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• Title:International human rights law / Rhona K. M. Smith.
  
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• Author/Creator:Smith, Rhona K. M., author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2020]
  

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  • Call Number: K3240 .S55 2020
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
  International law and human rights.
  
• Medical Subjects: Human Rights
  
• Edition:Ninth edition.
  
• Description:xxxviii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN and a variety of substantive rights. The author skilfully guides students through the complexities of the subject, and then prepares them for further study and research.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0198843674 paperback
  9780198843672 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  1.1. Public international law
  1.2. International human rights law
  1.3. Overview and structure of book
  2. Historical background
  2.1. Origins of international human rights
  2.2. eighteenth century: revolutions and rights
  2.3. role of international law
  2.4. law of aliens
  2.4.1. Reparations and reprisals
  2.4.2. two schools of thought
  2.4.3. Contemporary law on aliens
  2.5. Diplomatic laws
  2.5.1. development of diplomatic law
  2.5.2. Modern diplomatic law
  2.6. laws of war
  international humanitarian law
  2.6.1. laws of war
  2.6.2. Humanitarian law
  2.6.3. Modern humanitarian law and laws of war
  2.7. Slavery
  2.7.1. development of the law
  2.7.2. modern law of slavery
  2.8. Minority rights
  2.8.1. treaty approach to minorities
  2.8.2. link to nationalism
  2.8.3. After the First World War
  2.8.4. Peace Conference
  2.8.5. League of Nations and minorities
  2.8.6. modern law on minorities
  2.9. International Labour Organization
  2.10. After the Second World War
  2.10.1. Potsdam Conference
  2.10.2. Towards international protection of human rights
  2.10.3. On the brink of the United Nations
  3. United Nations
  3.1. United Nations Charter
  3.2. Security Council
  3.2.1. Self-determination
  3.2.2. United Nations interventions
  3.2.3. Other situations
  3.2.4. Sanctions
  3.3. General Assembly
  3.3.1. Debates and Declarations on human rights issues
  3.3.2. Receiving reports
  3.4. International Court of Justice
  3.5. Economic and Social Council
  3.5.1. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
  3.6. Human Rights Council
  3.6.1. former Commission on Human Rights
  3.6.2. Human Rights Council
  3.6.3. functions of the Council
  3.6.4. Individual complaints
  3.6.5. Special procedures
  3.6.6. Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
  3.7. High Commissioner for Human Rights
  3.7.1. High Commissioner for Human Rights
  3.8. International criminal law
  an independent system
  3.8.1. influence of the Nuremberg Criminal Tribunal
  3.8.2. International Criminal Court
  3.9. Developing international human rights law
  3.9.1. Treaty-monitoring bodies
  3.10. Building international human rights law
  3.10.1. Protection of vulnerable groups
  3.11. Other human rights instruments
  3.11.1. Slavery, torture, forced labour, and trafficking
  3.12. impact of the United Nations on international human rights
  4. International Bill of Human Rights
  4.1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  4.1.1. Is the Universal Declaration binding?
  4.1.2. importance of the Universal Declaration
  4.1.3. content of the Universal Declaration
  4.1.4. Minority protection and the Universal Declaration
  4.1.5. relevance of the Universal Declaration
  4.2. United Nations International Covenants of 1966
  4.2.1. family of universal rights?
  4.2.2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  4.2.3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  4.3. Building on the Bill of Rights-extending international human rights law
  4.4. Conclusions on the Bill of Human Rights
  5. Regional protection of human rights
  5.1. advantages of regional systems
  5.1.1. Drafting and adopting texts
  5.1.2. Accessibility
  5.1.3. Enforceability
  5.2. principal regional systems
  5.3. Other regional initiatives
  5.3.1. Arab League
  5.3.2. Commonwealth of Independent States
  5.3.3. Asia and the Pacific
  5.4. Conclusions on regional systems
  6. Europe
  6.1. Council of Europe
  6.1.1. development of European human rights protection
  6.1.2. Convention and associated instruments
  6.1.3. institutional framework
  6.1.4. Implementing human rights
  the institutional machinery
  6.1.5. Monitoring the European Convention on Human Rights
  6.2. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  6.2.1. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
  6.2.2. High Commissioner on National Minorities
  6.2.3. Representative on Freedom of the Media
  6.3. European Union
  6.3.1. European Court of justice/Court of Justice of the European Union and human rights
  6.3.2. Constitutional recognition of human rights in the European Union
  6.3.3. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  6.3.4. Fundamental Rights Agency
  6.3.5. Social policy
  6.4. Conclusions
  7. Americas
  7.1. development of American human rights
  7.2. Declaration and the Conventions
  7.2.1. American Declaration
  7.2.2. American Convention
  7.2.3. Additional Protocols
  7.2.4. Other conventions and instruments
  7.3. institutional framework
  7.3.1. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
  7.3.2. Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  7.3.3. Inter-American Council for Integral Development
  7.3.4. General Assembly
  7.3.5. Inter-American Commission of Women
  7.4. Implementing human rights
  7.4.1. Monitoring human rights outwith the Convention
  7.4.2. Convention
  reports
  7.4.3. Convention
  inter-State complaints
  7.4.4. Convention
  individual complaints
  7.5. Conclusions
  8. Africa
  8.1. Development of human rights protection
  8.2. African Charter and other instruments
  8.2.1. African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
  8.2.2. OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa 1969
  8.2.3. African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa 2009
  8.2.4. African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990
  8.2.5. Protocol on Women's Rights
  8.3. Institutional framework
  8.3.1. African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
  8.3.2. African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
  8.3.3. Proposed African Court of justice and Human Rights
  8.3.4. Assembly of Heads of State and Government
  8.3.5. role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  8.4. Enforcing human rights
  8.4.1. Reports
  8.4.2. Inter-State complaints
  8.4.3. Individual complaints
  8.5. African (sub-)regional mechanisms
  8.5.1. ECOWAS
  8.5.2. East African Community
  8.6. Conclusions
  9. Monitoring, implementing, and enforcing human rights
  9.1. reports system
  9.2. Inter-State complaints
  9.3. Individual complaints
  9.4. Special procedures: rapporteurs, independent experts, and working groups
  9.5. Site/country visits
  9.5.1. Torture Prevention and Visits to Places of Detention
  9.6. Fact Finding Missions and Commissions of Inquiry
  9.7. role of ancillary bodies
  9.7.1. United Nations' bodies
  9.7.2. International Committee of the Red Cross
  9.8. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  9.9. Individuals
  9.10. National human rights institutions
  9.11. Overview of problems with the present system
  9.11.1. Ratifications, declarations, and reservations
  9.11.2. State reports
  quantity and quality
  9.11.3. Resources
  9.11.4. Implementation and sanctions
  9.12. Pluralism and homogeneity
  9.13. Reform? Some observations
  10. Substantive rights
  general comments
  10.1. Content of rights
  10.2. State discretion and other limitations
  10.2.1. State discretion
  10.2.2. Clash of rights
  10.2.3. Derogations
  10.2.4. Reservations
  10.2.5. Declarations
  10.2.6. Denunciations
  10.3. Interpretation and application
  10.4. Examining human rights
  11. Equality and non-discrimination
  11.1. concept of equality
  11.2. prohibition on discrimination
  11.3. Sex discrimination
  11.3.1. Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  11.3.2. Developing the law
  11.3.3. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  11.3.4. Strengthening women's rights
  11.4. Race discrimination
  11.4.1. Development of international law
  11.4.2. Declaration and the Convention
  11.4.3. Definition of `racial discrimination'
  11.4.4. Conclusions
  11.5. Religious discrimination
  11.5.1. Developing the international prohibition
  11.5.2. Developing the Declaration
  11.5.3. Content of the Declaration
  11.5.4. Developing the concept
  11.5.5. Special thematic rapporteurs on religious intolerance and discrimination
  11.5.6. Discrimination at work
  11.5.7. Conclusions
  11.6. Other grounds of discrimination
  11.6.1. Language
  11.6.2. Ability/disability
  11.6.3. Others
  11.7. Conclusions
  12. Rights for specific vulnerable persons
  12.1. Vulnerable people
  12.2. Refugees
  12.2.1. Historical issues
  12.2.2. Refugees' rights and the 1951 Convention
  12.2.3. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  12.2.4. Regional developments
  12.2.5. Developments
  12.3. Internally displaced persons
  12.3.1. International developments
  12.3.2. Regional developments
  12.4. Stateless persons
  12.4.1. International developments
  12.4.2. Rights of stateless persons
  12.5. Women
  12.5.1. Historical issues
  12.5.2. Rights of women
  12.5.3. International developments
  MSA Regional developments
  12.6. Children
  12.6.1. Historical issues
  12.6.2. Children's rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
  12.6.3. International developments
  12.6.4. Regional developments
  12.7. Older persons
  Contents note continued: 12.7.1. Key issues
  12.7.2. International developments
  12.7.3. Regional developments
  12.8. Conclusions
  13. right to life
  13.1. Right to life
  13.1.1. positive obligation to protect life
  13.1.2. Parameters of life
  13.2. Permissible deprivation of life
  13.2.1. Death penalty
  13.2.2. Death by actions of State security forces
  13.2.3. Death during armed conflict
  13.3. Genocide
  13.3.1. Definition of genocide
  13.3.2. Genocide Convention
  13.3.3. Genocide as an international crime
  13.3.4. work of the International Criminal Tribunals
  13.3.5. Conclusions on the prohibition on genocide
  13.4. Conclusions
  14. right to liberty of person
  14.1. Slavery and servitude
  14.1.1. Slavery
  14.1.2. Slave trade and trafficking
  14.1.3. Analogous practices
  14.1.4. Forced or compulsory labour
  14.2. Liberty and security of person
  14.2.1. Deprivation of liberty
  14.2.2. Grounds of detention
  14.2.3. Procedural guarantees
  14.2.4. Derogations from the provisions
  14.3. Conclusions
  15. Equality before the law
  the right to a fair trial
  15.1. Recognition, equality, and access issues
  15.1.1. Recognition as a person before the law
  15.1.2. Lack of capacity to enter legal obligations
  15.1.3. Problems with defining `persons'
  15.1.4. Equality of persons before the law
  15.1.5. right of access to a court?
  15.2. Prohibition on retroactive penal legislation
  15.2.1. National and international crimes
  15.2.2. Defining crimes
  15.2.3. Examples of violations
  15.3. What are `courts and tribunals'?
  15.3.1. treaty-monitoring bodies?
  15.4. independent and impartial court
  15.4.1. Jurisprudence
  15.5. Presumption of innocence
  15.6. Minimum guarantees for criminal trials
  15.6.1. language of the trial and charges
  15.6.2. Adequate time and facilities to prepare and conduct a defence
  15.6.3. Trial in absentia
  15.6.4. Legal aid
  15.6.5. Trial within a reasonable time
  15.6.6. Public hearing
  15.6.7. Double jeopardy
  15.6.8. Appeal hearing
  15.7. Conclusions
  16. right to work
  16.1. right to work
  16.1.1. absolute right?
  16.1.2. duty incumbent on States
  16.1.3. Components of the right to work
  16.1.4. Freedom from arbitrary dismissal
  16.1.5. Equality
  16.2. right to just and favourable conditions of work and remuneration
  16.2.1. Conditions of work
  16.2.2. Working time and rest periods
  16.2.3. Holidays
  16.2.4. Remuneration
  16.2.5. Link to adequate standard of living
  16.3. right to equal pay for equal work
  16.4. Conclusions
  17. Freedom from torture; cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment
  17.1. hierarchy of treatment?
  17.1.1. inclusion of mental suffering
  17.2. Torture
  17.2.1. international position
  17.2.2. Inter-American system
  17.2.3. European system
  17.2.4. Threat of torture
  17.2.5. Reprisals
  17.2.6. Scientific and medical experimentation
  17.2.7. Compensation for victims
  17.3. Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  17.3.1. Corporal punishment
  17.3.2. Death-row phenomenon
  17.4. Prevention of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  17.4.1. international position
  17.4.2. regional position
  17.5. Emergency situations
  17.6. Conclusions
  18. right to self-determination
  18.1. right to self-determination
  18.2. origins of the right to self-determination
  18.2.1. After the First World War
  18.2.2. era of the League of Nations
  18.3. United Nations, decolonization, and self-determination
  18.4. Self-determination today
  18.4.1. Examples of non-colonial self-determination
  18.4.2. Secession
  18.4.3. Different covenants, different rights?
  18.4.4. Autonomy for minority and indigenous groups
  18.4.5. Free, prior, and informed consent
  18.4.6. Self-determination and the African Charter
  18.5. Claiming self-determination
  18.6. Conclusions
  19. Indigenous peoples' and minority rights
  19.1. Minority rights
  19.1.1. Background to minority rights
  19.1.2. need for minority protection
  19.1.3. Defining `minorities'
  19.1.4. scope of Art 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  19.1.5. Other UN initiatives
  19.1.6. Regional developments
  19.2. Indigenous peoples
  19.2.1. Historical issues
  19.2.2. Claims of indigenous peoples
  19.2.3. International developments
  19.2.4. Regional developments
  19.3. Conclusions
  20. Freedom of expression
  20.1. Freedom of expression
  20.2. Freedom of the press and media
  20.2.1. State-owned media
  20.2.2. Regional developments
  20.2.3. Link to human rights education
  20.3. Overlap with other rights (correspondence, privacy, association)
  20.4. Exceptions
  20.4.1. Propaganda for war or national, racial, or religious hatred
  20.4.2. War/public emergency
  20.4.3. National security/public order
  20.4.4. Public health and morals
  20.4.5. rights and reputations of others
  20.5. Conclusions
  21. right to education and human rights education
  21.1. right to education
  21.1.1. Access to education
  21.1.2. Nature of education
  21.1.3. Academic freedom
  21.1.4. United Nations' Special Rapporteur on the right to education
  21.2. right to human rights education
  21.2.1. Links to other human rights
  21.2.2. Achieving universal education on human rights
  21.2.3. Teaching non-discrimination
  21.2.4. United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education
  21.3. Conclusions
  22. Sustainable development and human rights
  22.1. right to development
  22.2. Millennium Development Goals
  22.3. Towards Agenda 2030
  22.4. Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development
  22.4.1. People: social development
  22.4.2. Planet: environmental rights
  22.4.3. Prosperity: economic development
  22.4.4. Peace
  22.5. UN Sustainable Development Goals
  22.5.1. Monitoring progress towards the SDCs
  22.5.2. Cross-cutting human rights themes
  22.5.3. Accountability
  22.5.4. Participation
  22.5. Conclusions
  23. Current issues: non-State actors
  23.1. Positive obligations to protect, respect, promote, and fulfil treaty obligations
  23.2. Non-State armed groups
  23.2.1. Private armed security firms
  23.3. Business and human rights
  23.3.1. ILO fundamental conventions
  23.3.2. UN Global Compact
  23.3.3. UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
  23.4. International, regional, and nongovernmental organizations
  23.4.1. United Nations
  23.4.2. Non-governmental organizations
  23.5. Conclusions.