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Title

• Defending human rights : tools for social justice : volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the 30th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights / edited by Ida Lintel, Antoine Buyse, Brianne McGonigle Leyh.

Publication

Cambridge [U.K.] ; Portland : Intersentia, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Buyse, Antoine C. (Antoine Christian), 1977-
• Hoof, G. J. H. van (Godefridus J. H.), 1949-
• Leyh, Brianne McGonigle.
• Lintel, Ida.
• McGonigle Leyh, Brianne.
• Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten (Netherlands)

Description

xi, 172 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

The Netherlands Institute of Human rights (Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten) (SIM) celebrates its 30th anniversary together with the valedictory lecture of one if its pioneers, Fried van Hoof. In 30 years the role of the regional human rights instruments and institutions has changed: their impact increased and thus more debate on their roles takes place. As the instruments and institutions are never a goal as such, but tools to increase social justice, the question has been raised what is, or should be their contribution to social justice? The speakers of the Conference on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of SIM and some of Fried van Hoof's former Ph.D candidates shed their light on various aspects of this question.

Alternative Title

• Volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the 30th anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
• Volume in honour of Fried van Hoof on the occasion of his valedictory lecture and the thirtieth anniversary of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights

Subject

• Hoof, G. J. H. van 1949-
• Human rights
• National human rights institutions
• Social justice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Social justice in the inter-American system of human rights : an approach / Pedro Nikken -- The European Court of Human Rights and social justice / Egbert Myjer -- The African regional human rights system and its potential for delivering, or at least contributing to, social justice / Frans Viljoen -- The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights as a tool for social justice / Tan Hsien-Li -- The League of Arab States : recent developments on human rights and social justice / Mervat Rishmawi -- The institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN / Irene I. Hadiprayitno -- Towards the establishment of a regional human rights mechanism in Asia / Mitsue Inazumi -- Acting normal and doing good : the Dutch and human rights / Esther van den Berg -- Health, human rights and social justice in Europe / Brigit Toebes -- Economic and social rights and social justice movements : some courtship, no marriage, no children yet / Marlies Glasius -- Empowering David to face Goliath : regional human rights systems and victims of corporate human rights violations / Nicola Jägers -- A world court of human rights : Utopia? / Manfred Nowak.

ISBN

• 9781780680828 (pbk.)
• 1780680821 (pbk.)

OCLC

797980923

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library