Author: Howard B. Tolley, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.
The International Commission of Jurists
Author: Howard B. Tolley, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203151
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Author: Nat Rubner
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847013546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847013546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Landmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.
Documents
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
International Law of Human Rights
Author: Judge Antonio Augusto (former Judge of the International Court of Justice Cancado Trindade, former Judge of the Internationational Court of Justice and former Judge and President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192893491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
The only textbook in the area to take a Global South perspective, drawing on the expertise of the authors and bringing in perspectives from a leading judge in the field. International Law of Human Rights takes students through a rigorous exploration of the theoretical foundations and principles of the subject, alongside current practice and procedures.- Provides a unique Global South perspective, offering a broad view of the subject area.- Focuses on the historical and philosophical foundations of human rights before exploring global and regional systems for their protection, and key substantive rights.- Presents a clear and accurate account of current human rights law practice.- Deep discussion and thorough analysis supported by 'further reflections' and 'critical debate' sections, and summaries of key cases.- Insightful testimonial from the distinguished Judge Cançado Trindade helps to bring a complex discipline to life.- Also available as an e-book with features and links that offer extra learning support.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192893491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
The only textbook in the area to take a Global South perspective, drawing on the expertise of the authors and bringing in perspectives from a leading judge in the field. International Law of Human Rights takes students through a rigorous exploration of the theoretical foundations and principles of the subject, alongside current practice and procedures.- Provides a unique Global South perspective, offering a broad view of the subject area.- Focuses on the historical and philosophical foundations of human rights before exploring global and regional systems for their protection, and key substantive rights.- Presents a clear and accurate account of current human rights law practice.- Deep discussion and thorough analysis supported by 'further reflections' and 'critical debate' sections, and summaries of key cases.- Insightful testimonial from the distinguished Judge Cançado Trindade helps to bring a complex discipline to life.- Also available as an e-book with features and links that offer extra learning support.
The right to a remedy and to reparation for gross human rights violations : a practitioners' guide
Author: Cordula Dröge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789290371069
Category : Government liability (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789290371069
Category : Government liability (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Report - Justice (Society)
Author: Justice (Society)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
International Law and Fact-Finding in the Field of Human Rights
Author: Bertie G. Ramcharan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004482288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004482288
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Nongovernmental Organizations and the Ideas of Human Rights
Author: Lowell Livezey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Le plateau continental dans la Convention de 1982 sur le droit de la mer
Author:
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789024736362
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Annotation The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law."
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789024736362
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Annotation The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law."