' powers -- Out of sight, out of mind : hidden abuses across the world -- The 'good guys' -- It is not all doom and gloom -- Alternatives : a radical proposal -- Alternatives : a less radical alternative -- Alternatives : reform.