Research handbook on international human rights law
By: edited by Sarah Joseph, Adam McBeth
Series: Research handbooks in international law; Research handbooks in international law series
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781847203687
Description: This innovative and timely Handbook brings together the work of 25 leading human rights scholars from all over the world to consider a broad range of human rights topics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The United Nations and human rights / Sarah Joseph and Joanna Kyriakakis; title: Economic, social and cultural rights : an examination of state obligations / Manisuli Ssenyonjo; title: Extraterritoriality : universal human rights without universal obligations? / Sigrun I. Skogly; title: Non-state actors and international human rights law / Robert McCorquodale; title: NGOs and human rights : channels of power / Peter J. Spiro; title: Human rights in economic globalisation / Adam McBeth; title: Human rights and development / Stephen P. Marks; title: Gender and international human rights law : the intersectionality agenda / Anastasia Vakulenko; title: Refugees and displaced persons : the refugee definition and "humanitarian" protection / Susan Kneebone; title: International criminal law / Elies van Sliedregt and Desislava Stoitchkova; title: Four pillars of transitioned justice : a gender-sensitive analysis / Ronli Sifris.; title: The International Court of Justice and human rights / Sandesh Sivakumaran; title: The Council of Europe and the protection of human rights : a system in need of reform / Virginia Mantouvalou and Panayotis Voyatzis; title: The Inter-American human rights system : selected examples of its supervisory work / Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin; title: African human rights law in theory and practice / Magnus KillanderThe political economy and culture of human rights in East Asia / Michael C. Davis; title: Islam and the realization of human rights in the Muslim world / Mashood A. Baderin; title: Religion, belief and international human rights in the twenty-first century / Peter Cumper; title: DRIP feed : the slow reconstruction of self-determination for indigenous peoples / Melissa Castan; title: Counter-terrorism and human rights / Alex Conte; title: Human rights education : a slogan in search of a definition / Paula Gerber.