Human Rights Matters Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions

Zusatztext "Mertus tackles a central but understudied issue: the contribution of national human rights institutions to the realization of internationally recognized human rights. In a series of lively and engaging European case-studies—Denmark, Germany, Northern Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Bosnia-Herzegovina—she provides not only new information about but valuable insight into the range of achievements and limitations of this increasingly popular mechanism for improving the realization of human rights." Informationen zum Autor Julie A. Mertus is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University. Her seven books include, The United Nations and Human Rights (2005) and Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004), which was named Human Rights Book of the Year by the American Political Science Association Human Rights Section. Klappentext Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies. Zusammenfassung Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Julie A. Mertus, Julie A Mertus
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.01.2009
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780804760942
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6094-2
• Pages: 240
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights; Politics / Current Events