Overview

The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and establishing mechanisms to verify State compliance. Other groups have not been the focus of States’ standard-setting endeavours, but their protection still falls within the scope of human rights treaties of general application and the mandate of their respective monitoring bodies. This book takes an innovative approach to the investigation of the international legal protection of vulnerable groups. Rather than examining the situation of a number of vulnerable groups and applicable international or regional conventions, this book reviews the overall scope of the protection of vulnerable groups under International Human Rights Law. This book conceptualizes the protection of vulnerable groups as an underlying and essential component of International Human Rights Law through a systematic and comprehensive analysis of international human rights law instruments and relevant practice of international and regional human rights monitoring bodies. The book illuminates how human rights monitoring bodies foster protection of vulnerable groups and their members at the domestic level, and underscores and assesses vulnerability paradigms these bodies have elaborated. The book also puts forward a legal definition of vulnerable groups. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international human rights law.

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Author:   Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367266837

ISBN 10:   0367266830
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   01 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Introducing the International Legal Protection of Vulnerable Groups 2. The Legal Protection of Vulnerable Groups as an Integral Component of the Scope of International Human Rights Law 3. The Practice of UN Treaty Bodies and Thematic UN Special Procedures Relevant to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups 4. The Practice of The Committee On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Rights of the Child Relevant to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups 5. Regional Trends in the Protection of Vulnerable Groups and Their Members 6. The Vulnerability Paradigm of The European Court of Human Rights 7. The Practice of Domestic Courts Relevant to Vulnerable Groups and Persons 8. Conclusive Reflections Conclusions

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Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton is Adjunct Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law, USA.

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