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Author:   Claude Cahn
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Martinus Nijhoff
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.623kg
ISBN:  

9789004280335

ISBN 10:   9004280332
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   16 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Excerpt of table of contents: Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Sovereignty, Autonomy and Right 1.1 Introduction 1.2 National Sovereignty 1.3 National Sovereignty and Personal Autonomy 1.4 National Sovereignty and International Law 1.5 National Sovereignty and International Human Rights Law 1.6 National Sovereignty between Personal Autonomy and the International Human Rights Law Order 1.7 Recovering Autonomy 1.8 Core Dilemmas Chapter 2 Coercive Sterilization of Romani Women in the Czech and Slovak Republics 2.1 Czechoslovakia 2.2 Domestic Law 2.3 Sterilization as a Component of 'Roma Policy' in Czechoslovakia 2.4 The 1978 Charter 77 Action 2.5 The Pellar/Andrs Report 2.6 The Investigation by the Czechoslovak Prosecutors 2.7 Slovakia 2.8 The Czech Republic 2.9 Conclusion Chapter 3 Triple Helix: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Roma and Racial Discrimination 3.1 The Buckley/Chapman/Connors Jurisprudence 3.2 Expulsion 3.3 Discrimination 3.4 Pogrom 3.5 D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic 3.6 Munoz Diaz, and Sejdic and Finci 3.7 Subsequent Judgments on Other Thematic Issues 3.8 Absence 3.9 Some Implications Chapter 4 Identifying the Harm: Coercive Sterilization on Contested Interpretive Terrain 4.1 Extreme Harms 4.2 Informed Consent as a Core Principle of Human Rights in the Field of Bio-Medicine 4.3 The Council of Europe, Bio-medicine and Human Rights 4.4 Ruling on the Coercive Sterilization of Romani Women 4.5 The Court and International Law: Absorption, Refraction and Transformation of Norms 4.6 Conclusion Chapter 5 Social Forces and National, Regional and International Human Rights Processes 5.1 Theorizing Social Action in Human Rights 5.2 The Social Field 5.3 Civil Society 5.4 Attention by International and Regional Organisations 5.5 Implications for Social Action in Human Rights 5.6 Conclusions Conclusions; Summary; Bibliography; Index.

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Claude Cahn, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University, Nijmegen, is Human Rights Adviser, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has over twenty years of human rights experience, and is widely published.

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