International Human Rights Law

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vul...

* New 43rd edition of comprehensive reference guide to international human rights * Provides authoritative country-by-country reports on human righ...

The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English....

A Washington Post bestseller While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, there is a hidden crisis silently u...

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attenti...

The prohibition of torture - the right to physical and mental integrity - is guaranteed in the strongest terms under international law. It is prote...

This monograph investigates the International, European and Commonwealth Caribbean approaches to human trafficking from an Analytical Eclectic pers...

Scholars and practitioners working in ''transitional justice'' are concerned with remedies of accountability and redress in the aftermath of confli...

Even as human rights provide the most widely shared moral language of our time, they also spark highly contested debates among scholars and policym...

Economic, social, and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relatin...

This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decisi...

It has been over 50 years since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. It is estimated that there are over 600,000...

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which ...

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the legal concept and the meaning of human dignity for each European state and the European Union. ...

A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate resear...

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include r...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. It incorporates a step-by-step approach t...

Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement examines calls for a truth commission to redress the brutal war during the breakup of the ...

THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the U...

The 'Legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the Pluriverse: the multiplicity of rules that app...

This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommend...

The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new'...

How can we best empower people living in the most economically disadvantaged areas of the world to improve their lives in ways that matter to them?...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is increasingly used to civilize grassroots disabled persons' organ...

Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genoc...

The recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For dec...

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice...

Cultural rights promote cultural and scientific creativity. Transformative and empowering, they also enable the pursuit of knowledge and understand...

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of int...

The Hidden Hands of Justice: NGOs, Human Rights, and International Courts is the first comprehensive analysis of non-governmental organization (NGO...

In recent years, transitional justice has become increasingly international in its scope. Due to ongoing animosities, lack of political will, and t...