The delivery of human rights : essays in honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley / / edited by Geoff Gilbert, Françoise Hampson and Clara Sandoval

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817772503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-91952-X; 1-282-78102-2; 9786612781025; 0-203-84435-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GilbertGeoff <1958->; HampsonFrançoise; Sandoval VillalbaClara; RodleyNigel S
• Disciplina: 341.4/8
• Soggetti: Human rights
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Common acknowledgements and thanks; List of contributors; Table of cases; Table of treaties; Table of statutes; The common introduction; 1 Deriving concrete entitlements from abstract rights; 2 United Nations Charter-based procedures for addressing human rights violations: Historical practice, reform, and future implications; 3 Holding pharmaceutical companies to account: A UN Special Rapporteur's mission to GlaxoSmithKline; 4 Reform of the UN Human Rights Treaty Body System: Locating the Dublin Statement; 5 The OPCAT at 50; 6 Redressing non-pecuniary damages of torture survivors: The practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights7 A lighter shade of black?: 'Secret detention' and the UN Disappearances Convention; 8 The scope of the extra-territorial applicability of international human rights law; 9 Implementing protection: What refugee law can learn from IDP law . . . and vice versa; 10 Still waiting for the goods to arrive: The delivery of human rights to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; 11 From Bangladesh to Responsibility to Protect: The legality and implementation criteria for humanitarian interventionIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: The Delivery of Human Rights reflects on two overlapping issues in international human rights law: how can existing norms be better implemented and effected, and how can other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as to provide an improved delivery of those norms. Rather than simply looking at the content of the rights, this book will also explore how the framers' intention that individuals benefit from the norms can be achieved.The book is written and published in honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley KBE. It celebrates his career as an acade