Human Rights Law And Evidence Based Policy

Author : Rosemary Byrne,Han Entzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429588655

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Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy by Rosemary Byrne,Han Entzinger Pdf

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) was established to provide evidence-based policy advice to EU institutions and Member States. By blending social science research with traditional normative work, it aims to influence human rights policy processes through new ways of framing empirical realities. The contributors to this volume critically examine the experience of the Agency in its first decade, exploring FRA’s historical, political and legal foundations and its evolving record across major strands of EU fundamental rights. Central themes arising from these chapters include consideration of how the Agency manages the tension between a mandate to advise and the more traditional approach of human rights bodies to ‘monitor’, and how its research impacts the delicate equilibrium between these two contesting roles. FRA's experience as the first ‘embedded’ human rights agency is also highlighted, suggesting a role for alternative and less oppositional orientations for human rights research. While authors observe the benefits of the technocratic approach to human rights research that is a hallmark of FRA’s evidence-based policy advice, they also note its constraints. FRA’s policy work requires a continued awareness of political realities in Brussels, Member States, and civil society. Consequently, the complex process of determining the Agency’s research agenda reflects the strategic priorities of key actors. This is an important factor in the Agency’s role in the EU human rights landscape. This pioneering position of the Agency should invite reflection on new forms of institutionalized human rights research for the future.

Author : Bård A. Andreassen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789908825

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Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law by Bård A. Andreassen Pdf

International human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics. This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state. Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions. Chapters discuss issues such as the mobilization of human rights in developing countries, the politics of torture and resource allocation, and the influence of politics on international institutions. It also presents a critical analysis of the human rights regimes in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and how the state works in ways which respect the ethics and values of human rights law. Providing a comprehensive overview of the reciprocal relationship between politics and human rights legislation, this Research Handbook will be essential reading for students and academics in human rights, international politics, law and politics, and public policy.

Author : Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691192710

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Evidence for Hope by Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.

Author : David S. Weissbrodt
Publisher : LexisNexis/Matthew Bender
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134459457

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International Human Rights by David S. Weissbrodt Pdf

This comprehensive work provides an introduction to human rights law, policy, and process. International Human Rights begins with an overview, then discusses drafting and ratifying treaties, establishing institutions, using procedures for monitoring compliance and responding to gross violations, using adjudicative remedies, applying refugee and international labor law, relating human rights norms to terrorism, and exploring how the causes of violations can be used to improve human rights compliance. The Fourth Edition addresses a number of significant developments in the human rights arena including: Emergence of international criminal law as a potential response to crimes against humanity; Emergence of the United Nations Security Council as a significant human rights actor and the challenges it faces; The role of human rights norms in responding to and regulating state responses to terrorism; The capacity of human rights to respond to abuses by corporate actors; The ability of human rights to respond to and account for violations committed in the context of ethnic hatred, internal conflict, and intrastate violence; and The challenges faced by non-government human rights organizations in the post 9/11 context. International Human Rights is also accompanied by a comprehensive documentary supplement, Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law. Professor Weissbrodt provides periodic updates to the casebook on the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Web site (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/intlhr). This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.

Author : Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521885102

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Mobilizing for Human Rights by Beth A. Simmons Pdf

Beth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.

Author : Justin Parkhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317380863

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The Politics of Evidence by Justin Parkhurst Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas. This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective. Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking. It explores the concern of evidence advocates that political interests drive the misuse or manipulation of evidence, as well as counter-concerns of critical policy scholars about how appeals to ‘evidence-based policy’ can depoliticise political debates. Both concerns reflect forms of bias – the first representing technical bias, whereby evidence use violates principles of scientific best practice, and the second representing issue bias in how appeals to evidence can shift political debates to particular questions or marginalise policy-relevant social concerns. Part II then draws on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand the origins and mechanisms of both forms of bias in relation to political interests and values. It illustrates how such biases are not only common, but can be much more predictable once we recognise their origins and manifestations in policy arenas. Finally, Part III discusses ways to move forward for those seeking to improve the use of evidence in public policymaking. It explores what constitutes ‘good evidence for policy’, as well as the ‘good use of evidence’ within policy processes, and considers how to build evidence-advisory institutions that embed key principles of both scientific good practice and democratic representation. Taken as a whole, the approach promoted is termed the ‘good governance of evidence’ – a concept that represents the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.

Author : Richard B. Lillich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Human rights
ISBN : OCLC:610472365

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International Human Rights by Richard B. Lillich Pdf

Author : Nadia Bernaz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317233855

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Business and Human Rights by Nadia Bernaz Pdf

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business – companies and businesspeople – in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting standards and holding corporations and businesspeople to account if violations occur. Adopting a legal perspective, this book presents the ways in which this dual undertaking has been and could be further carried out in the future, and evaluates the extent to which the various initiatives in the field bridge the corporate accountability gap. It looks at the historical background of the field of business and human rights, and examines salient periods, events and cases. The book then goes on to explore the relevance of international human rights law and international criminal law for global business. International soft law and policy initiatives which have blossomed in recent years are evaluated along with private modes of regulation. The book also examines how domestic law, especially the domestic law of multinational companies’ home countries, can be used to prevent and redress corporate related human rights violations.

Author : Castan Centre for Human Rights Law,United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0975244256

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Human Rights Translated by Castan Centre for Human Rights Law,United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

"The purpose of this publication is to contribute to [the] process of clarification by explaining universally recognised human rights in a way that makes sense to business. The publication also aims to illustrate, through the use of case studies and actions, how human rights are relevant in a corporate context and how human rights issues can be managed."--Introduction, p. vii.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical laws and legislation
ISBN : 0433465247

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Canadian Health Law and Policy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801487765

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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly Pdf

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Chris Beyrer,H. F. Pizer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801886473

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Public Health and Human Rights by Chris Beyrer,H. F. Pizer Pdf

Provides critical evidenced based assessements and tools with which to investigate the role of rights abrogation in the health of populations.

Author : Torsten Stirner
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004463134

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The Procedural Law Governing Facts and Evidence in International Human Rights Proceedings by Torsten Stirner Pdf

This book provides a comparative assessment of the procedural law governing facts and evidence with references to over 900 judgments and decisions of the European and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as the UN Human Rights Committee. It identifies underlying principles which govern the procedural law of these international human rights institutions. Based on the premise of a contextualized procedural law governing facts and evidence, the book analyzes where current approaches lack a foundation in the contextualization premise and offers solutions for recurring procedural problems relating to questions of subsidiarity in fact-finding, burden and standard of proof, as well as the admissibility and evaluation of evidence.

Author : Julie Mertus,Jeffrey W. Helsing
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1929223773

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Human Rights and Conflict by Julie Mertus,Jeffrey W. Helsing Pdf

'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.

Author : Oyeniyi Abe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000588217

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Implementing Business and Human Rights Norms in Africa: Law and Policy Interventions by Oyeniyi Abe Pdf

This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global environment, especially when operating in high risks sectors such as oil and gas, mining, construction, banking, and health care amongst others. Understanding human rights responsibilities, impacts, and socially responsible behaviour for companies is therefore an essential component of corporate risk management in our current world. The release of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, an instrument consisting of 31 principles on this issue, has further underscored the emergence of a rapidly developing set of international law norms on human rights responsibilities of businesses and transnational corporations. It has also shaped the discourse on corporate accountability for human rights. In addition to minimizing litigation, financial and reputational risks, understanding and demonstrating corporate respect for human rights is vital to building a culture of trust and integrity amongst local communities, investors, and shareholders. While Africa has been at the receiving end of deleterious activities of corporate actors, it has failed to address corporate impunity and human rights violations by non-state actors. Questions abound revolving around the underpinnings of a corporate responsibility to respect human rights, that is, how non-western and particularly African conceptions of respect may help develop a beyond do no net harm approach to respect; policy discourses on human rights due diligence, human rights impact assessment; mandating corporate respect for human rights in both domestic and international law. This book examines, clarifies, and unpacks the guiding principles of a rights-based approach to development and social inclusion. It offers an excellent exposition of regulatory capacity, institutional efficacy, and democratic legitimacy of governance institutions that shape development including a comprehensive analysis of how states are shaping business and human rights discourses locally to develop a critical understanding of identified issues by exploring the latest theories through comparative lenses.