The emerging right to peace
Subtitle: its legal foundations
By: Carlos Villán Durán, professor of international human rights law, University of Alcalá, Madrid, president of the Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law, former staff member of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Series: Theo van Boven lecture -- volume 2; Theo van Boven lecture series -- volume 2.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge; Antwerp; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9781780682372
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Human rights; Peace
Description: This booklet contains the text of the Theo van Boven Lecture by Carlos Villán Durán, Professor of International Human Rights Law (University of Alcala, Madrid) and President of the Spanish Society for International Human Rights Law. Professor Carlos Villán Durán is also a former staff member of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.0The Theo van Boven lectures are organised annually by the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights as a tribute to Theo van Boven, emeritus Professor of International Law at Maastricht University, and formerly Director of the UN Division of Human Rights, member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and UN Special Rapporteur against Torture. Each year the Centre invites a prominent scholar to share with the audience her/his views on a topical issue in the field of human rights. The themes covered by the speakers reflect the wide range of interests of Theo van Boven.
Notes: "Maastrict Centre for Human Rights."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Background : a civil society initiative --; title: Legal foundations of the future UN Declaration on the Human Right to Peace --; title: Conclusions --; title: Discussion -- -- Annex:; title: The Advisory Committee Declaration on the Right to Peace.