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.
The European Convention of Human Rights Regime: Reform of Immigration and Minority Policies from Afar
1st Edition
By Dia Anagnostou
May 27, 2024
Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the 1990s, this book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states and non-governmental actors to influence domestic change. Focusing on European Court of Human Rights litigation...
Capturing Caste in Law: The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination
1st Edition
By Annapurna Waughray
January 29, 2024
This book is about the legal regulation of caste discrimination. It highlights the difficulty of capturing caste in international and domestic law, and suggests solutions. Its aim is to contribute to the task of understanding how to secure effective legal protection from and prevention of ...
Civilian Drones, Visual Privacy and EU Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Girish Agarwal
January 29, 2024
This book examines rights issues in relation to visual privacy in the use of civilian drones. Here, visual privacy is described as the freedom from a combination of unwanted activities directed towards an individual, such as observing, recording, and publishing of personal visual information ...
The Workings of Human Rights, Law and Justice: A Journey from Nepal to Nobel Nominee
1st Edition
By Surya Subedi, QC
January 29, 2024
Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective that transcends the traditional divide between the West and the East, and the Global South and Global North. The work ...
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 ...
Economic and Social Rights Law: Incorporation, Justiciability and Principles of Adjudication
1st Edition
By Katie Boyle
June 13, 2022
This book develops principles of adjudication to facilitate accountability for violations of Economic and Social Rights.Economic and Social Rights engage with areas relating to social justice and their violation tends to impact on the most vulnerable members of society. Taking the UK as a case ...
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...