Rendering Justice to the Vulnerable : : Liber Amicorum in Honour of Theo van Boven /

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

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...

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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.
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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.

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