Human Rights and International Law
About the Book Series
This series explores human right law's place within the international legal order, offering much-needed interdisciplinary and global perspectives on human rights' increasingly central role in the development and implementation of international law and policy.
Human Rights and International Law is committed to providing critical and contextual accounts of human rights' relationship with international law theory and practice. To achieve this, volumes in the series will focus on major debates in the field, looking at how human rights impacts on areas as diverse and divisive as security, terrorism, climate change, refugee law, migration, bioethics, natural resources and international trade.
Exploring the interaction, interrelationship and potential conflicts between human rights and other branches of international law, books in the series will address both historical development and contemporary contexts, before outlining the most urgent questions facing scholars and policy makers today.
Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf, Brigit Toebes
June 30, 2020
There is a clear overlap between securing socio-economic human rights for all persons and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society. Both are necessary to realise thriving, inclusive societies, with adequate living standards for all, based on human dignity. This edited ...
Tax Havens and International Human Rights
1st Edition
By Paul Beckett
December 12, 2019
This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals ...
Adoption Law and Human Rights: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Kerry O'Halloran
November 08, 2019
In recent decades, there have been many changes to adoption law and practice, such as a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase in the number consigned to public care, and an abrupt decrease in those made available on an intercountry basis. Additionally, human rights ...
The Legal Protection of Women From Violence: Normative Gaps in International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Rashida Manjoo, Jackie Jones
November 08, 2019
Violence against women remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society, at every level. Such violence is considered a systemic, widespread and pervasive human rights violation, experienced largely by women because they are women. Yet at ...
The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System: Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Surya Subedi, OBE, QC (Hon)
April 16, 2019
The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights violations are still a daily occurrence around the globe. The scorecard of the UN human rights mechanisms appears impressive...
Extracting Accountability from Non-State Actors in International Law: Assessing the Scope for Direct Regulation
1st Edition
By Lee James McConnell
October 18, 2018
The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agents, but also by powerful non-State actors. Contemporary phenomena such as globalisation, privatisation and the proliferation of internal armed conflict ...
The Emerging Law of Forced Displacement in Africa: Development and implementation of the Kampala Convention on internal displacement
1st Edition
By Allehone M. Abebe
June 08, 2018
As of the end of 2015, there were 40.8 civilians who had been internally displaced by conflicts and effects of natural disasters in various parts of the world. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are currently the largest group of persons receiving assistance from some of the main international ...
Business and Human Rights: History, Law and Policy - Bridging the Accountability Gap
1st Edition
By Nadia Bernaz
October 10, 2016
Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately ...