Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
About the Book Series
This series contains thought-provoking and original scholarship on human rights law. The books address civil and political rights as well as social, cultural and economic rights, and explore international, regional and domestic legal orders. The legal status, content, obligations and application of specific rights will be analysed as well as treaties, mechanisms and institutions designed to promote and protect rights.
Indigenous Children’s Right to Participate in Law and Policy Development
1st Edition
By Holly Doel-Mackaway
May 31, 2023
This book presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy, not only in Australia, but also in other jurisdictions. The model provides guidance about how to seek, listen to and respond to the voices of Indigenous children and young people. The participation of...
Global Reflections on Children’s Rights and the Law: 30 Years After the Convention on the Rights of the Child
1st Edition
Edited
By Ellen Marrus, Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
January 09, 2023
Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, this book provides diverse perspectives from countries and regions across the globe on its implementation, critique and potential for reform. The book revolves around key issues including progress in implementing the ...
Non-Governmental Organisations and the United Nations Human Rights System
1st Edition
By Fiona McGaughey
January 09, 2023
Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have become important, although sometimes overlooked, actors in international human rights law. Although NGOs are not generally provided for in the hard law of treaties, they use the UN human rights system to hold Governments to account. A key way in which they...
The Rohingya Crisis: Humanitarian and Legal Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Manzoor Hasan, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Priya Pillai
December 30, 2022
This edited volume addresses the broader aspects of the political and social landscape, human rights violations, accountability and advocacy efforts, and humanitarian challenges faced by the Rohingya from Myanmar. The work brings together different voices of legal, policy, and international ...
Rights of the Child, Mothers and Sentencing: The Case of Kenya
1st Edition
By Alice Macharia
August 29, 2022
This book draws international attention to the autonomy of the child accompanying incarcerated mothers, and those they leave behind in the community, despite being dependent on the convicted caregiver. Adopting a child rights perspective, the study explores how courts could go about sentencing ...
International Human Rights Law and Crimes Against Women in Turkey: Legislation on So-Called Honour Killings
1st Edition
By Ayşe Güneş
August 01, 2022
This book evaluates the effectiveness of current international human rights law, and in particular the recent Istanbul Convention, in eradicating so-called honour killings in Turkey. So-called ‘honour killings’ have become an issue of concern for the international community. In Turkey, in ...
Executive Clemency: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Pascoe, Andrew Novak
April 29, 2022
Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard and as an outlet for leniency in punishment. While the origins of clemency lie in the historical prerogative powers of once-absolute rulers...
Beyond Human Rights and the War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Satvinder S. Juss
June 30, 2020
This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia. Bringing together academics and experts from a variety ...
Human Rights and America's War on Terror
1st Edition
Edited
By Satvinder S. Juss
February 25, 2020
This volume examines the success of the 9/11 attacks in undermining the cherished principles of Western democracy, free speech and tolerance, which were central to US values. It is argued that this has led to the USA fighting disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to sanctioning the use of ...
The Istanbul Convention, Domestic Violence and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Ronagh McQuigg
May 23, 2019
The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 April 2011. The Convention entered into force on 1 August 2014 and has currently been ratified by ...
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups under International Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton
May 01, 2019
The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups ...
Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape: Isolation, inspiration, integration?
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva Brems, Ellen Desmet, Wouter Vandenhole
March 20, 2019
Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. ...