Date: 2016
Type: Book
Human security and human rights under international law : the protections offered to persons confronting structural vulnerability
Portland : Hart Publishing, 2016
ESTRADA-TANCK, Dorothy, Human security and human rights under international law : the protections offered to persons confronting structural vulnerability, Portland : Hart Publishing, 2016
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44268
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Human security provides one of the most important protections; a person-centred axis of freedom from fear, from want and to live with dignity. It is surprising given its centrality to the human experience, that its connection with human rights has not yet been explored in a truly systematic way. This important new book addresses that gap in the literature by analysing whether human security might provide the tools for an expansive and integrated interpretation of international human rights. The examination takes a two-part approach. Firstly, it evaluates convergences between human security and all human rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – and constructs an investigative framework focused on the human security-human rights synergy. It then goes on to explore its practical application in the thematic cores of violence against women and undocumented migrants in the law and case-law of UN, European, Inter-American and African human rights bodies. It takes both a legal and interdisciplinary approach, recognising that human security and its relationship with human rights cuts across disciplinary boundaries. Innovative and rigorous, this is an important contribution to human rights scholarship.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Conceptual Outlines
1. Human Security: An Overview
2. Human Security, International Law and Human Rights
3. The Human Security–Human Rights Synergy
Part II: Practical Applications of the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy in Legal Analysis
4. Violence against Women, Human Security and Women's Human Rights
5. Human Security and Rights of Undocumented Migrants and Other Non-Citizens
6. Undocumented Female Migrants and Illustrative Migrant Cases
7. Conclusions on the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy and Prospective Routes
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44268
ISBN: 9781509902385
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/28036
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013
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