International human rights institutions, tribunals, and courts /

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Imprint:Singapore : Springer, [2018]
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:International Human Rights, 2523-8841
International human rights.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12455764
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Other authors / contributors:Oberleitner, Gerd, editor.
ISBN:9789811052064
9811052069
9789811052071
9811052077
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2018).
Summary:This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so. It traces the rationale of setting up international institutions, courts, and tribunals with the aim of ensuring respect for international human rights law and presents their historic development, and critically analyzes their contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, it asks which promises old and new (and envisaged) human rights institutions hold for safeguarding human rights in light of continuing violations and recent global trends in human rights and politics. The first section presents institutions created within the framework of the United Nations. The second part of the volume assesses how international criminal tribunals have reframed human rights violations as individual criminal acts. The third part of the volume is devoted to established and emerging regional human rights bodies and courts around the world.
Other form:Printed edition: 9789811052057
Standard no.:10.1007/978-981-10-5206-4