The handbook of reparations

This handbook is provides a broad range of essential information about past experiences, with massive reparations programs as well as normative guidance for future practice. It examines in detail reparations programs in different parts of the world; includes thematic papers on topics that frequently come ...

International Human Rights Law

International law is a social construct crafted by human endeavour to achieve or at least contribute to the achievement of goals perceived to be valuable or necessary to effective social relations. In effect, international law is no more than a facilitative process and so cannot ...

International Human Rights and humanitarian Law

treaties, cases and analysis

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal instruments and case law governing the substantive and procedural dimensions of international human rights and humanitarian law, including economic, social, and cultural rights. The book also discusses the ...

La tutela internazionale dei Diritti Umani

norme, garanzie, prassi

L'opera si propone di illustrare i principali strumenti giuridici internazionali, a carattere universale e regionale, che hanno per oggetto la tutela dei diritti umani fondamentali. L'analisi del contenuto di tali strumenti viene effettuata dedicando particolare attenzione alla prassi degli Stati e alla giurisprudenza ...

Torturas y abuso de poder

El presente volumen de Desafío(s), Torturas y abuso de poder, analiza en profundidad y documenta un tema que por desgracia sigue siendo de la más candente actualidad ya que, en todos los ángulos del planeta y mediante los más aberrantes abusos de poder, se ...

Global justice

Global justice has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. Whilst half of the world's population continue to live on less than $2 per day, there are growing demands for a world where democracy, development and security are permanent features in ...

Gender, culture and Human Rights

reclaiming universalism

In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists have questioned the very premises upon which the international human rights movement is based. Rather than abandoning human ...

Nuevos retos de los derechos humanos

En este libro se abordan aquellas otras cuestiones que son específicas de la etapa más reciente de nuestra historia, cuestiones como el multiculturalismo, la globalización, la justicia penal internacional o los llamados derechos de tercera y cuarta generación y, dentro de ellos, toda la problemática ...

Europa

derechos, culturas

uropa vive un proceso acelerado de incremento de la multicultu-ralidad, por factores exógenos #los flujos migratorios# y endógenos (las minorías nacionales, culturales, religiosas}, a los que hay que añadir el fenómeno de los pueblos sin Estado que reclaman reconocimiento. En ese escenario, las reivindicaciones de ...

Justice beyond borders

a global political theory

"Justice Beyond Borders" examines which political principles should govern global politics. It explores the ethical issues that arise at the global level and addresses questions such as: are there universal values? If so, what are they? What human rights, if any, are there? Are there ...

Corporal punishment of children

a Human Rights violation

The core of this book is a detailed analysis of the status of corporal punishment of children, including (reasonable) spankings by parents, under international human rights law. The analysis leads compellingly to the conclusion that such punishment is indeed a human rights violation, consonant with ...

Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos

INDICE: Introducción. Abstract. I. La condición del individuo en el derecho Internacional. II. El Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos: del clásico al actual. III. La protección internacional de los Derechos Humanos en el plano universal: la obra de la ONU. IV. La protección internacional ...

The treatment of prisoners

european standards

At the start of the 21st century, some 2 million Europeans were detained against their will in prisons, police stations, mental health institutions or other detention centres. It is generally recognised that protection against the arbitrary deprivation of liberty and the prevention of ill-treatment reflect ...

Desafíos actuales a los Derechos Humanos

reflexiones sobre el derecho a la paz

Las guerras continúan asolando nuestro mundo. Todos los días en los medios de comunicación leemos como muchos seres humanos inocentes perecen a causa de intereses estratégicos, económicos y políticos de líderes mundiales a los que sólo parece preocupar la consecución de sus propios fines y ...

Transnational corporations and Human Rights

This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved. It first examines the responsibility of States in controlling transnational corporations, emphasizing both the limits imposed by the protection of the rights of ...

Manifiesto para una democracia de la tierra

justicia, sostenibilidad y paz

Voz destacada de las luchas por la justicia global, Vandana Shiva es, además de doctora en ciencias físicas, una activa ecologista de renombre mundial. En La Democracia de la Tierra, Shiva nos pone al día de diversos frentes de lucha sobre los que ha contribuido ...

International prosecution of Human Rights crimes

The demand for accountability for human rights violations is heard throughout the world as never before. This volume explores current developments in the prosecution of human rights crimes on the national and international level. Experts from several countries discuss relevant topics from the academic debate ...

La fundamentación de los derechos de los niños

modelos de reconocimiento y protección

En este libro se estudia el fundamento de los derechos de los niños. ara ello se analiza en profundidad los que han sido y son sus principales modelos de reconocimiento y protección. El estudio y la reflexión crítica que se realiza en este libro de ...

Prácticas de Derecho internacional de los Derechos Humanos

La creación en 2004 de la AEDIDH (Asociación Española para el Desarrollo y la Aplicación del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos) obedeció a una necesidad ampliamente sentida en la sociedad española: coordinar e impulsar los todavía escasos esfuerzos existentes tanto en el ámbito universitario ...

Human Rights and religion

the islamic headscarf debate in Europe

The debate on multiculturalism and human rights in Europe was reignited in 2004 by the Islamic headscarf ban in France. The legal and political tensions thrown up by this debate are now being witnessed in many European states. The place of religion in schools in ...