DIIS researcher contributes to internationally acclaimed volume on human rights
DIIS researcher Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen has contributed a chapter entitled “Growing Barriers - International Refugee Law” to the just published volume Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The volume brings together a range of acclaimed human rights scholars, including Manfred Nowak and Barbara Frey (both UN Special Rapporteurs), to thematically examine frontier issues within human rights law.
Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations examines both the international and domestic foundations of human rights law. What other contemporary human rights debates have almost totally ignored is that in an increasingly interdependent world - where public and private international actors have great influence on the lives of individuals everywhere - it is insufficient to assess only the record of domestic governments in human rights. It is equally important to assess the effect of actions taken by intergovernmental organizations, international private entities, and foreign states.
From this standpoint, contributors to this book address how states' actions or omissions may affect the prospects of individuals in foreign states and asks important questions: To what extent do agricultural policies of rich countries influence the right to food in poorer countries? How do decisions to screen asylum seekers outside state borders affect refugee rights? How does cooperation among different states in the "war on terror" influence individuals' rights to be free from torture? This volume presents a brief for a more complex and updated approach to the protection of human rights worldwide.
Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations
Mark Gibney and Sigrun Skogly, Editors
296 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth Jan 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4215-7 | $65.00s | £42.50 | Buy here
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series