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 Right to Equality in European Human Rights Law: The Quest for Substance in the Jurisprudence of the European Courts
1st Edition
By Charilaos Nikolaidis
April 27, 2016
A right to equality and non-discrimination is widely seen as fundamental in democratic legal systems. But failure to identify the human interest that equality aims to uphold reinforces the argument of those who attack it as morally empty or unsubstantiated and weakens its status as a fundamental ...
Human Rights Law and Personal Identity
1st Edition
By Jill Marshall
April 21, 2016
This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human ...
Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations: Rights and Resources
1st Edition
By Rory O'Connell, Aoife Nolan, Colin Harvey, Mira Dutschke, Eoin Rooney
March 03, 2016
Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human ...
Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Jérémie Gilbert
March 03, 2016
Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over mobility, land rights, water resources, access to ...
Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture
1st Edition
By Ronli Sifris
March 03, 2016
This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place ...
Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations: Alternative Judgments
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Gibney, Wouter Vandenhole
December 07, 2015
Human rights have traditionally been framed in a vertical perspective with the duties of States confined to their own citizens or residents. Obligations beyond this territorial space have been viewed as either being absent or minimalistic at best. However, the territorial paradigm has now been ...
Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights: The Progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Nicola Ansell
July 16, 2015
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have a significant and positive impact...
Children and International Human Rights Law: The Right of the Child to be Heard
1st Edition
By Aisling Parkes
April 21, 2015
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it. Article Twelve is fundamental to the Convention and states that all children capable of forming views have the right ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Critique and Early Assessment
1st Edition
By Rosa Freedman
November 10, 2014
The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating...
The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Dimitris Xenos
October 28, 2014
The system of the European Convention of Human Rights imposes positive obligations on the state to guarantee human rights in circumstances where state agents dot not directly interfere. In addition to the traditional/liberal negative obligation of non-interference, the state must actively protect ...
Emerging Areas of Human Rights in the 21st Century: The Role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Odello, Sofia Cavandoli
August 12, 2014
This book includes a set of studies and reflections that have emerged since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Encompassing a number of human rights, such as the right to environmental protection, the right to humanitarian aid, and the right to democratic governance,...
State Security Regimes and the Right to Freedom of Religion and Belief: Changes in Europe Since 2001
1st Edition
By Karen Murphy
June 19, 2014
The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years. Despite the increasing interest however, debates have rarely questioned the conventional wisdom that an increase in the...