Containing contributions by specialists from the intergovernmental and non-governmental worlds and voices of victim/survivors, the book critically reviews the international and regional human rights systems established over the past 50 years in terms of their effectiveness for the victims of human rights violations, and provides future directions for the promotion and protection of human rights.
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Yael Danieli, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, a victimologist, a traumatologist, and Director of the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children, Past President and United Nations Representative of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Elsa Stamatopoulou is Deputy to the Director, New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has been with the UN since 1979, seventeen years in the human rights area.
Clarence J. Dias is the President of the International Center for Law in Development, which is a Third World NGO concerned with human rights in the development process.
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In the fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international action has moved from human rights standard-setting and promotion to the protection of human rights through the development of a nexus of global,regional, and national mechanisms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human rights field presence, norms concerning indigenous, human rights field operations, thematic mechanisms, human rights presence, national human rights institutions, human rights unit, human rights education, international human rights treaties, human rights system, special rapporteur, forced evictions, international human rights standards, international human rights instruments, irregular migrants, women migrant workers, human rights training, treaty bodies, human rights component, including restitution, please provide details, human rights program, housing rights, country mechanisms, human rights bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, General Assembly, Security Council, New York, United States, World Conference, South Africa, African Charter, Amnesty International, International Covenant, European Convention, World War, International Responses, Baywood Publishing, Cold War, European Union, Optional Protocol, International Law Commission, Latin America, American Psychiatric Press, General Comment, General Conference, Victims Declaration, World Summit, American Convention New!
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In the fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international action has moved from human rights standard-setting and promotion to the protection of human rights through the development of a nexus of global,regional, and national mechanisms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
human rights field presence, norms concerning indigenous, human rights field operations, thematic mechanisms, human rights presence, national human rights institutions, human rights unit, human rights education, international human rights treaties, human rights system, special rapporteur, forced evictions, international human rights standards, international human rights instruments, irregular migrants, women migrant workers, human rights training, treaty bodies, human rights component, including restitution, please provide details, human rights program, housing rights, country mechanisms, human rights bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, General Assembly, Security Council, New York, United States, World Conference, South Africa, African Charter, Amnesty International, International Covenant, European Convention, World War, International Responses, Baywood Publishing, Cold War, European Union, Optional Protocol, International Law Commission, Latin America, American Psychiatric Press, General Comment, General Conference, Victims Declaration, World Summit, American Convention New!
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- Human Rights (University Casebook Series) by Gerald L. Neuman on 5 pages
- International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (Springer Series on Stress and Coping) by Yael Danieli on 5 pages
- Caring for Victims of Torture by James M. Jaranson on page 353, page 354, and page 355
- Honoring Human Rights by Alice Henkin on page 88, page 89, and page 379
- The Mental Health Consequences of Torture (Springer Series on Stress and Coping) by Ellen Gerrity on page 349, page 351, and page 352
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- Who Believes in Human Rights?: Reflections on the European Convention (Law in Context) by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour on page 14, page 263, and Back Matter
- Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar: Education, Health and Environment (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series) by Helen James in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff on page 49, and page 95
- Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry: (University Center for Human Values) by Michael Ignatieff on page 49, and page 95
- Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth: An Eastern and Southern African Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Internati) by John Hatchard on page 232, and Back Matter
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