Human rights matters
Subtitle: local politics and national human rights institutions
By: Julie A. Mertus.
Series: Stanford studies in human rights
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780804760935; 9780804760942
Subjects: Human rights advocacy -- Europe -- Case studies; Human rights -- Europe -- Case studies; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Operationalizing human rights at the local level; title: "Opinion doctors" and "can openers" : Denmark; title: "The toughest job I ever had" : Northern Ireland; title: Counting in threes : Bosnia-Herzegovina; title: When less is more : the Czech Republic; title: Straddling Checkpoint Charlie : Germany.