Preventive Human Rights Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780415548557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 176 str.

Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Opis

This book identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future. In the future, preventive human rights strategies will need to be developed to address human rights aspects of problems such as the following:

• environmental changes
• pandemics
• mass migration
• global poverty and pervasive inequality
• inter-state conflicts
• terrorism, including WMD terrorism;
• gross violations of human rights

We are already in a quite different world in the 21st century and human rights thinking will need to evolve to meet its needs. The book sets out the changing problematic and makes the case for new human rights thinking.

Spis treści

1. Threats, Challenges and the Responsibility to Prevent  2. Obligations to Prevent Under International Human Rights Treaties  3. The Preventive Role of National Human Rights Institutions  4. Regional Preventive Strategies  5. Global Preventive Strategies  6. Preventive Human Rights Diplomacy  7. The Preventive Roles of Peacekeepers, Observers, and Human Rights Monitors  8. Preventive Strategies of NGOs  9. The Preventive Role of International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Bertrand G. Ramcharan is a Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln’s Inn and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY, USA. His publications include Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (2008)