Human Rights Law

A reference covering the issues and context of rights including the universality of rights, the hierarchy of rights, and conflicts between rights. Gibson provides a guide to the meanings of terms and concepts found in international human rights law. This is a print book.

This book provides an introduction to the history and the latest developments in international human rights law. Exploring the origins, customs and institutions that have emerged globally and regionally in the last two centuries, this book guides readers through the major treaties and declarations that form the foundations of the discipline today. This is a print book.

This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state. Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions.

This Research Handbook offers an in-depth examination of the most significant factors affecting compliance with international human rights law, which has emerged as one of the key problems in the efforts to promote effective protection of human rights. In particular, it examines the relationships between regional human rights courts and domestic actors and judiciaries.

This book aims to explicate and defend an account of human rights as universal rights. The author do not, however, argue that human rights are timeless, unchanging, or absolute. The author shows that any list or conception of human rights—and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific and contingent. Nonetheless, the author argues that the particularity of human rights is compatible with a conception of human rights as universal rights. This is a print book.

Hurst Hannum and the contributors to this volume describe in detail regional and global regimes and evaluate the relative effectiveness of the many human rights procedures that are available to today's practitioner and nongovernmental organization. This is an eBook.

This interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions.Within its conceptual framework, the book thoroughly covers the major topics of international human rights: the basic characteristics of international law; evolution of the human rights movement movement; civil, political, economic and social rights; the humanitarian laws of war; globalization; self-determination; women's rights; universalism and cultural relativisim; intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions; implementation and enforcement; internal application of human rights norms; and the spread of constitutionalism. This is a print book.

This volume demonstrates that the wrongs of discrimination can best be understood from the perspective of the discriminated, and that gender discrimination persists and grows in new and different contexts, widening the gap between the principle of gender equality and its realization, particularly for subgroups of women and LGBTQ+ peoples. Frontiers of Gender Equality provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. This is a print and eBook.