Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Ingrid Westendorp
The right to land plays a key role in the realisation of a plethora of human rights, Land is however becoming scarce and the poorest sectors of society are deprived of access to land whilst State authorities and foreign investors practise land grabbing.
The prohibition of abuse of rights in Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Paulien de Morree
This study seeks to shed light on the prohibition of abuse of rights in Article 17 ECHR in order to contribute to a more coherent interpretation of this provision.
The Interaction between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Andrea Marrone
This book offers an overview of the challenges occurring in the emerging regime of international criminal justice as a tool of sustainable peace. It illustrates the impact of such regime in international law and international relations focusing on the obstacles and concerns of its governance in the context of the maintenance and restoration of international peace and security.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Daniël Cuypers, Jogchum Vrielink
A carefully selected and rigourously peer reviewed set of papers from the ‘Equal is not Enough’ conference hosted at Antwerp University in February 2015.
This book is based on the author’s personal research and personal involvement with a wide range of subjects, such as the basic concepts of civil and social rights, discrimination and affirmative action, issues of procedure and jurisdiction and issues such as the death penalty and the protection of refugees, minorities and victims of armed conflicts.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Stephan Parmentier, Hans Werdmölder, Michaël Merrigan
The last decade has witnessed an increased criticism against the human rights paradigm for its obsession with the ‘culture of claims and rights’. These discussions are far from only theoretical or abstract. They bear consequences in everyday life, as evidenced in a number of areas, such as globalization, terrorism, multiculturalism, etc.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Roland Moerland, Hans Nelen, Jan Willems
The present volume contains papers that range from more general reflections on the theme of denialism and human rights to more specific areas of research that are relevant in terms of denialism such as genocide, children’s rights, the role of (inter)national organisations, penology, and social, economic and cultural rights.
Shifting the Convention System: Counter-dynamics at the National and EU Level
Book | 1st edition 2016 | Europe | Patricia Popelier, Sarah Lambrecht, Koen Lemmens
The goal of the volume is to explore how widespread criticism of the European Court of Human Rights is. It also assesses to what extent such criticism is being translated in strategies at the political level or at the judicial level and brings about concrete changes in the dynamics between national and European fundamental rights protection.
International Human Rights Norms in Local Perspective
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andrew Novak
Although the influence and opinions of political elites, civil society, and the general public vary widely, the death penalty is universally in decline throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. This book explores the African contribution to the global death penalty debate and lessons for the international death penalty abolition movement.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Kolja Möller
Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis – the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging regime of international social human rights a promising candidate for countering the crisis of world society?
Acts of che 4th ACCA Conference held in Louvain-la-Neuve on mais 29th, 2015
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Arnaud Hoc, Stéphanie Wattier, Geoffrey Willems
The ACCA is an annual scientific event which aims at gathering researchers from all Belgian Law Schools. The topic of the 2015 Conference was “Human Rights as a Basis for Reevaluating and Reconstructing the Law”.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Eva Brems, Alexandra Timmer
The scope of the book includes different stereotyping grounds – such as race, gender, and disability. Moreover, this book examines stereotyping approaches across a broad range of supranational human rights monitoring bodies, including the United Nations human rights treaty system as well as the regional systems that are most developed when it comes to addressing stereotypes: the Council of Europe and the inter-American system.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Miao He
As the world’s population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas can contribute to the safeguarding of human rights; on the other hand, neglecting human rights can be a trigger for the mismanagement and destruction of protected areas. How can an objective and systematic approach be used to balance human rights protection and the conservation of protected areas?
La Protection de personnes fuyant un conflit armé et d'autres situations de violence
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Matthew Happold, Maria Pichou
Issues relating to the reception of asylum seekers in the EU are increasingly controversial. The Luxembourg and Strasbourg courts have taken rather different approaches. This book seeks to examine the two regimes and their interactions.
Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts
Book | 1st edition 2016 | World | Bo Viktor Nylund
In a political climate that holds limited promise for addressing the issue of child recruitment, Child Soldiers and Transitional Justice: Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts challenges the trend towards a narrow focus on recruitment and use of the child, and seeks to contribute to more effective prevention and responses that offer the child a chance of recovery, reconciliation and reintegration.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Bard Andreassen, Vo Khanh Vinh
This volume argues that normative and legal developments to regulate and govern the behaviour of transnational businesses represent a new frontier in the struggle for human rights.
Book | 1st edition 2016 | United Kingdom | Lize Glas
Dialogue is the new buzzword for the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) system. Judges throughout Europe have welcomed and encouraged dialogue, and references to the notion have become commonplace at conferences and in academic writing. Yet although the buzz has intensified, exactly why dialogue can be of added value is not often examined. Nor do those who rely on the notion usually explain how exactly it can be operationalised in a practical sense.
