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Nationality and Statelessness in Europe
European Law on Preventing and Solving StatelessnessBook | 1st edition 2022 | Europe | Caia VlieksStatelessness remains an issue of concern in Europe. Stateless persons often experience problems with accessing basic rights, despite the proclamation of human rights and a right to a nationality for all. Various attempts have been made to address the issue of statelessness, for instance through the adoption of the United Nations Statelessness Conventions, but also by European regional cooperation mechanisms. This book analyses and places into context the legal approaches that states have taken together in the context of the Council of Europe and the European Union to prevent and solve statelessness from a human rights perspective.€111.00 incl. VAT -
Children's Access to Justice
A Critical AssessmentBook | 1st edition 2022 | United Kingdom | Mona Paré, Marielle Bruning, Thierry Moreau, Caroline Siffrein-BlancThis book is a collection of contributions examining children's access to justice within selected jurisdictions and various areas of law. It explores children's participation in judicial and non-judicial procedures in practice and discusses various obstacles to participation.€123.00 incl. VAT -
Latin American Experiences with Truth Commission Recommendations
Beyond Words Vol. IIBook | 1st edition 2022 | World | Elin Skaar, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Jemima Garcia-GodosBased on fieldwork unprecedented in scope, this project provides the first systematic study of the formulation and implementation of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. Vol. II consists of 11 in-depth case studies from Latin America.€129.00 incl. VAT -
Exploring Truth Commission Recommendations in a Comparative Perspective: Beyond Words Vol. I
Beyond Words Vol. IBook | 1st edition 2022 | World | Elin Skaar, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Jemima Garcia-GodosBased on fieldwork unprecedented in scope, this project provides the first systematic study of the formulation and implementation of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. Vol. I focuses on cross-country analysis.€97.00 incl. VAT -
European Yearbook on Human Rights 2021
Book | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Philip Czech, Lisa Heschl, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak, Gerd OberleitnerThe European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners, comprising contributions which engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe. The Yearbook helps to better understand the rich landscape of the European regional human rights system and is intended to stimulate discussions, critical thinking and further research in this field.€119.00 incl. VAT -
Human Rights and the Internet
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Joy LiddicoatThis book is a short and accessible introduction to the concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era of human rights online as a new legal challenge.€60.00 incl. VAT -
International Handbook on Child Participation in Family Law
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Wendy Schrama, Marilyn Freeman, Nicola Taylor, Marielle BruningThis topical and timely handbook provides a rich source of information for everyone with an interest in the application of children’s rights in practice.€123.00 incl. VAT -
Right to a Fair Trial
A Practical Guide to the Article 6 Case-Law of the European Court of Human RightsBook | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Päivi Hirvelä, Satu HeikkiläThis book provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date account of the Strasbourg case-law on the right to a fair trial. It focuses on the Court's most important fair trial cases which have been selected following the Court's Jurisconsult's opinion of their jurisprudential interest.€111.00 incl. VAT -
Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into National Law
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Ursula Kilkelly, Laura Lundy, Bronagh ByrneThis book presents a rich and detailed analysis of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It combines individual contributions that address the experience of legal incorporation in countries around the world, written by individual country experts, with comparative analysis of the international landscape from the world’s leading authorities on children’s rights incorporation.€85.00 incl. VAT -
Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons
How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons in EuropeBook | 1st edition 2021 | World | Grazyna BaranowskaThis book examines how international judicial and non-judicial bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons.€98.00 incl. VAT -
Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law
Book | 1st edition 2021 | World | Amy WeatherburnThe 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking. However, due to its lack of clarity on exploitation, ambiguity arises regarding the delineation between labor rights violations and extreme exploitation. This book aims to clarify this legal gap by conceptualizing labor exploitation within criminal law.
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At the Frontiers of State Responsibility
Socio-economic Rights and Cooperation on MigrationBook | 1st edition 2021 | World | Annick PijnenburgStates cooperate to stem irregular migration flows, yet migration control agreements often result in widespread violations of the socio-economic rights of people on the move contained in the Global South. This book examines the States that are responsible for these violations.€94.00 incl. VAT -
Blurred Lines of Responsibility and Accountability
Human Rights Abuses at Mega-Sporting EventsBook | 1st edition 2021 | World | Daniela HeerdtThis book discusses how delivering a Mega-Sporting Event (MSE) can impact human rights and highlights the challenges of dealing with cases of MSE-related human rights abuses and establishing legal responsibility.€94.00 incl. VAT -
Looking at Law through Children's Eyes
Book | 1st edition 2021 | United Kingdom | Marieke J. HopmanSince the adoption of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, all children in the world have rights that are protected by states - at least in theory. In practice, children's rights are grossly violated on a daily basis and on a global scale. This publication proposes that a better understanding of children's rights violations may be achieved if looking at law from a child's perspective.€112.00 incl. VAT -
European Yearbook on Human Rights 2020
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Philip Czech, Lisa Heschl, Karin Lukas, Manfred Nowak, Gerd OberleitnerThe European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together renowned scholars, emerging voices and practitioners. Split into parts devoted to recent developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE as well as through reports from the field, the contributions engage with some of the most important human rights issues and developments in Europe.€125.00 incl. VAT -
Culture in the State Reporting Procedure of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
How the HRC, the CESCR and the CEDAWCee use human rights as a sword to protect and promote culture, and as a shield to protect against harmful cultureBook | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Vincent VleugelEver since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 there has been a debate on the issue of universality and cultural diversity. The UN human rights treaty bodies have an important role to play in ensuring a proper balance between safeguarding the universality of the rights, while at the same time leaving room for cultural particularities. This book examines how the UN treaty bodies, in particular the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, fulfil this role.€125.00 incl. VAT -
The Transformative Potential of a Vulnerability Focus in Basic Assistance Policies
A Study on UNHCR and IOM in SudanBook | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Veronika FlegarThe term 'vulnerability' is often used in law and policy to refer to disadvantaged, marginalized or excluded human beings. This book explores how a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies can contribute to substantive equality and therefore to the realization of universal human rights in the migration context. It concentrates on the potential that such a vulnerability focus can have to mitigate stigmatization and stereotyping and to facilitate socio-economic participation.€129.00 incl. VAT -
A Re-examination of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in light of the Principle of Human Dignity
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Getahun A. MosissaThis book investigates what normative justification can be provided for economic, social and cultural rights guaranteed under international law and how this justification can or should impact the State obligations emerging from these rights.€103.00 incl. VAT -
Domestic Abuse and Human Rights
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Jonathan HerringThis book sets out a human rights approach to domestic abuse. It argues that the European Convention on Human Rights provides a powerful framework upon which to build a strong legal response to the problem of domestic abuse.€77.00 incl. VAT -
Protecting Trans Rights in the Age of Gender Self-Determination
Book | 1st edition 2020 | World | Eva Brems, Pieter Cannoot, Toon MoonenThis book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gender self-determination and its consequences for law and society, such as the future of sex/gender registration and the protection of trans persons against discrimination.€72.00 incl. VAT