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By Christina M. Cerna
September 10, 2018
Over the past sixty years the regional human rights systems have surpassed the UN human rights bodies in affording protection to the victims of human rights violations. Most of these systems have courts that are empowered to issue legally binding judgments and reparations for violations of human ...
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By Dinah L. Shelton
July 04, 2014
The United Nations has been at the forefront of developing the international law of human rights for nearly seven decades. This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations and also includes essays on issues relating to ...
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By Stephanie Farrior
February 16, 2015
Although human rights were initially conceived as rights of the individual in relation to the state, there is growing recognition that human rights must also be respected in the international arena. This five-volume series set brings together the most important and influential scholarship on issues...
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By Stephanie Farrior
February 11, 2015
The principles of equality and non-discrimination lie at the heart of international human rights law. They are the only human rights explicitly included in the UN Charter and they appear at the beginning of virtually every major human rights instrument. This volume contains selected works by ...
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By Menno T. Kamminga
July 04, 2014
The main challenges within international human rights law are generally thought to be in the fields of transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism, development, poverty and environmental degradation. This volume of articles not only covers these mainstream challenges but also a wider and more...
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By David Weissbrodt, Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin
April 24, 2014
The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the world’s most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human rights law from its philosophical underpinnings and address many of its current controversies. The collected essays explore the drafting of major human ...