Preventive Human Rights Strategies,Ramcharan, Bertrand G,Routledge [Imprint];Taylor & Francis Group by Ramcharan, Bertrand G., Bertrand G. Ramcharan, B. G Ramcharan ISBN 9780415548557, 9780203856505, 9780415548564, 041554856X, 0415548551, 0203856503 instant download

Preventive Human Rights Strategies,Ramcharan, Bertrand G,Routledge [Imprint];Taylor & Francis Group by Ramcharan, Bertrand G., Bertrand G. Ramcharan, B. G Ramcharan ISBN 9780415548557, 9780203856505, 9780415548564, 041554856X, 0415548551, 0203856503 instant download

1 (p1): Introduction
12 (p2): 1 Threats,challenges,and the responsibility to prevent
36 (p3): 2 Obligations to prevent under international human rights treaties
48 (p4): 3 The preventive role of national human rights institutions
60 (p5): 4 Regional preventive strategies
73 (p6): 5 Global preventive strategies
84 (p7): 6 Preventive human rights diplomacy
93 (p8): 7 The preventive role of peacekeepers,observers,and human rights monitors
103 (p9): 8 Preventive strategies of NGOs
112 (p10): 9 The preventive role of the international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court
123 (p11): 10 Conclusion
128 (p12): Notes
136 (p13): Select bibliography
138 (p14): Index

The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future.

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the book suggests the future lies in strong national protection systems backed up by regional and international organs and an international criminal justice system. The book explores the future of preventive human rights through a wide range of contemporary issues, including:

• climate change
• pandemics
• mass migration
• global poverty and pervasive inequality
• inter-state conflicts
• terrorism, including WMD terrorism
• gross violations of human rights
• the financial and economic crisis

　

We are already in a quite different world in the 21st century, and human rights thinking will need to evolve to meet its needs. This important and contemporary volume calls for the modification of current preventive…