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The Guyana Court of Appeal
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 155.00This book is one of the few studies of how the rule of law has fared in a developing country since it achieved independence. more...
Judicial Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
BRILL 2005; US$ 279.00This volume seeks to bring together, for the first time, a collection of documents and case-law from different parts of the world, which shows the Courts at work in providing judicial protection of economic, social and cultural rights. more...
Preventive Diplomacy at the UN
Indiana University Press 2008; US$ 21.20The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts... more...
Contemporary Human Rights Ideas
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 29.95The vindication of human rights is a critical challenge of a new century. Yet, there is much contestation over rights in a globalizing, post 9/11 world, as human rights ideas come into contact with different cultures and with societies in varying stages of development. Leaders of government and civil society, and the academic world, are in need of... more...
Human Rights Protection in the Field
BRILL 2006; US$ 233.00Many shocking violations of human rights are taking place in conflicts, crises, and emergencies around the world. This book examines the need for protection in the field, surveys the experiences of the different human rights and humanitarian organizations, and assesses what works and what does not work. more...
The Protection Roles of UN Human Rights Special Procedures
BRILL 2009; US$ 101.00As the system of human rights special procedures goes forward to deal with the continuing and new challenges of human rights protection, this title records and recalls the considerable body of practice and precedents they have developed for the protection of human rights since the first special procedure was established in the mid 1960s. more...
Human Rights and U.N. Peace Operations: Yugoslavia
BRILL 2011; US$ 144.00This unique book, one of the first of its kind, discusses how human rights actually featured in UN peace operations in the deadly conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1996. It is based on original materials in the possession of the author, who was Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslava from 1992 to 1996 and... more...
The UN Human Rights Council
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 28.95The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights Council as the principal UN body concerned with human... more...
Preventive Human Rights
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 26.95The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of... more...
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