Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The Human Rights Covenants at 50

    Their Past, Present, and Future

    Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). While the adoption of the two UN human rights covenants was celebrated all over the world, their 50th anniversary has received very little attention from the international community ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Exclusion from Public Space

    A Comparative Constitutional Analysis

    Series Book 129 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Hardly known twenty years ago, exclusion from public space has today become a standard tool of state intervention. Every year, tens of thousands of homeless individuals, drug addicts, teenagers, protesters and others are banned from parts of public space. The rise of exclusion measures is characteristic of two broader developments that have profoundly transformed public space in recent years: the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Realizing Utopia

    The Future of International Law

    Edited by Antonio Cassese ...
    Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists. Its contributors reflect on some of the major legal problems facing the international community and analyse the inconsistencies or inadequacies of current law. They highlight the elements - even if minor, hidden, or emerging - that are likely to lead to future changes or improvements. Finally, they suggest ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum?This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the legal advances that have led to some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

    Edited by Dinah Shelton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive and original overview of one of the fundamental topics within international law. It contains substantial new essays by more than forty leading experts in the field, giving students, scholars, and practitioners a complete overview of the issues that inform research, as well as a 'map' of the debates that animate the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

    A Living Document in a Changing World

    Series Book 2 - Open Reports Series
    The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • International Human Rights Law in Africa

    by Frans Viljoen ...
    This book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of human rights law in Africa. It examines the institutions, norms, and processes for human rights realization provided for under the United Nations system, the African Union, and sub-regional economic communitites in Africa, and explores their relationship with the national legal systems of African states. Since the establishment of the ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Women's Human Rights

    CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

    Series Book 3 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

    Edited by John H. Knox, Ramin Pejan ...
    The absence of a globally recognized right to a healthy environment has not prevented the development of human rights norms relating to the environment. Indeed, one of the most noteworthy aspects of human rights law over the last twenty years is that UN treaty bodies, regional tribunals, special rapporteurs, and other human rights mechanisms have applied human rights law to environmental issues ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees

    by Laura Westra ...
    Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means.Following on from her previous explorations of environmental justice as it relates to future generations and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law

    The Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law provides the definitive global survey of the discipline of international human rights law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a contemporary overview of a significant area within the field.As well as covering topics integral to the theory and practice of international human rights law the volume offers a broader ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies

    Law and Legitimacy

    Edited by Helen Keller, Geir Ulfstein ...
    Series Book 1 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    The effective implementation of human rights treaty obligations in national law is subject to increasing attention. The main responsibility for the international monitoring of national implementation at the global level is entrusted to the UN human rights treaty bodies. These bodies are established by the respective human rights conventions and are composed of independent experts. This book ... Read more

    $47.59 USD