Global Human Rights InstitutionsISBN: 978-0-7456-3438-8
Hardcover
248 pages
December 2007, Polity
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- The first comprehensive introduction to global human rights
institutions
- With a preface by Conor Gearty, one of the world’s
leading scholars of human rights
- Analyses the function of global human rights institutions and
discusses the challenges and paradoxes of
‘institutionalizing’ human rights
- Examines UN institutions with a human rights mandate, the
process of ‘mainstreaming’ human rights, international
courts which adjudicate human rights, and non-governmental human
rights organizations
- Accessible and clearly written, this book is an ideal reference tool for all students and scholars of human rights and international politics