International Human Rights Law and Practice

includes index and biblioraphy

International human rights law and notions of human rights: foundations, achievements and challenges The development of human rights and international human rights law Current challenges The idea of human rights: theories and critiques Universal human rights: contestations and practices Further reading International human rights law: the normative framework Sources Rights, obligations and scope of application Implementation Human rights treaties as self-contained regimes Practical application: the role of law reform Human rights in practice Civil society Social movements NGOs Human rights defenders Legal professionals and human rights Health professionals and human rights Human rights field officers Human rights strategies Further reading The United Nations Charter system The human rights dimension of the Charter The Human Rights Council Special procedures The General Assembly and human rights The Security Council The UN human rights treaty system Common features of international human rights treaty bodies Reporting procedure General comments/recommendations Complaints procedures and jurisprudence of treaty bodies Regional human rights treaty systems The European human rights system The Inter-American human rights system The African human rights system Towards an Asian human rights system? Comparison of regional systems Individual complaints procedures Admissibility Merits Decisions by human rights treaty bodies Implementation of decisions and judgments Additional procedural options The Hissene Habre case: the interplay between domestic, regional and international proceedings Further reading Civil and political rights The right to life The right to be free from torture 326 The right to liberty and security 338 The right to a fair trial 345 Enforced disappearance as multiple human rights violation 351 Qualified rights, with a particular focus on freedom of expression 359 Economic, social and cultural rights 366 Brief historical context of economic, social and cultural rights 367 Progressive realisation and the nature of state obligations 369 Resource implications: the obligation to utilise `maximum available resources` 374 Minimum core obligations 377 Justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights 380 Indicators and benchmarks for measuring compliance 386 The right to health 390 The right to water 393 The right to education 397 The right to food 400 Group rights: self-determination, minorities and indigenous peoples 409 The nature of collective rights 410 Minorities as a subject of human rights 423 Indigenous peoples: is there a need for additional protection? 435 The human rights of women 452 Normative framework 454 Conceptual development 467 Women`s human rights and domestic contexts: `honour crimes` in the English legal system 475 The right to development, poverty and related rights 484 The human dimension of development 485 The right to development 488 Global partnerships for the financing of development 496 Practical application 500 Debt relief and the enjoyment of fundamental rights The right to a corruption-free society The right to a healthy environment Victims` rights and reparation The development of the right to reparation The right to reparation in international human rights law The right to reparation in international humanitarian law The right to reparation in international criminal law The right to reparation and violations by non-state actors The right to reparation for historical injustices and violations The notion and legal significance of the term Victim` The procedural right to an effective remedy The substantive right to reparation The double-edged sword of victims` politics Negotiating, litigating and administering reparations: experiences from the Holocaust and World War II reparations Reparation in action: litigating human rights cases The application of human rights in armed conflict