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Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law

Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law

Author: Bård A. Andreassen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781789908824
Published In: April 2023
Format: Hardback
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International human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics. This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics impacts human rights legislation and, conversely, how human rights law shapes politics and the functioning of the state.

Bringing together leading international scholars in human rights law and politics, the Research Handbook provides theoretical reflections and empirical analyses across the areas of governance and policies and examines the implementation mechanisms of human rights law in national and international jurisdictions. Chapters discuss issues such as the mobilization of human rights in developing countries, the politics of torture and resource allocation, and the influence of politics on international institutions. It also presents a critical analysis of the human rights regimes in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and how the state works in ways which respect the ethics and values of human rights law.

Providing a comprehensive overview of the reciprocal relationship between politics and human rights legislation, this Handbook will be essential reading for students and academics in human rights, international politics, law and politics, and public policy.

Introductory essay: the politics of international human rights law 1

Bård A. Andreassen

PART I. GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS

The closing and resilience of civic space from a human rights perspective: scope, causes, responses 29

Antoine Buyse

Governance and human rights: African challenges 47

Göran Hyden

Writing political histories of international human rights law 61

Steven L. B. Jensen

Power and civic action: mobilisation for human rights in developing societies 79

Gordon Crawford

Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association – practices and obstacles 99

Maina Kiai and Waruguru Kaguongo

The role of national human rights systems in the implementation of

international human rights law 115

Domenico Zipoli

The relevance of governance and multi-level governance to the study of

human rights: insights from business and human rights 145

Claire Methven O’Brien

The politics of torture: legal, social and political dynamics 166

Nora Sveaass

Rooting rights in local spaces? Transformations in gender relations and

citizen engagement 194

Celestine Nyamu Musembi

PART II. DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND PUBLIC POLICIES

10.

The SDG agenda and human rights 215

Markus Kaltenborn and Wouter Vandenhole

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Poverty and civil and political rights 236

Philip Alston

12.

Politics of resources allocation: tax, expenditure and inequality in the

human rights supervisory bodies 255

Hans-Otto Sano and Carlos Villalobos

PART III. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

13.

Globalization and human rights 280

Siddiqur R. Osmani

14.

The influence of politics on the work of the UN human rights treaty bodies 310

Gentian Zyberi and Ibrahim Salama

15.

International human rights law, politics and international financial

institutions: the case of the World Bank 338

Siobhán McInerney-Lankford

16.

The African human rights system: a critical appraisal 364

Victor Oluwasina Ayeni

17.

The quest for an (effective) Southeast Asian human right system 389

Sriprapha Petcharamesree

18.

The EU human rights regime: development, actors, policy framework

and effectiveness 409

Gabriel N. Toggenburg

19.

Citizenship and international human rights law – enduring enigma of

the Middle East 440

Nils A. Butenschøn

20.

The politics of international human rights and development aid 458

Arne Tostensen

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