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Zusatztext "Taking a thematic approach! her book offers a useful integration of analysis from the national! regional and global levels! making the interaction of international and local rights thinking visible... Farran offers an overview of evolving international norms that takes us back to the Magna Carta and the evolution of codified and customary international law! but also asks-as many human rights scholars have done-if pre-colonial indigenous law and traditions provide wellsprings." - David Webster! University of Regina; Asia Pacific World! Volume 2 Number 2! Autumn 2011 Informationen zum Autor Sue Farran is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Dundee, Scotland and was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus, Vanuatu. Klappentext Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. Zusammenfassung Offers a look at the challenges and contemporary issues raised by human rights in the island countries of the South West Pacific which have come under the influence of the common law - where the legal systems are complex and perceptions of rights varies widely. This book is suitable for those interested in the region or in human rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Region Of The Pacific 2. Rights and the Laws That Give Effect to Them 3. Theories and Approaches to Human Rights 4. Fundamental Rights and Questions of Property 5. Social Ordering: Custom and Equality 6. Freedom from Discrimination 7. Rights Advocacy and Enforcement 8. Taking Rights Forward
