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Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice (Global Institutions) - Hardcover

Book 58 of 108: Global Institutions

Ramcharan, Bertrand

 
9781138807143: Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice (Global Institutions)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138807141 ISBN 13: 9781138807143
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights.

Updates include:

  • Discussion of the recent intellectual challenges to the international human rights movement

  • Examination of the establishment and functioning of the Human Rights Council and the Universal Review Process

  • Evaluation of the developments in the area of the Responsibility to Protect and continued efforts to implement the right to development

  • Inclusion of issues such as the push for compensation for slavery, experiments with democracy in a number of countries and the decisions of international judicial and human rights organs on conceptual and protection issues

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Global Institutions, International Law and Human Rights.

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About the Author

Bertrand G. Ramcharan, formerly Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, is President of the Non-Governmental Organization, UPR Info.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138807141
ISBN 13 
9781138807143
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
216