Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights

Actors and Issues in Contemporary Human Rights Politics

Shawki, Noha; Cox, Michaelene

Taylor & Francis Ltd

07/2009

250

Dura

Inglês

9780754677192

15 a 20 dias

Presenting an overview of institutional developments and innovations in human rights politics, this book discusses some of the most important human rights issues. It focuses on actors and/or issues that are outside the mainstream of international human rights politics.
Contents: Introduction, Noha Shawki and Michaelene Cox; Part I Actors, Institutions, and Institutional Innovations: Redefining sovereignty: humanitarianism's challenge to sovereign immunity, Anne L. Clunan; Sovereignty transformed? The role of national human rights institutions, Sonia Cardenas; A new actor in human rights politics? Transgovernmental networks of national human rights institutions, Noha Shawki; Universalism meets sovereignty at the International Criminal Court, Benjamin N. Schiff; 'The responsibility to protect': embracing sovereignty and human rights, Cristina G. Badescu; Human rights and soft law: alternative paths for new challenges, Daniel B. Braaten; Judging truth: the contributions of truth commissions in post-conflict environments, Eric Brahm. Part II Current Issues in International Human Rights: Documenting human rights abuses among the diaspora: lessons learned from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Patricia B. Minikon and Susan Shepler; Viewing the millennium development goals through the prisms of IR theory: an intersection of human rights and state interests, Michaelene Cox; Human rights, global ecopolitics, and contested landscapes of sovereignty, Peter J. Stoett; The transnational effort for disability rights: the marriage of disability rights to human rights, Kenneth R. Rutherford; Small arms, sovereign states and human rights, Suzette R. Grillot; Index.
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