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• Title:The law of international human rights protection / Walter Kälin, Jörg Künzli.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kälin, Walter.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Künzli, Jörg.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K3240 .K35 2009 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
  
• Description:xlviii, 539 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:Human rights are invoked on many occasions. But are they more than lofty values and abstract principles? This text shows how human rights create legal entitlements for those protected by them and impose obligations on those bound by them.
  
• Notes:Based on the authors' book 'Universeller Menschenrechtsschutz' (2nd ed., 2008) published by Helbing & Lichtenhahn (Basel) and Nomos (Baden-Baden)
  Includes bibliography (pages [514]-531) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199565207 (cloth)
  0199565201 (cloth)
  
• Contents:I. Foundations of International Human Rights Law
  1. Origins and Universality
  2. Notions and Sources
  3. Legal Nature of Human Rights Obligations
  4. Scope of Application of Human Rights
  5. Basic Concepts of International Humanitarian Law
  I. Implementation of Human Rights
  6. Basic Principles
  7. Treaty Bodies
  8. Charter Based Bodies
  II. Substantive Guarantees
  9. Protection of Human Existence: Right to Life and Subsistence Rights
  10. Protection of Human Integrity: Prohibition of Ill-treatment and of Enforced Disappearance
  11. Protection of Human Identity: Prohibition of Discrimination, and Protection of Minorities
  12. Protection of Private Life
  13. Protection of the Intellectual and Spiritual Sphere
  14. Protection of the Human Person in the Economic Sphere
  15. Protection of Persons Deprived of their Liberty and Fair Trial Guarantees
  16. Protection of Participation in Political Life
  17. Protection During Migration, Forced Displacement, and Flight.