Asylum Matters

This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’…

Human Trafficking Under International and Tanzanian Law

This book deals with the problem of human trafficking in Tanzania in the light of international law and considers human trafficking as both a criminal offence in Tanzania and a human rights violation within international law in general. The book broadens the reader’s understanding of the subject of human trafficking and Tanzania’s legal approach to the issue and allows the reader to …

Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine. Around the globe, diverse societies have pursued truth-telling, restorative justice and reconciliation to end conflict -- yet the language of transitional justice has been all but absent in Israel/Palestine. This volume squarely addresses how transitional justice could contribute to confl…

International Law in Disaster Scenarios

The book identifies the main international concepts and rules that are of special relevance in disaster settings and critically analyses how they are implemented in such contexts. It shows that, although the crucial and growing importance of disaster response has resulted in a complex framework of international obligations, it is nonetheless guided by certain general principles/values. In …

An Introduction to the Criminology of Genocide

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide. It draws on sociological, political, and historical concepts to discuss how they contribute to our understanding of genocide as an international crime. It walks students through the evolution of genocide as a criminal act and the legal responses available usin…

Transnational Legal Activism in Global Value Chains

This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions – legal, political, and even artistic – that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012. It illuminates the different substantive and procedural aspects of the legal proceedings and negotiations between the various local and transnational actors implicated in the Ali Enterprises fire, as well…

Evictionism

This book applies libertarian property rights theory to a vexing controversy, abortion. This book offers a compromise solution that will not fully please either of the two sides of this debate, but, is the only possible reconciliation between the two. Nor are its benefits limited to the fact that the opposing forces in this debate may be brought together. Evictionism, also, is the only philosop…

International Human Rights Law

This textbook provides a thorough and systematic overview of human rights law, including the most relevant practice and case law, but also dealing with theoretical issues. It pursues an original approach, seeking to reconcile its didactic purpose with a scientific one, positing that there must be a necessary synergy between these two purposes. Furthermore, the author is convinced that internati…

The Rule of Law in Europe

This book discusses the nature of the challenges that have confronted European democracies in recent years. In the past decade, the rule of law in Europe has been put under strain by both external and internal factors. The term “illiberal democracies” is sometimes used to describe the rise of a phenomenon in which the fundamental values of the European legal order, as enshrined in the Europ…

Myth or Lived Reality

Chapters How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments & Refugees in Turkey by Elif Durmuş and Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From ‘Hobby of the Few’ to the Few Behind the Hobby by Tihomir Sabchev, Sara Miellet, and Elif Durmuş are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com This …

Whistleblower Protection by the Council of Europe, the European Court of Huma…

First introduced in the United States, whistleblower laws have become increasingly popular around the world. This book illustrates the regional efforts undertaken by European organizations to promote whistleblower protection in Europe. To provide context, the first part of the book presents an overview of the international best practices for whistleblowing legislation and explores the status of…

National Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children

Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights’ bodies for children’s rights. This book provides an in-depth look at one domestic independent children’s rights institution: the Irish Ombudsman for Children…

Urgency and Human Rights

This book deals with urgency and human rights. ‘Urgent’ is a word often used, in very different contexts. Yet together with a reference to human rights violations, it likely triggers images of people caught up in armed conflict, facing terror from either the state, gangs, paramilitaries, or terrorists. Or of people fleeing terror and facing walls, fences or seas, at risk of being returned t…

The Evolving Psyche of Law in Europe

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens. It adopts a psycho-historical perspective to discuss the evolution of international and European law with regard to th…

Prison in Iran

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination takes behind the prison walls. The book draws on the voices of 90 men and women who have been imprisoned in Iran, interviewed …

Fundamental Rights Challenges

This book presents a comprehensive review of fundamental rights issues that are currently in the spotlight. The first part explores why the question of whether or not fundamental rights have horizontal effect is a topic of endless debate. The second part focuses on human rights and the rule of law. It begins by arguing that the hitherto valid model of the rule of law is now outdated, and then g…

The rights and duties of neutrals: A general history

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1-929446-06-3

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xiii, 272 p.; 23 cm.

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341.48 Nef r

UNCOVERING CRIME WITH CRIME: SURVEY OF TORTURE AT DETENTION CENTERS IN 2008

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978-979-96627-8-1

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xiii, 79 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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323.09598 Unc u

Human Rights in the Global Political Economy : Critical Processes

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978-1-58826-719-1

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232 p.; 23 cm.

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323.4 Eva h

Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform

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90-411-1935-3

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xv, 318 p. ; 25 cm

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326 Rit r

Rule of Law untuk Hak Asasi Manusia di Kawasan Asean: Studi Data Awal

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327p. ; 25 cm

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323.4 Rul r

REMANG-REMANG INDONESIA : Laporan Hak Asasi Manusia 1986-1987

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x, 231 hlm.; 20 cm

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323.095 98 Rem r

HUMAN RIGHTS IN A CHANGING EAST/ WEST PERSPECTIVE

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1

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0-86187-131-6

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v, 375 p. ; 23 cm

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323 Hum h 1990

Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume 1

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92-1-15-4091-7

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xii, 414 p.; 21 cm.

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341.481 Hum h

THE REALM OF RIGHT

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LEMBAR FAKTA HAM, Edisi II

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533 pages ; 31 cm

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323.4 Lem l

ANALISIS DAN EVALUASI HUKUM TENTANG PENGHAPUSAN DISKRIMINASI RASIAL

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xii+203hlm.;21cm

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341.48 Ana

Lembar Fakta HAM

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533 pages ; 31 cm

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323.4 Lem