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International courts versus non-compliance mechanisms: comparative advantages…
The effective implementation of treaties is essential. This book examines the advantages of non-compliance mechanisms (NCMs) versus that of international courts and tribunals to support treaty fulfilment. It brings together globally-recognised names in international law, human rights law, environmental and climate change law, and trade law.
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- 9781009373913
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- xx, 508 pages; illustration
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- 341.5 VOI i
The Human Right to Citizenship: Situating the Right to Citizenship within Int…
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the right to citizenship in international and regional human rights law. It critically reflects on the limitations of state sovereignty in nationality matters and situates the right to citizenship within the existing human rights fra…
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- 9789004517523
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- xi, 459 p
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- 323.01 VON t
The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. The articles in this collection take up a tension between the wide political use of human rights claims…
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- 9783110263886
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- vi, 253 p
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- 323.01 GER t
Beyond data : human rights, ethical and social impact assessment in AI
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that focuses on human rights and encompasses…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9789462655317
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- XXIII, 200
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- 343.0999 Man b
Human Rights in Child Protection: Implications for Professional Practice and …
This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each ch…
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- 9783319948003
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Sex work, health, and human rights : global inequities, challenges, and oppor…
This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices. Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social an…
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- 9783030641719
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- XXIII, 263 p
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- 306.74 SHI s
A century of violence in a red city : popular struggle, counterinsurgency, an…
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activi…
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- 9780822374701
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- xiv ; 287p : ill.
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- 986.125 LES a
Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder?
Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state’s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers …
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- 9780821444887
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- 171p. : ill
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- 327.1 FAI f
Changing gender norms in Islam between reason and revelation
Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolu…
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- 9783863882983
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- 247p
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- 305.48697 MAR c
Imagining unequals, imagining equals : concepts of equality in history and law
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various historical case studies, from visionary practices in revolutionary France and the collection of data on the poor in 19th-century Germany, to claims raised under the minorit…
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- 9783839458877
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- 254 pg; ill.
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- 305.09 ULR i
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