Product Description: What role do human rights play in the development of regional organizations? What human rights obligations do states assume upon joining regional bodies? Regional Protection of Human Rights, Second Edition is the first text of its kind devoted to the European, Inter-American and African systems for the protection of human rights...read more

With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. By illuminating human rights theory and the institutions that can be employed to meet environmental goals, this book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects, to the creation of a new human rights, to a clean environment.

Product Description: This long-awaited revision presents a refreshing new alternative for students and instructors. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Problems of Law, Policy, and Practice, Fourth Edition, takes a problem-oriented approach to covering all global and regional human rights systems as they currently operate, along with a discussion of the theoretical foundations of human rights, US foreign policy and human rights, and key current issues...read more

<p> <b>International Human Rights: Documentary Supplement</b> is an essential stand-alone reference for anyone teaching or practicing in this subject area. A compilation of the major global and regional texts on human rights and humanitarian law, it presents most of the texts in their entirety, with preambular and final provisions included. </p> <p> <b>These documents include not only United Nations human rights treaties, but also:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>Key ILO and UNESCO documents </b> </li> <li> <b>The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court</b> </li> <li> Extracts from the <b>1949 Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war and protection of civilians </b> </li> <li> <b>The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights</b> </li> <li> Regional materials, including <b>human rights treaties</b> of the <b>Council of Europe</b>, the <b>Organization of American States</b>, and the <b>African Union</b> </li> <li> <b>The 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples </b> </li> <li> <b>The Arab Charter on Human Rights </b> </li> <li> <b>United States legislation</b> linking economic and military assistance to human rights </li> <li> <b>A companion CD containing numerous additional materials, including:</b> <ul> <li> Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights </li> <li> Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture </li> <li> Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child </li> <li> Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities </li> <li> Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners </li> <li> Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty </li> <li> Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: Genocide has been with us since the beginning of history and is a key element in the study of world history at nearly every level. The most widely studied and catastrophic examples are, however, historically close to the present day: the Nazi Holocaust, "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, tribal warfare in Rwanda and more...read more