Human rights law : : from dissemination to application : essays in honour of Göran Melander / / Jonas Grimheden and Rolf Ring (editions.).

• TeilnehmendeR: Grimheden, Jonas.; Melander, Göran, 1938-; Ring, Rolf.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : M. Nijhoff,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This unique collection of essays has been compiled in honour of Professor Göran Melander, one of the founders of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), in Lund, Sweden. Göran Melander served as the Institute’s first director and subsequently as the Chairman of the...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Jonas Grimheden and Rolf Ring
• Group Accommodation and the Challenges of Education: Multicultural or Intercultural or a Combination of the Two? / Asbjørn Eide
• The Importance of an Education in Human Rights / M. Arthur Diakité
• The Education of Police in Human Rights a Framework for Human Rights Programmes Forpolice / Ralph Crawshaw
• Human Rights Education in China / LI Baodong
• Human Rights Education and Research in China: the Contribution of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute / Sun Shiyan
• Human Rights Education in the Netherlands / Cees Flinterman and Stacey Nitchov
• The Protection of Civilian Educational Institutions During the Active Hostilities of International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law / David a. G. Lewis
• The Self-reflective Human Rights Promoter / Jonas Grimheden
• Hugo Grotius and the Roots of Human Rights Law / Ove Bring
• Human Rights before International Criminal Courts / Vojin Dimitrijevic and Marko Milanovic
• Never Again? Rwanda and the World / Lennart Aspegren
• The Contested Notion of Freedom of Opinion / Herdís Thorgeirsdóttir
• From Protective Passports to Protected Entry Procedures? the Legacy of Raoul Wallenberg in the Contemporary Asylum Debate / Gregor Noll
• Implementing International Human Rights Law on Behalf of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: the Record of the Nordic Countries / Robin Lööf and Brian Gorlick
• The Legal Position of Asylum-seekers in Austria / Lauri Hannikainen
• Refugees in Swedish Private International Law / Michael Bogdan
• Civil Freedoms and Rights in the Swedish Constitution of 1974: the Process and the Rationale / Carl-Gustaf Andrén
• Various Interpretations of Human Rights for Women Challenges at United Nations Conferences / Elisabeth Gerle
• Implementation of International Conventions as a Socio­Legal Enterprise: Examples from the Convention on the Rights of the Child / Håkan Hydén
• List of Contributors / Jonas Grimheden and Rolf Ring.