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9780203928400 | Routledge, April 8, 2008, cover price $25.95
Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003â4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights. Updates include: Discussion of the recent intellectual challenges to the international human rights movement Examination of the establishment and functioning of the Human Rights Council and the Universal Review Process Evaluation of the developments in the area of the Responsibility to Protect and continued efforts to implement the right to development Inclusion of issues such as the push for compensation for slavery, experiments with democracy in a number of countries and the decisions of international judicial and human rights organs on conceptual and protection issues This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Global Institutions, International Law and Human Rights.
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9781138807143 | 2 edition (Routledge, June 11, 2015), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003â4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights.
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9781138807167 | 2 edition (Routledge, June 16, 2015), cover price $33.95
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9789004289024 | Martinus Nijhoff, May 22, 2015, cover price $194.00
Product Description: This book has emerged out of the author's experience as Director of an innovative peacemaking, peacekeeping and humanitarian initiative, the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, between 1992 and 1996. What was striking about this conference was the experiment of two full-time Co-Chairmen, one from the United Nations and one from the European Union, who laboured tirelessly for peace in different parts of the former Yugoslavia for three and a half years...read more
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9780415628846 | Routledge, July 13, 2013, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: International peace conferences, together, represent a substantial component of global institutions but until now there has been only scattered research, some on particular conferences, others on political, social, or economic interpretations of particular settlements or sets of settlements.
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9789004245891 | Martinus Nijhoff, November 21, 2014, cover price $174.00 | About this edition: This book has emerged out of the author's experience as Director of an innovative peacemaking, peacekeeping and humanitarian initiative, the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, between 1992 and 1996.
9780415628853 | Routledge, July 13, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: International peace conferences, together, represent a substantial component of global institutions but until now there has been only scattered research, some on particular conferences, others on political, social, or economic interpretations of particular settlements or sets of settlements.
Product Description: Human rights fact-finding is at the heart of efforts for the international protection of human rights. Gross violations of human rights are still a tragic feature of life in many parts of the world and governments responsible for them go to great lengths to hide them from detection and to avoid international scrutiny...read more
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9789004276871, titled "International Law and Fact-Finding in the Field of Human Rights: Revised and Edited Reprint" | Revised edition (Martinus Nijhoff, September 29, 2014), cover price $209.00 | About this edition: Human rights fact-finding is at the heart of efforts for the international protection of human rights.
Product Description: This unique book, one of the first of its kind, discusses how human rights actually featured in UN peace operations in the deadly conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1996. It is based on original materials in the possession of the author, who was Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslava from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Director of the Office of the UN Special Representative in charge of all peacemaking, peacekeeping, and humanitarian operations in the region...read more
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9789004202962, titled "Human Rights and Un Peace Operations: Yugoslavia" | Martinus Nijhoff, September 1, 2011, cover price $148.00 | About this edition: This unique book, one of the first of its kind, discusses how human rights actually featured in UN peace operations in the deadly conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1996.
Product Description: The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization. The UN was founded in the hope that lasting peace would be built on the foundations of human rights and economic and social progress. In 2006 the Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights Council as the principal UN body concerned with human rights...read more
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9780415583985 | Routledge, November 14, 2011, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization.
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9780415583992 | Routledge, November 7, 2011, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The UN Human Rights Council provides a detailed insight into this important organization.
Product Description: The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly 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...read more
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9780415548564, titled "Preventive Human Rights Strategies: Strategies in a World of New Threats and Challenges" | Routledge, April 15, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally.
Product Description: This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance. Albeit not exhaustive, the coverage extends to most of the monitoring instances available at intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations: complaints, fact-finding and investigative procedures, State reporting obligations, good offices actions, dialogue functions, human rights education, dissemination of human rights information, letter campaigns, and technical co-operation...read more
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9789004162365 | 2 revised edition (Martinus Nijhoff, August 31, 2009), cover price $282.00 | About this edition: This revised and updated collection is intended to serve as a thematic textbook on the institutions and procedures devoted to the national implementation of human rights and to the international monitoring of State performance.
Product Description: The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts and disasters...read more
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9780253351470 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag HammarskjAld a half-century ago.
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9780253219831 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago.
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9789004148475 | Martinus Nijhoff, February 1, 2006, cover price $244.00
Product Description: The implementation of economic, social and cultural rights is a most pressing item on the international human rights agenda. Millions of people go without food, health, shelter, education, work, social security, not because the resources are unavailable to provide for these basic human rights, but because societies are badly governed, or democracy is lacking, or the rule of law is absent, or simply because there is a failure of understanding about how to go about the practical implementation of these rights...read more
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9789004145627 | Martinus Nijhoff, August 30, 2005, cover price $335.00 | About this edition: The implementation of economic, social and cultural rights is a most pressing item on the international human rights agenda.
Product Description: One of the more promising developments in global efforts to uphold human rights over the past decade has been the growing role of national human rights institutions. A role for national institutions was foreseen by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as early as 1946 and since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 the Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Secretariat have sought to promote the role of such institutions...read more
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9789004145269 | Martinus Nijhoff, June 20, 2005, cover price $174.00 | About this edition: One of the more promising developments in global efforts to uphold human rights over the past decade has been the growing role of national human rights institutions.
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9789041118783 | Martinus Nijhoff, July 1, 2002, cover price $233.00
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9789041118189 | Martinus Nijhoff, June 1, 2002, cover price $178.00
Product Description: Ever since its creation, the United Nations has sought to protect as well as to promote human rights. Those who campaigned for decades for the establishment of the post of High Commissioner for Human Rights did so in the hope that the High Commissioner would spearhead the efforts of the United Nations and the international community to protect those at risk or whose rights are being violated...read more
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9789041118325 | Martinus Nijhoff, June 1, 2002, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: Ever since its creation, the United Nations has sought to protect as well as to promote human rights.
9789041118325 | Martinus Nijhoff, June 1, 2002, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: Ever since its creation, the United Nations has sought to protect as well as to promote human rights.
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9789024737598 | Martinus Nijhoff, December 1, 1989, cover price $232.00
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9789024719846 | Martinus Nijhoff, July 1, 1977, cover price $159.00
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