International Human Rights Norms in Local Perspective
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andrew Novak
Although the influence and opinions of political elites, civil society, and the general public vary widely, the death penalty is universally in decline throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. This book explores the African contribution to the global death penalty debate and lessons for the international death penalty abolition movement.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Kolja Möller
Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis – the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging regime of international social human rights a promising candidate for countering the crisis of world society?
Acts of che 4th ACCA Conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve on mais 29th, 2015
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Arnaud Hoc, Stéphanie Wattier, Geoffrey Willems
The ACCA is an annual scientific event which aims at gathering researchers from all Belgian Law Schools. The topic of the 2015 Conference was “Human Rights as a Basis for Reevaluating and Reconstructing the Law”.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Eva Brems, Alexandra Timmer
The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds – such as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human rights monitoring bodies, including the United Nations human rights treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of Europe and the inter-American system.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Miao He
As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights protection and the conservation of protected areas?
La Protection de personnes fuyant un conflit armé et d'autres situations de violence
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Matthew Happold, Maria Pichou
Issues relating to the reception of asylum seekers in the EU are increasingly controversial. The Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts have taken rather different approaches. This book seeks to examine the two regimes and their interactions.
Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Bo Viktor Nylund
In a political climate that holds limited promise for addressing the issue of child recruitment, Child Soldiers and Transitional Justice: Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts challenges the trend towards a narrow focus on recruitment and use of the child, and seeks to contribute to more effective prevention and responses that offer the child a chance of recovery, reconciliation and reintegration.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bard Andreassen, Vo Khanh Vinh
This volume argues that normative and legal developments to regulate and govern the behaviour of transnational businesses represent a new frontier in the struggle for human rights.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Lize Glas
Dialogue is the new buzzword for the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) system. Judges throughout Europe have welcomed and encouraged dialogue, and references to the notion have become commonplace at conferences and in academic writing. Yet although the buzz has intensified, exactly why dialogue can be of added value is not often examined. Nor do those who rely on the notion usually explain how exactly it can be operationalised in a practical sense.
The Intersections between Society, Family, Faith and Culture
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg
The Child’s Interests in Conflict addresses the conflicting demands on children from minority groups or children born to parents of different cultural or faith backgrounds.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Yves Haeck, Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga, Clara Burbano Herrera
Drawing on the case law of the Court, this volume analyses crucial developments over the years on both procedural and substantive issues before the Inter-American Court.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Khadeija Elsheikh Mahgoub
This comprehensive and in-depth study on the understanding and interpretation of the child’s right to survival and development provides a compact assessment of article 6(2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in light of its drafting history, the reports of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and other relevant sources appropriate to the discipline of international human rights law.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Markku Suksi, Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides, Jean-Paul Lehners, Manfred Nowak
With the spotlight on Magna Carta and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen the existence of similar fundamental rights documents in other European countries is often overlooked. Such fundamental rights documents did, however, exist in the precursors to the current European Union Member States.
The cases of reproductive matters and legal recognition of same-sex relationships
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Nelleke Koffeman
Within the European Union there is considerable diversity in morally sensitive issues like legal recognition of same-sex relationships or reproductive matters, such as abortion, assisted human reproduction (AHR) and surrogacy.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Elena Ignovska
Although recent family law debates have been predominantly paedo-centric, the founding of “bio-medically assisted families” still focuses on the individual parents’ rights to reproduce. By introducing donations, the donor’s genetic contribution becomes instrumental and the legal attribution of parenthood negotiated through expressed intentions. This book provokes the curious mind and clarifies concepts, studies the rationale behind the legal complexity in ten national European jurisdictions, and confronts the rights and responsibilities of the stakeholders, providing a balanced independent conclusion and suggestions towards international harmonisation.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Olufemi Ojo Ilesanmi
Islamism, Statehood and Human Rights contributes to the ongoing universalist-relativist debate in international relations and law. At the heart of the book is the question of whether religious and political philosophies of contemporary Islamic regimes are compatible with human rights originating from the secular tradition of the West.
A brief look from the inside and perspectives from outside
Book | 1st edition 2015 | United Kingdom | Humberto Cantú Rivera
Special Procedures is the collective name given to the different mandates of Independent Experts, Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups in the field of human rights appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. This edited volume seeks to contribute to the dissemination of the work undertaken by different mandate-holders for the protection of human rights.
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Stefanie Jansen-Wilhelm
Disasters have a devastating effect on the lives of people. It is of essential importance that the response to a disaster is as effective and adequate as possible to limit and alleviate suffering. To this end, affected states can make use of offers of humanitarian assistance made by other states, international (humanitarian) organisations and NGOs. When in such cases the affected state refuses to accept international humanitarian assistance, the disaster survivors suffer the consequences.
