Subject: New human rights textbook
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 24 1999 - 16:37:36 EDT
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From: Raija Hanski <rhanski@ra.abo.fi> via <hr-education@hrea.org>
via <piln@law.columbia.edu>
NEW PUBLICATION
An Introduction to the International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook
Second, revised edition, 1999
Edited by Raija Hanski and Markku Suksi
Published and distributed by the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi
University, Turku/Åbo, Finland
The book aims at providing a general and, at the same time, comprehensive
picture of the international protection of human rights. It is an
introduction which describes the main systems and standards and is
intended to be complemented by more specialized studies. The book will be
of particular interest to undergraduate students, but it may also be used
during separate human rights courses, by practitioner, by NGO workers and
activists and by all those interested in human rights.
In addition to the updated versions of the chapters included in the first
edition (published in 1997), the second revised edition contains
completely new chapters dealing with human rights in the wider UN system,
the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN human
rights field operations.
Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. What are human rights?; by Marek Piechowiak
2. Human dignity and human rights; by Jerzy Zajadlo
3. Internationalization of human rights and their juridization; by Krzysztof
Drzewicki
4. Categories and beneficiaries of human rights; by Allan Rosas and Martin
Scheinin
PART II: The UNITED NATIONS: THE TREATY-BASED AND CHARTER-BASED PROCEDURES
5. The UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; by
Krzysztof Drzewicki
6. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; by Manfred
Nowak
7. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; by
Matthew Craven
8. Special human rights treaties; by Cees Flinterman and Catherine Henderson
9. Extra-conventional standard-setting and implementation in the field of
human rights; by Cees Flinterman
PART III: OTHER UNITED NATIONS ACTION IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS
10. Human rights in the wider UN system; by Anne Gallagher
11. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; by Markus G.
Schmidt
12. The standard-setting and supervisory system of the ILO; by Klaus Samson
and Kenneth Schindler
13. UNESCO and human rights; by Fons Coomans
14. The position of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in
the human rights field; by Sigrun I. Skogly
15. United Nations human rights field operations; by Anne Gallagher
PART IV: EUROPEAN SYSTEMS
16. Promotion and protection of human rights within the European
arrangements; by J. G. Merrills
17. The European Convention on Human Rights; by J. G. Merrills
18. The European Social Charter; by David Harris
19. The OSCE and human rights; by Maria Amor Martin Estébanez
20. The European Union and human rights; by Lorna Woods
PART V: EXTRA-EUROPEAN SYSTEMS
21. The OAS system for the protection of human rights; by Harmen van der
Wilt and Viviana Krsticevic
22. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights; by Cees Flinterman and
Catherine Henderson
PART VI: NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
23. Non-governmental actors in the field of human rights; by Rachel Brett
PART VII: IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
24. International human rights in national law; by Martin Scheinin
25. International mechanisms and procedures for implementation; by Martin
Scheinin
Appendix: Major human rights NGOs; compiled by Rachel Brett
Table of Treaties
Subject Index
468 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 952-12-0247-5
Price (including VAT 8%): 270 FIM / 45,41 euro. (Approx. 50 USD).
Order from:
Institute for Human Rights
Åbo Akademi University
Gezeliusgatan 2
20500 Turku/Åbo
Finland
tel. 358-2-2154324
fax: 358-2-2154699
e-mail: raija.hanski@abo.fi
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