International Human Rights Law

The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and indivi...

This title was first published in 2000: An investigation of how the claims of minority groups for greater political power through 'autonomy' and 's...

This title was first published in 2003. Theories of human rights are important, as they can be a means to challenging entrenched and oppressive pow...

This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a con...

This book demonstrates the empirical gains and integrative potentials of social systems theory for the sociology of law. Against a backdrop of clas...

This book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria,...

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect an...

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North Canada, Austra...

This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victims procedural place within modern Western societies. Taking the history of the Iris...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of a fundamental human freedom and a cornerstone of democracy: the Freedom of Religions or Beliefs (FoRB). Th...

The dominant approach to economic policy has so far failed to adequately address the pressing challenges the world faces today: extreme poverty, wi...

The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out a Black Letter text of international humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and exte...

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agenc...

This book presents interdisciplinary and comparative analyses of judicial independence in transitional democracies across Asia, Latin America, East...

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs). It explores the i...

This book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the prote...

This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights. Examining the historical legal roots of contemporary...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the worlds most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human right...

Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genet...

Kolliniatis groundbreaking book, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Asylum Centers in Greece and Philosophical Values, challenges the notio...

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water. The regulation of fres...

This book discusses existing and future trends concerning the development of migratory policies between local and global levels, to understand the ...