Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk
Title | Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Alice M. Nah |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2020-11-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429687990 |
This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights. Drawing upon the experiences of human rights defenders who continue to persevere in their activism in Indonesia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia, this edited collection examines the ways in which formal protection mechanisms by state and civil society actors intersect with self-protection measures and informal protection initiatives by families and friends. It highlights that protection practices are most effective when they are designed to address the specific risks that human rights defenders face (which are gendered and intersectional); reflect how defenders understand ‘risk’, ‘security’ and ‘protection’; and are appropriate for the dynamic sociopolitical and legal contexts in which defenders operate. This book proposes ways in which the protection of human rights defenders at risk should be reimagined and practised. This book will be a thought-provoking guide for students and scholars of politics, international relations, law and human rights, as well as to practitioners engaged in the protection of human rights defenders at risk.
Human Rights at Risk
Title | Human Rights at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Salvador Santino F. Regilme |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2022-06-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 197882842X |
Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century. The book focuses on international institutions, thematic blind spots in policy-making, and the role of the United States as a global and domestic actor in human rights protection.
New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice
Title | New Technologies for Human Rights Law and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Molly K. Land |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1107179637 |
Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.
Rights at Risk
Title | Rights at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Shipler |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307957624 |
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy. Shipler demonstrates how the violations tamper with America’s safety in unexpected ways. While a free society takes risks to observe rights, denying rights creates other risks. A suspect’s right to silence may deprive police of a confession, but a forced confession is often false. Honoring the right to a jury trial may be cumbersome, but empowering prosecutors to coerce a guilty plea means evidence goes untested, the charge unproved. An investigation undisciplined by the Bill of Rights may jail the innocent and leave the guilty at large and dangerous. Weakened constitutional rules allow the police to waste precious resources on useless intelligence gathering and frivolous arrests. The criminal courts act less as impartial adjudicators than as conveyor belts from street to prison in a system that some disillusioned participants have nicknamed “McJustice.” There is, always, a human cost. Shipler shows us victims of torture and abuse—not only suspected terrorists at the hands of the CIA but also murder suspects interrogated by the Chicago police. We see a poverty-stricken woman forced to share an attorney with her drug dealer boyfriend and sentenced to six years in prison when the conflict of interest turns her lawyer against her. We meet high school students suspended for expressing unwelcome political opinions. And we see a pregnant immigrant deported, after years of living legally in the country, for allegedly stealing a lottery ticket. Often shocking, yet ultimately idealistic, Rights at Risk shows us the shadows of America where the civil liberties we rightly take for granted have been eroded—and summons us to reclaim them.
Human Rights Indicators
Title | Human Rights Indicators PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UN |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789211541984 |
"The basic structure of the Guide is geared towards supporting a systematic and comprehensive translation of universal human rights standards into indicators that are contextually relevant. This approach favours using objective information which is easily available, or can be collected, for monitoring the national implementation of human rights. This requires the reader to: [1] Understand the conceptual approach so as to identify indicators, after developing a preliminary understanding of the human rights normative framework; [2] Explore the alternative data-generating methods to populate the selected indicators; and [3] Apply and interpret the numbers that go with an indicator so as to build an assessment on the state of human rights."--Page 8.
World Report 2020
Title | World Report 2020 PDF eBook |
Author | Human Rights Watch |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 782 |
Release | 2020-01-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1644210061 |
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Human Rights and Climate Change
Title | Human Rights and Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Humphreys |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0521762766 |
This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.