Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

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1. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Towards Institution Building

   Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe

   Edited by Gauthier de Beco

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The book studies the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. It provides an in-depth examination of six such mechanisms: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), the...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

   By Amanda Cahill Ripley

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights

   By Dimitris Xenos

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The system of the European Convention of Human Rights imposes positive obligations on the state to guarantee human rights in circumstances where state agents dot not directly interfere. In addition to the traditional/liberal negative obligation of non-interference, the state must actively protect...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. The United Nations Human Rights Council

   A critique and early assessment

   By Rosa Freedman

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence

   The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law

   By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era

   Universality in Transition

   By James A. Sweeney

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. State Security Regimes and the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief

   Changes in Europe Since 2001

   By Karen Murphy

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years. Despite the increasing interest however, debates have rarely questioned the conventional wisdom that an increase in the...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

   The Law, Process and Practice

   By Marco Odello, Francesco Seatzu

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The book concerns the study and analysis of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an international legal perspective, taking into consideration the adoption of the 2008 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law

    Between Group Rights and Individual Rights

    By Anat Scolnicov

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    This book analyses the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and non-Western jurisdictions, the book sets out a topography of the different constitutional structures of religion within the state and their compliance with...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge