Texts and materials on international human rights / Rhona K.M. Smith.

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.