Books in the Human Rights and International Law series

In this book Kerry O¿Halloran analyses a subject of international interest ¿ religion ¿ and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective.

There is a clear overlap between the public objectives of guaranteeing socio-economic human rights for all, and arranging adequate access to essential public services across society. This edited volume brings together the two topics for the first time in order to explore how socio-economic rights law can be harnessed to reinforce better services access, and how human rights can be strengthened to play an important role in assessing socio-economic legal and policy decisions. The volume identifies common challenges for providing the various essential services and also examines how socio-economic rights or guideposts can be harnessed to improve their provision.

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world today, and it permeates every society. Yet at the international level, there is a gap in the legal protection of women and girls from violence. This book critically analyses the UN system and three regional human rights systems as well as address the current gap in Asia in relation to this issue. The book proposes that the gap should be addressed through a new UN Convention or alternatively an Optional Protocol to the CEDAW, in order to promote a life free of violence for women and girls and to address the systemic challenges that are the causes and consequences of such violence.

This book critically analyses the UN system and three regional human rights systems as well as address the current gap in Asia in relation to this issue.