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| 211. | Jones, Jackie (ed.) : The legal protection of women from violence, 2018 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The legal protection of women from violence : normative gaps in international law / Jones, Jackie (ed.) ; Manjoo, Rashida (ed.), 228 p. - London : Routledge , 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-73796-9 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Jackie Jones: The importance of international law and institutions. 2. David L. Richards and Jillienne Haglund: Exploring the consequences of the normative gap in legal protections addressing violence against women. 3. Rashida Manjoo: Normative developments on violence against women in the United Nations system. 4. Nicholas Wasonga Orago and Maria Nassali: The African human rights system: challenges and potential in addressing violence against women in Africa. 5. Jackie Jones: The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention). 6. Caroline Bettinger-López: Violence against women: normative developments in the Inter-American human rights system. 7. Rashida Manjoo: Closing the normative gap in international law on violence against women: developments, initiatives and possible options. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): Istanbul convention; ECHR; CEDAW; Protocol on the rights of women in Africa; Convention of Belem Do Para |
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| 212. | Nowak, Manfred : Torture, 2018 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Torture : an expert's confrontation with an everyday evil / Nowak, Manfred, 199 p. - Philadephia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8122-4991-0 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. PART I: The phenomenon of torture in the twenty-first century. 1. The incomprehensibility of torture. 2. The role of a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. 3. Independent investigation of torture: methods. 4. States' methods to impede objective investigations. 5. Are fact-finding missions dangerous?. 6. Understanding toture and ill-treatment. 7. Inhuman detention conditions: worse than torture?. 8. Is corporal punishment torture?. 9. Is capital punishment torture?. 10. Is domestic violence or female genital mutilation torture?. 11. Torture in the twenty-first century. 12. Why torture?. 13. Is there ever a justification for torture?. 14. George Bush's war on terror. 15. Torture and enforced disappearance. Part II: Torture in individual states. 16. Georgia: plea bargaining as a substitute for torture?. 17. Mongolia: dealth penalty as a state secret. 18. Nepal: "a little bit of torture helps". 19. China: rehabilitation, reeducation, or brainwashing?. 20. Jordan: general intelligence as a cradle of torture. 21. Austria: the case of Bakary Jassey. 22. Paraguay: excellent follow-up. 23. Nigeria: notorius torture chamber in Lagos. 24. Togo: successfully releasing detainees. 25. Sri Lanka: Perfect PR strategy. 26. Indonesia: three "smoking guns". 27. Denmark and Greenland: the principle of normalization. 28. Moldova: torture in the form of trafficking in women. 29. Equatorial Guinea: systematic torture as government policy. 30. Uruguay: full coperation despite appalling conditions. 31. Kazakhstan: Potemkin villages. 32. Jamaica: structural violence instead of torture. 33. Papua New Guinea: traditional structures coexist with globalization. 34. Greece: the joint asylum and migration policy of the European Union, put to the test. Conclusions. INDEX WORDS:
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| 213. | Mason Meier, Benjamin (ed.) : Human rights in global health, 2018 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Human rights in global health : rights-based governance for a globalizing world / Mason Meier, Benjamin (ed.) ; Gostin, Lawrence O. (ed.), 585 p. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-067268-3 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin: Introduction: responding to the public health harms of a globalizing world through human rights in global governance. 1. Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier: The origins of human rights in global health. 2. Alicia Ely Yamin and Andrés Constantin: The evolution of applying human rights frameworks to health. 3. Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin: Framing human rights in global health governance. 4. Michel Sidibé, Helena Nygren-Krug, Bronwyn McBride and Kent Buse: The future of global governance for health: putting rights at the center of sustainable development. 5. Benjamin Mason Meier and Florian Kastler: Development of human rights through WHO. 6. Rebekah Thomas and Veronica Magar: Mainstreaming human rights across WHO. 7. Flavia Bustreo, Veronica Magar, Rajat Khosla, Marcus Stahlhofer and Rebekah Thomas: The future of human rights in WHO. 8. Benjamin Mason Meier, Mitra Motlagh and Kumanan Rasanathan: The United Nations Children's Fund: implementing human rights for child health. 9. Lee Swepston: The International Labor Organization: human rights to health and safety at work. 10. Audrey R. Chapman and Konstantinos Tararas: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: advancing global health through human rights in education and science. 11. Emilie Filmer-Wilson and Luis Mora: The United Nations Population Fund: an evolving human rights mission and approach to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. 12. Carolin Anthes and Olivier de Schutter: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: advancing the right to food to promote public health. 13. Helena Nygren-Krug: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: with communities for human rights. 14. Sarah Hawkes, Julia Kreienkamp and Kent Buse: The future of inter-governmental organisation partnerships for health and human rights. 15. Stephen P. Marks: Integrating a human rights-based approach to development and the right to development into global governance for health. 16. Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger: The World Bank: contested institutional progress in rights-based health discourse. 17. Suerie Moon and Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam: The World Trade Organization: carving out the right to health to promote access to medicines and tobacco control in the trade arena. 18. Rachel Hammonds and Gorik J. Ooms: National foreign assistance programs: advancing health related human rights through shared obligations for global health. 19. Ralf Jürgens, Joanne Csete, Hyeyoung Lim, Susan Timberlake and Matthew Smith: The global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria: funding basic services and meeting the challenge of rights-based programs. 20. Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds: The future of multilateral funding to realize the right to health. 21. Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: mapping the evolution of the right to health. 22. Thérèse Murphy and Amrei Müller: The United Nations Special Procedures: peopling human rights, peopling global health. 23. Benjamin Mason Meier and Virginia Brás Gomes: Human rights treaty bodies: monitoring, interpreting, and adjudicating health-related human rights. 24. Judith R. Bueno de Mesquite, Connor Fuchs and Dabney P. Evans: The future of human rights accountability for global health through the Universal Periodic Review. Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin: Conclusion: comparative analysis of human rights in global governance for health. Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin: Afterword: governance for global health and human rights in a populist age. INDEX WORDS:
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