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Title Myth or lived reality : on the (in)effectiveness of human rights / Claire Boost, Andrea Broderick, Fons Coomans, Roland Moerland, editors
Published The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Instituut, 2021

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Contents Chapter 1. The (In)Effectiveness of Human Rights: Mapping Existing Research - An Introduction -- Part I. The Effectiveness of International Law: Institutions and Processes -- Chapter 2. Effectiveness of the ICESCR Complaint Mechanism - An Analysis and Discussion of the Spanish Housing Rights Cases -- Chapter 3. Effective Distance: A Polish Dissidents Encounter with Amnesty International and its Western-born Rules -- Part II. The Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring and Implementation at the Domestic Level -- Chapter 4. Does the Right to Education Lead to Better Primary Education Outcomes? -- Chapter 5. Paving the Way for Effective Socio-Economic Rights? The Domestic Enforcement of the European Social Charter System in Light of Recent Judicial Practice -- Chapter 6. How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments and Refugees in Turkey -- Part III. Human Rights at the Individual Level: Individual Experiences and Key Actors -- Chapter 7. Child Participation as the Holy Grail: Effective and Meaningful Participation in Judicial Proceedings? The Cases of the Immigration System and the Youth Care System in the Netherlands -- Chapter 8. Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From Hobby of the Few to the Few Behind the Hobby -- Annex: Toogdag 2019 Report
Summary This book seeks to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, whether human rights are, in fact, a myth or a lived reality. Over the years much has been said about their effectiveness or, rather, their ineffectiveness.00This perceived ineffectiveness relates not only to institutional challenges at the international level, but also to national implementation mechanisms and processes. In addition, questions have arisen as to whether individuals or groups of individuals actually benefit from the normative guarantees contained in human rights law and whether human rights as legal constructs can be effectively translated into better outcomes.00This volume can be distinguished from the existing literature by virtue of the fact that it not only brings together scholars at different stages of their careers, but also that it incorporates contributions that adopt different methodological perspectives and cover a variety of topics.00The book should prove of great benefit to human rights researchers, human rights practitioners, NGOs and students
Subject Human rights.
Human Rights
Human rights
Form Electronic book
Author Boost, Claire, editor
Broderick, Andrea, editor
Coomans, Fons, editor
Moerland, Roland, 1976- editor.
ISBN 9789462654471
9462654476