Negotiating sovereignty and human rights actors and issues in contemporary human rights politics /

• Other Authors: Shawki, Noha., Cox, Michaelene.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
• Subjects: Human rights.; Human rights workers.; Sovereignty.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights. > Political Freedom & Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights. > Political Freedom & Security; Electronic books.
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Providing an overview of institutional developments and innovations in human rights politics, this volume discusses some of the most important current and emerging human rights issues. It takes stock of the initiatives, policy responses and innovations of past years to identify some of the challenge...

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; PART I Actors, Institutions, and Institutional Innovations; 1 Redefining Sovereignty: Humanitarianism's Challenge to Sovereign Immunity; 2 Sovereignty Transformed? The Role of National Human Rights Institutions; 3 A New Actor in Human Rights Politics? Transgovernmental Networks of National Human Rights Institutions; 4 Universalism Meets Sovereignty at the International Criminal Court; 5 The Responsibility to Protect: Embracing Sovereignty and Human Rights.