Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable : : Liber Amicorum in Honour of Theo van Boven / / edited by Fons Coomans, Fred Grünfeld, Ingrid Westendorp, Jan Willems.

• TeilnehmendeR: Coomans, Fons,; Grünfeld, Fred,; Westendorp, Ingrid,; Willems, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Those involved in human rights, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, sometimes cannot help feeling that they are dancing on a tightrope stretched between two high trees above a deep ravine. On one side of the ravine, a jungle stretches out as far as the eye can see; a jungle which is ruled by the laws of the fittest; laws that have no regard for justice and vulnerability. On the other side of the ravine, justice has, in the course of time, changed the laws of the jungle into laws which include and protect vulnerable individuals in society. In this second volume in celebration of Theo van Boven's 65th birthday, a number of Theo's friends try to come to grips with the tension between the `jungle of exclusion' and the `ideal of inclusion', in the full knowledge that Theo has preceded them in a great deal of pioneering work. The volume opens with an interview with Theo van Boven. Topics covered in the present volume include ( inter alia ): pre-20th century bills or rights, Mandelstam as forgotten pioneer of human rights, racial and gender discrimination, the rights of the child and child abuse, the right to reparation, the role of bystanders, globalization of economic power, economic and social rights and the European Union, tobacco use as a human rights issue, illegally obtained evidence, human rights policies, cultural diversity, human rights funding, the African human rights system, follow-up action to state reporting, character of the views of the Human Rights Committee, the Human Rights Committee and gender mainstreaming, the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court.

Table of Contents

Preface. -- Interview with Theo van Boven on 29 January 1999 -- F. Grünveld . -- Lessons Relating to Bills of Rights from Pre-Twentieth Century Experience -- P. Alston . -- The Interaction Between the United Nations System and the African System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights -- I. Badawi . -- Human Rights: Far Better of Far Worse? P. Baehr . -- Personal Note: Crossing Borders -- R. Bakker . -- Political Motives as Grounds of Racial Discrimination -- M. Banton. André Mandelstam . -- Forgotten Pioneer of International Human Rights -- H. Burgers . -- Follow-Up Action to State Reporting on Human Rights: Procedure and Practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- F. Coomans . -- Universalization of Human Rights Versus Globalization of Economic Power -- A. Eide . -- The United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Human Factor -- C. Flinterman . -- The Role of the Bystanders in Human Rights Violations -- F. Grünfeld . -- Short Note: Towards a Renewed Realism on the United Nations -- J. Kaufmann . -- The Character of the Views of the Human Rights Committee -- Y. Klerk . -- Concretizing the Right to Health: Tobacco Use as a Human Rights Issue -- V. Leary . -- Exclusion of Illegally Obtained Evidence and Protection of Human Rights from a Comparative Perspective -- H. Lensin . -- The Human Rights Committee, State Reports and Gender Mainstreaming -- C. Medina . -- The Right of Victims of Gross Human Rights Violations to Reparation -- M. Nowak . -- Human Rights Policies of the 1990s: Some Hometruths -- M. Picken . -- Human Rights: Universality and Cultural Diversity -- B. Ramcharan . -- Human Rights Funding: Time To Move From Projects to Strategies -- H. Thoolen, S. Ahmadi . -- From Europe, to EUrope and the EMUrope: Whither Economic and Social Rights? K. Tomaševski . -- Ratifying and Implementing ICERD: Weaknesses in State Reporting -- C. Welch Jr . -- Double Discrimination -- Racism and Sexism Combined -- I. Westendorp . -- Child Abuse and the Culture of Privacy -- J. Willems . -- The International Criminal Court and Domestic Jurisdictions: Competition or Concerted Action? H. van der Wilt . -- List of Contributors. -- Index.