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 Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition
1st Edition
By James A. Sweeney
June 19, 2014
The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition examines transitional justice from the perspective of its impact on the universality of human rights, taking the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights as its detailed case study. The problem is ...
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Law, Process and Practice
1st Edition
By Marco Odello, Francesco Seatzu
June 19, 2014
The book concerns the study and analysis of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an international legal perspective, taking into consideration the adoption of the 2008 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).The ...
The EU as a ‘Global Player’ in Human Rights?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Wetzel
October 25, 2013
The Treaty of Lisbon has endowed the EU with a normative human rights framework that confirms recognition as a fully-fledged regional mechanism for the protection of human rights. The aim of this book is to contribute to the growing discussion of the external human rights dimension of the...
Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights: International Standards and Comparative Experiences
1st Edition
By Paul O'Connell
October 25, 2013
Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and...
Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations: Humanizing Business
1st Edition
By Surya Deva
July 24, 2013
Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for human rights abuses. The Bhopal gas leak – examined as a site of human rights violations rather than as a mass ...
The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
1st Edition
By Amanda Cahill Ripley
June 19, 2013
The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This is a highly topical issue, with the UN General Assembly having passed a resolution which ...
Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region: Towards Institution Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul
May 03, 2013
The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of ...
Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms of the Council of Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Gauthier de Beco
April 11, 2013
The book studies the human rights monitoring mechanisms of the Council of Europe. It provides an in-depth examination of six such mechanisms: the Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), the ...
International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence: The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law
1st Edition
By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg
April 11, 2013
This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come ...
The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law: Between Group Rights and Individual Rights
1st Edition
By Anat Scolnicov
September 10, 2012
This book analyses the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and non-Western jurisdictions, the book sets out a topography of the different constitutional structures of religion within the state and their compliance with ...
The Right to Development in International Law: The Case of Pakistan
1st Edition
By Khurshid Iqbal
May 08, 2012
The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of ...
Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John Harrington, Maria Stuttaford
April 30, 2012
The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank and WTO are increasingly using or being evaluated with reference to health rights, and...