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 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...
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 ...