Making Human Rights a Reality (eBook)

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton (Autor)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4628-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton is a professor in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. She is the author of Forced to Be Good and recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award.

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In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for international law to have much impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk. Emilie Hafner-Burton argues that more progress is possible if human rights promoters work strategically with the group of states that have dedicated resources to human rights protection. These human rights "e;stewards"e; can focus their resources on places where the tangible benefits to human rights are greatest. Success will require setting priorities as well as engaging local stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions. To date, promoters of international human rights law have relied too heavily on setting universal goals and procedures and not enough on assessing what actually works and setting priorities. Hafner-Burton illustrates how, with a different strategy, human rights stewards can make international law more effective and also safeguard human rights for more of the world population.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abusive behavior • Accountability • activism • Advisory Opinion • Advocacy • African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights • African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights • African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights • Allegation • Amnesty International • Censorship • Children's rights • Civil and Political Rights • civil liberties • Civil Rights • Civil Society • Coercion • Commission on Human Rights (Philippines) • complaints mechanisms • conflict • Consideration • Constitutions • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women • Cost–benefit analysis • credibility • Crime • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Criminology • Criticism • cultural rights • dehumanization • Democracy • Democratization • Deterrence • Diplomacy • Domestic politics • Economic Sanctions • Employment • European Convention on Human Rights • European Court of Human Rights • First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • foreign policy • Freedom House • freedom of speech • Governance • Government • Guideline • human behavior • Human Rights • human rights abuses • human rights commissions • Human Rights Council • human rights promotion • Human Rights Protection • Human Rights Violations • Human Rights Watch • Ideology • illiberalism • implementation • impunity • Indigenous peoples • insider politics • Institution • Intelligence • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights • Inter-American Court of Human Rights • International Bill of Human Rights • International Community • international court • International Court of Justice • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights • International Criminal Court • international criminal law • International Human Rights • International human rights instruments • International human rights law • International Law • international legal reform • International Organization • International Relations • Jurisdiction • Law enforcement • lawyer • Legal Aid • legal customs • Legal instrument • Legal system • Legislation • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (political) • Leverage • liberal democracy • Localization • Member State • Member states of the United Nations • military intervention • Myanmar • National Government (United Kingdom) • National Human Rights Institutions • National interest • National Law • National policy • Non-governmental organization • Nongovernmental Organizations • Nonstate actors • Obedience (human behavior) • obstacle • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights • ombudsman • Ombudsmen • penalties • perpetrator • Philip Alston • Police • Political dissent • Political prisoner • Political Rights • Political Science • Politics • Poverty • Procedural law • professionalization • Protest • psychological superiority • Public International Law • Public Policy • punishment • Racism • ratification • rationalization • Reform • Resource Allocation • Responsibility • Rewards • Routinization • scholarly research • security forces • Slavery • State Power • Statistical Research • Stewardship • steward states • terrorism • Torture • Trade Union • Treaties • Treaty • Triage • Tribunals • United Nations • United Nations Convention against Torture • united nations general assembly • United Nations Human Rights Council • United States Department of State • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Universalism • UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights • Violence • war • War Crime
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4628-5 / 1400846285
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4628-3 / 9781400846283