Defending human rights
Subtitle: tools for social justice : volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the 30th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
By: edited by Ida Lintel, Antoine Buyse, Brianne McGonigle Leyh
Contributors: Hoof, G. J. H. van (Godefridus J. H.), 1949-; Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten (Netherlands)
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge [U.K.]; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781780680828
Subjects: National human rights institutions; Human rights; Social justice
Other titles: Volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the 30th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights; Volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the thirtieth anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
Description: The Netherlands Institute of Human rights (Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten) (SIM) celebrates its 30th anniversary together with the valedictory lecture of one if its pioneers, Fried van Hoof. In 30 years the role of the regional human rights instruments and institutions has changed: their impact increased and thus more debate on their roles takes place. As the instruments and institutions are never a goal as such, but tools to increase social justice, the question has been raised what is, or should be their contribution to social justice? The speakers of the Conference on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of SIM and some of Fried van Hoof's former Ph.D candidates shed their light on various aspects of this question.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Social justice in the inter-American system of human rights : an approach  -- Pedro Nikken; title: The European Court of Human Rights and social justice  -- Egbert Myjer; title: The African regional human rights system and its potential for delivering, or at least contributing to, social justice  -- Frans Viljoen; title: The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights as a tool for social justice  -- Tan Hsien-Li; title: The League of Arab States : recent developments on human rights and social justice  -- Mervat Rishmawi; title: The institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN  -- Irene I. Hadiprayitno; title: Towards the establishment of a regional human rights mechanism in Asia  -- Mitsue Inazumi; title: Acting normal and doing good : the Dutch and human rights  -- Esther van den Berg; title: Health, human rights and social justice in Europe  -- Brigit Toebes; title: Economic and social rights and social justice movements : some courtship, no marriage, no children yet  -- Marlies Glasius; title: Empowering David to face Goliath : regional human rights systems and victims of corporate human rights violations  -- Nicola Jägers; title: A world court of human rights : Utopia? -- Manfred Nowak.