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Cambridge Core
04-06-2020
Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press. This online platform has been designed to help readers and researchers to make fast and easy journeys to a vast range of content.
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Sultana, F. and A. Loftus, Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water, 2020
17-07-2020
Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years.
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Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN, and a variety of substantive rights.
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Arnauld, A., The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights. Recognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, 2020
21-01-2021
The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights.
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The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists, but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another.
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Mahmoudi, H. and M.L. Penn, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights, 2020
17-07-2020
The concept of dignity is essential to discourses of human rights, and to understand what dignity means and requires, we must address a number of difficult questions with input from a wide range of disciplines. How is human dignity protected, maintained, or ensured in a rapidly changing world?
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Migration and Integration clarifies and proposes answers for all of the politically toxic questions associated with large-scale migration from the Global South to the Western liberal democracies.
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The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic.
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Our contemporary moment presents significant new justice challenges for people on the move. Anti-migrant sentiment has emerged in several ways. By executive order the US has adopted immigration policy that looks remarkably similar to a Muslim ban.
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Bretscher, F., Protecting the Religious Freedom of New Minorities in International Law, 2020
17-07-2020
This book examines the interpretation and application of the right to freedom of religion and belief of new minorities formed by recent migration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC).
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This book explores the India–Myanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity.
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Mégret, F. and P. Alston, The United Nations ad Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal, 2020
06-08-2020
The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability.
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Addressing the problem of reconciling China’s voting record in the UN on human rights and repressive policy at home, this book argues that domestic factors determine the way the Chinese government acts on wider human rights issues.
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On 21 December 2010, by its resolution 65/209 the UN General Assembly expressed its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction, when these are part of or amount to enforced disappearances, an
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HeinOnline: Civil Rights and Social Justice
09-10-2020
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
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This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights. Only the conception of human dignity –based on the Kantian distinction between price and dignity – can provide a sufficient basis.
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This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights.
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International human rights law has emerged as an academic subject in its own right, separate from, but still related to international law. This book explains the distinctive nature of this discipline by examining the influence of the idea of human rights on general international law.
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Human rights are at a crossroads.
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This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decision-making. It addresses fundamental questions such as: should terror organizations be engaged in the human rights discussion?