INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW by Mark Gibney ( 9781442249103 )

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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
RETURNING TO UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES

By:

Mark Gibney

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Publisher:

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Pub. date:

13 August, 2015

Edition:

Second Edition

Pages:

174

Description:

This clear and compelling text offers a vastly different approach to human rights. Arguing that not only are human rights universal, but so are the obligations to protect these rights, Mark Gibney concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on.

Synopsis:

This clear and compelling text confronts the dominant thinking on human rights, taking issue with the notion adopted by all states and even many academics that human rights obligations extend no further than their own territorial borders. Mark Gibney critiques cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights, arguing for a much broader reading of state responsibility on the basis that current law misses most of the ways in which states fail to protect human rights standards. Finally, Gibney takes up the issue of human rights enforcement, unquestionably the weakest aspect of international human rights law. He proposes several practical models that could begin to provide victims the "effective remedy" promised by the law itself. The book concludes that there is a moral and legal imperative to return to the universal principles human rights were founded on. And rather than witnessing the end of human rights-as some have suggested-we should see our times as the true beginning.

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