Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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 July 28th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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 July 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. 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 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. 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 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. 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 April 3rd 2011 by Routledge