Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. The Right to Development in International Law

   The Case of Pakistan

   By Khurshid Iqbal

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Global Health and Human Rights

   Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

   Edited by John Harrington, Maria Stuttaford

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank and WTO are increasingly using or being evaluated with reference to health rights, and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights

   International Standards and Comparative Experiences

   By Paul O'Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. The EU as a ‘Global Player’ in Human Rights?

   Edited by Jan Wetzel

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Treaty of Lisbon has endowed the EU with a normative human rights framework that confirms recognition as a fully-fledged regional mechanism for the protection of human rights. The aim of this book is to contribute to the growing discussion of the external human rights dimension of the...

   Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
9. Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations

   Humanizing Business

   By Surya Deva

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass...

   Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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 August 1st 2011 by Routledge