Human Rights – A Very Short Introduction book pdf download

Author: Andrew Clapham

About the Author: Andrew is Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and he was the first Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He specialises in international human rights and has acted in several ECHR cases. He has been a special adviser on Corporate Responsibility to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, and was adviser on international humanitarian law to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. He was the Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York from 1991-1997, and has participated as the representative of Amnesty International in numerous inter-governmental meetings as well as in Amnesty International missions to Mozambique, Rwanda, Burundi and Liberia. Andrew was involved in the cases of Osman v UK and Georgia v Russia (II) before the European Court of Human Rights. Called 1985, Andrew has a practice in international human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal law, and UN law. He has advised on cases before the European Court of Human Rights and acted as legal adviser and representative for the Government of Solomon Islands for the drafting of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998). He also participated as the representative of the International Commission of Jurists in the negotiations in Kampala for the amendment to the Rome Statute to include the crime of aggression, and in the diplomatic conferences in New York for an Arms Trade Treaty 2012-2013. In 2014 Andrew was nominated as an Arbitrator under the UN Law of the Sea Convention. As Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Andrew teaches human rights law, humanitarian law and public international law.

Human Rights – A Very Short Introduction book pdf download By Andrew Clapham

From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing being practiced in Darfur, to the widespread denial of equal rights to women in many areas of the world, human rights violations are a constant presence in the news and in our lives. Taking an international perspective, and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health, and discrimination, this Very Short Introduction will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind this vitally relevant issue. Looking at the philosophical justification for rights, the historical origins of human rights and how they are formed in law, Andrew Clapham explains what our human rights actually are, what they might be, and where the human rights movement is heading.

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