National Security, Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?

Informationen zum Autor Myriam Feinberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa! Israel. She was previously teaching and conducting research at Tel Aviv University! Israel! and King's College London! UK. Laura Niada-Avshalom is Learning Adviser at the University at Westminster! London! UK.Brigit Toebes is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen! The Netherlands. Zusammenfassung This book examines the complicated relationships between national security and human rights, and between public health and human rights. It was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: National security and public health: exceptions to human rights? 1. International counterterrorism – national security and human rights: conflicts of norms or checks and balances? 2. Protecting ‘national security’ whistleblowers in the Council of Europe: an evaluation of three approaches on how to balance national security with freedom of expression 3. Resisting accountability: transitional justice in the post-9/11 United States 4. From the barrier to refugee law: national security’s transformation from a balancing right to a background element in the realms of Israeli constitutionalism 5. The use of incapacitating chemical agent weapons in law enforcement 6. Human rights and public health: towards a balanced relationship 7. WHO International Health Regulations and human rights: from allusions to inclusion 8. Some scepticism on the right to health: the case of the provision of medicines

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• Authors: Myriam (University of Haifa Feinberg
• Assisted by: Myriam Feinberg (Editor), Feinberg Myriam (Editor), Laura Niada-Avshalom (Editor), Niada-Avshalom Laura (Editor), Brigit Toebes (Editor), Toebes Brigit (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138309067
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30906-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Sociology, LAW / General, Society & culture: general, LAW / International, Health & personal development, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Jurisprudence & general issues, Society and culture: general, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Jurisprudence and general issues