Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors
Author:   Andrew Clapham (, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198298151


Pages:   648
Publication Date:   02 March 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Andrew Clapham (, Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.090kg
ISBN:  

9780198298151


ISBN 10:   0198298153
Pages:   648
Publication Date:   02 March 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Introduction 1: Old Objections and New Approaches 2: Thinking Responsibly About the Subject of Subjects 3: Characteristics of International Human Rights Law 4: The United Nations 5: The World Trade Organization and the European Union 6: Corporations and Human Rights 7: Non-State Actors in Times of Armed Conflict 8: Selected UN Human Rights Treaties 9: Regional Human Rights Bodies 10: National Legal Orders 11: Dignity and Democracy 12: Complexity, Complicity, and Complementarity

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..represents a long-awaited, systematic, and well-grounded contribution, which transcends the more narrow academic debate to impinge on the political one. EUI Reviews Andrew Clapham's book provides a realistic, comprehensive and excellently documented portrait of the changing status of protection of human rights against the novel threats posed by non-state actors. EUI Review ..a thoughtful and insightful book..a brave piece of human rights advocacy..The book is the subject of prodigious research. No document is left unexamined, no statement unread. Every source of international law is invoked... Global Law Books


..represents a long-awaited, systematic, and well-grounded contribution, which transcends the more narrow academic debate to impinge on the political one. EUI Reviews Andrew Clapham's book provides a realistic, comprehensive and excellently documented portrait of the changing status of protection of human rights against the novel threats posed by non-state actors. EUI Review ..a thoughtful and insightful book..a brave piece of human rights advocacy..The book is the subject of prodigious research. No document is left unexamined, no statement unread. Every source of international law is invoked... Global Law Books


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Andrew Clapham worked as the Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York from 1991 to 1997. Since 1997 he has been teaching human rights law and public international law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He has worked as an Adviser to the UN High Commissioners for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Sergio Vieira de Mello. His other published work includes: Human Rights in the Private Sphere (1993) and International Human Rights Lexicon (2005) (with Susan Marks). He is an academic associate member of Matrix Chambers in London.

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