Author: Human Rights Watch
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Keywords: rights, human, poverty, watch, books, subsistence, civil, relationship, political, indivisible, survival
Number of Pages: 82
Published: 1992-09
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 1564320847
ISBN-13: 9781564320841
Authors:Lance A. Compa, Stephen F. Diamond,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: rights, human, studies, pennsylvania, international, labor, trade
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-08-30
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 081221871X
ISBN-13: 9780812218718
Labor rights have traditionally been a concern of labor law scholars and practitioners whose work concentrates exclusively on domestic developments. In the past decade, however, the globalization of investment and production has expanded the bounds of labor rights discourse.Contributors to this volume provide the first comprehensive view of labor rights in the international system of commerce. They consider the avenues open to worker rights claims in the global economy under international human rights instruments, U.S. trade laws, free trade agreements, labor rights litigation, and corporate c
Authors:Paul J Nelson, Ellen Dorsey,
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Keywords: rights, human, ngos, advancing, development, strategies, advocacy, changing, new
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1589012046
ISBN-13: 9781589012042
After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at satisfying basic economic needs. Both approaches had distinctive methods, missions, and emphases. In the 1980s and 90s, however, the dividing line began to blur. In the first book to track the growing intersection and even overlap of human rights and development NGOs, Paul Nelson and Ellen Dorsey introduce a concept they call ’new r
Author: Human Rights Watch Staff
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Keywords: rights, international, covenant, political, compliance, civil, report, violations, united, states, human
Number of Pages: 19
Published: 1994-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1564321223
ISBN-13: 9781564321220
Authors:Jonathan Cooper, Marshall-Williams,
Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
Keywords: rights, human, seriestputting, justice, practice, debate, parliamentary, legislating, bill
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2000-09
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 1841130982
ISBN-13: 9781841130989
An invaluable compendium of the Parliamentary debates on one of the most far reaching pieces of legislation this century - The Human Rights Act 1998. It is essential reading for those taking cases under the Act or interested in the development of human rights. As well as setting out the Government’s intention for each section of the Act in an accessible format,this book is also a good read. Key issues include: Pepper v Hart statements on interpretation of the Human Rights Act; Underlying principles of the Human Rights Act
Author: Monica Feria Tinta
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: rights, human, vulnerable, edge, international, studies, protecting, landmark, inter, american, court, rulings, child
Number of Pages: 671
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 9004165134
ISBN-13: 9789004165137
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It reviews all decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein making them available to practitioners, academics and students of this area of the law.
Author: Colin J. Harvey
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Keywords: rights, human, perspective, law, agents, community, change
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2006-06
List price: $67.00
ISBN-10: 1841134465
ISBN-13: 9781841134468
There has been a considerable focus in the last few years on the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its real and potential impact on judges and lawyers. Much has been written on the implications of the new legislation for a variety of areas of law. With the rising level of case-law the emphasis is now turning to the impact of the legislation on specific areas of social life. In this volume the focus is on the practice of human rights and how they are enforced in reality. There is much discussion in the literature of a human rights culture but how precisely is such a culture to be created
