International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles

International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles
ISBN-10
0742556301
ISBN-13
9780742556300
Series
International Human Rights Law
Category
Human rights
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Mark Gibney

Description

This clear and compelling book challenges the reader to rethink the entire basis for human rights, providing a vastly different vision of a way forward out of our current quagmire. Mark Gibney persuasively advocates for a much broader reading of the law on state responsibility, arguing that current law misses most of the ways in which states fail to protect human rights and police violations. Calling for other measures to provide victims the "effective remedy" that international human rights law promises, Gibney sets forth a series of practical steps that would profoundly change the nature of human rights protection.

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