Texts and materials on international human rights /
Rhona K.M. Smith.
- 3rd ed.
- xxxix, 576 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sources of international human rights -- Key concepts : universality, interdependence and categories of rights -- States and treaty obligations -- Human rights organisations and key institutions -- Monitoring and enforcing human rights : extra-conventional mechanisms -- Implementing human rights treaties : committees and courts -- National institutions for protecting and promoting human rights -- Extending the duties to protect and respect human rights : non-state actors -- Reforming the international and regional human rights systems -- Protecting children -- Detainees, prisoners and convicts -- Indigenous people and their rights -- The protection of refugees, stateless persons and internally displaced people -- Protecting and promoting the rights of women.