Human rights in turmoil : facing threats, consolidating achievements / / by Stéphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith.
Are human rights gaining or losing ground? This question has become relevant after two decades of unprecedented progress in developing human rights standards and institutions. The political climate during the Cold War created many obstacles, but the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and its aftermath...
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| Superior document: | International studies in human rights ; v. 92 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International studies in human rights ;
v. 92. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Stéphanie Lagoutte , Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith
- Introduction Human Rights in Turmoil: Facing Threats, Consolidating Achievements / Stéphanie Lagoutte , Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith
- 1. The UN Reform Process in an Implementation Perspective / Morten Kjærum
- 2. The Future of the European Human Rights Control System: Fighting with Its Back to the Wall by Stéphanie Lagoutte / Stéphanie Lagoutte , Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith
- 3. Human Rights Reinforcement and Globalisation: Reflections about Global Governance / Hans-Otto Sano
- 4. The Uneasy Balance between Individual Rights and the Necessity of Communities / Sten Schaumburg-Müller
- 5. Human Rights on the Battlefield / John Cerone
- 6. Terrorism and Human Rights / Peter Vedel Kessing
- 7. Humanitarian Intervention and State Sovereignty: a Social Constructivist Analysis / Helle Malmvig
- 8. Manoeuvring in the Turbulent Sea of Human Rights and Religion: Religious Communities Approaching Human Rights / Eva Maria Lassen
- 9. Freedom from Want: Globalisation and Social Security / Hatla Thelle
- 10. Prisons and Human Rights: the Case of Solitary Confinement in Denmark and the US from the 1820's until Today / Peter Scharff Smith
- 11. The Right to a Nationality and the European Convention on Human Rights / Eva Ersbøll
- 12. Reflections of a Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights / Isi Foighel
- About the Contributors / Stéphanie Lagoutte , Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith
- Index / Stéphanie Lagoutte , Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith.