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Rights for Others : the Slow Home-Coming of Human Rights in the Netherlands.
An empirical account of the mismatch between Dutch foreign policy and their approach to human rights domestically.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: the rights for others; The rise of rights talk; Human rights exportism; Theories of home-coming; Rights: law, and much more than that; Mapping how rights acquire meaning; The role of actors; Approaches; Outline of the book; Chapter 2 Internationalism as a constitutional identity; An incomplete rights catalogue; Support to the international legal order; Promoting the development of the international legal order; The Joan of Arc of international law; The European Convention on Human Rights.
- Art. 91: Mapping relations between government and parliamentArt. 92 The transfer of sovereignty to international organizations; Direct effect; Art. 93 Establishing international legal subjectivity; Art. 94 Judicial review against treaties only; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Rights-free citizenship; An unknown rights catalogue; Legal culture: consensualism over adversarialism; Culturalism and assimilationist citizenship; Immigration via integration and citizenship; Towards a Charter of Responsible Citizenship; A civic education curriculum; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The struggle over human rights education.
- Actors negotiating human rights educationNGOs; International monitoring bodies; The civil servants; Politicians and parliamentarians; Other actors; Dynamics of human rights implementation; 'Waving treaties'; Generating political support, and its perils; Vernacularization; Creating a broad support base; Human rights litigation; Conclusion; Chapter 5 A very un-Dutch case?; Islamophobia; The legal background; The international human rights perspective; The case of the century; The unwillingness to prosecute; The judiciary in the dock; The lack of legal standing of the plaintiffs; Conclusion.
- Chapter 6 Dealing with domestic violence the Dutch wayDomestic violence in the Netherlands; International human rights law and domestic violence; Domestic violence as an issue under international human rights law; The Dutch role in formulating international human rights law; The international community and domestic violence in the Netherlands; Two worlds?; Another chronicle of a death foretold; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Giving effect to social rights; The ICESCR; Enforcing the ICESCR
- A chicken and egg game; Signing (not ratifying) the OPCESCR; 'No child put out onto the streets': a case study.
- The lawyersThe NGOs; The parliamentarians; The municipalities; Conclusion; Chapter 8 The rights of the Reformed; A special group; Contested legal space; Passive voting rights for Reformed women; Gay teachers in reformed schools; National-international interplays; Strategically invoking CEDAW and the ECHR; Give-and-take on gay rights; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Conclusion: the contested home-coming of human rights; Resistance towards international human rights; The home-coming of international human rights; Giving meaning to human rights; The sociology of rights and the case of the Netherlands.