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This book offers a fresh approach to human rights by analyzing the role of institutional checks and balances, governmentalism and system's approach, intended for the prevention of human rights violations, the enforcement of human rights norms and rules, and important actors such as International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO), and domestic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The book presents case studies that offer innovative, political, historical, and social perspectives on how the International Human Rights Regime (IHRG) is practiced. It critically examines the interpretation, inconsistency, and application of the human rights norms in the Global South, and shows how the national mobilization of human rights is directly affected by the interdependence existing between the national and the transnational levels.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, and more broadly of comparative politics, international law, global governance, international and nongovernmental organizations.
List of contents
Introduction: Human rights, Interdependence and Checks and Balances in Global South Politics Part 1: Theoretical framework and principles 1. The International Human Rights Regime and Checks and Balances in the Global South 2. Truth Commissions and Tribunals in the Global South: Contributions to Transitional Justice Theory 3. Interdependence, Checks and Balances and Human Rights in the Global South Part 2: Strategic Interdependence and the role of international organizations and NGO's 4. NGOs and the Protection of Human Rights in a Mutable Humanitarian Environment 5. Institutional Responsibility and the R2P Doctrine in the Global South: The crises in Libya and Syria 6. Rape, War, Genocide: A Strategy to Deliberate Extermination Part 3: Case Studies 7. Governance and Human Rights in Liberia during the Taylor Regime 8. The ICC Role in the Lawfare of the Gaza Flotilla Dispute 9. Global and Local Governance and Transitional Justice: The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda 10. The Question of Self-determination in East Timor 11. Human Rights Activism and the Colombian Constitutional Court: Judicial Review of States of Exception in the 1990s 12. Human Rights: Conclusion and Implications for the Global South
About the author
Rami Goldstein is a lawyer and lecturer in International Law and Refugee Law at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Nitza Nachmias is Professor (emeritus) of Political Science and International Organizations at Towson University, USA.
Summary
This book offers a new approach to human rights by analyzing the role of checks and balances governmentalism, and systems intended for the prevention of human rights violations and the enforcement of norms and rules, such as International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO), and domestic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
