Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups and Human Rights

David Weissbrodt, Mary Rumsey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

736 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84980-392-2 (ISBN)

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This insightful volume addresses human rights from the perspective of those groups whose rights are especially vulnerable to abuse, with particular reference to stateless or internally-displaced persons, linguistic, cultural and sexual minorities and disabled people.

Edited by the late David Weissbrodt, formerly Regents Professor and Fredrikson and Byron Professor of Law and Mary Rumsey, Willamette University, US

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction David Weissbrodt and Mary Rumsey

PART I NON-CITIZENS AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
A Refugees
1. Tom J. Farer (1995), ‘How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions and State Practice’

B Asylum Seekers
2. Jacqueline Bhabha (2002), ‘Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights’

C Migrant Workers
3. Ryszard Cholewinski (2007–2008), ‘The Human and Labor Rights of Migrants: Visions of Equality’

D Stateless People
4. David Weissbrodt and Clay Collins (2006), ‘The Human Rights of Stateless Persons’

E Internally Displaced Persons
5. Walter Kälin (1998), ‘The Guiding Principles on International Displacement – Introduction’

F Non-citizens Generally
6. David Weissbrodt and Stephen Meili (2010), ‘Human Rights and Protection of Non-citizens: Whither Universality and Indivisibility of Rights?’

PART II LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL AND SEXUAL MINORITIES
A Generally
7. Nigel S. Rodley (1995), ‘Conceptual Problems in the Protection of Minorities: International Legal Developments’

B Indigenous Peoples
8. Robert T. Coulter (2009), ‘The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Historic Change in International Law’
9. Elsa Stamatopoulou (1994), ‘Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations: Human Rights as a Developing Dynamic’

C Gays and Lesbians
10. Douglas Sanders (2010), ‘Out at the UN’
11. Suzanne M. Marks (2006), ‘Global Recognition of Human Rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People’

D Linguistic Minorities
12. Robert Dunbar (2001), ‘Minority Language Rights in International Law’

PART III PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
A HIV / AIDS
13. Ellen M. Walker (2007), ‘The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and Human Rights: A Continuum Approach’

B The Elderly
14. Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón and Claudia Martin (2003), ‘The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Persons’

C Children
15. Rita Shackel (2003), ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Review of its Successes and Future Directions’

D Mental Disabilities
16. Lawrence O. Gostin and Lance Gable (2004), ‘The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities: A Global Perspective on the Application of Human Rights Principles to Mental Health’

E Disabilities Generally
17. Michael Ashley Stein (2007), ‘Disability Human Rights’

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2011
Reihe/Serie	Human Rights Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84980-392-7 / 1849803927
ISBN-13	978-1-84980-392-2 / 9781849803922
Zustand	Neuware