Product Description: Human rights occupy a key place in international law and relations. Understanding their significance involves knowing what the current guarantees of human rights are, and how the arrangements for protecting them work. This text offers a broad survey outlining the main human rights instruments and describing how they are implemented in the United Nations, through regional institutions, in specialized agencies and elsewhere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Offers a detailed description of how the European Convention on Human Rights originated and has been augmented, and what its provisions mean in practice and when they can be used. At the same time, the contribution of the Strasbourg system to the ideal of a democratic Europe is examined...read more

Product Description: The "European Yearbook promotes the scientific study of nineteen European supranational organisations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Each volume contains a detailed survey of the history, structure and yearly activities of each organisation and an up-to-date chart providing a clear overview of the member states of each organisation...read more