Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. The Bottom of the Pyramid Countries, MNCs, and Human Rights: What Lies Beyond the Washington Consensus
Ron Berger (College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan Israel)
Chapter 2. The Premise/Promise of Well-being: Human Rights and the Case for Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Alisa Clarke (Human Rights Officer, UN Office of the High Commisioner for Human Rights, President, Global Vision Institute)
Chapter 3. Inequality, Access to the Courts, and Judicial Integrity
Barry Edwards, Allison Trochessett, Tyler Yeargain (Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, and others)
Chapter 4. The Strategic Use by Aboriginal Australians of International Human Rights Norms and United Nations Monitoring Mechanisms to Secure Greater Justice and Recognition of Their Rights under Australian Law and Policy
Doug Hodgson (Dean, School of Law, Fremantle, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Western Australia)
Chapter 5. Quality of Interpretation in Interrogations of Detained Persons during the Pre-trial Stage of Criminal Investigations as a Concern under Article 5(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights
Stefan Kirchner (University Lecturer for Fundamental and Human Rights, University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, Rovaniemi, Finland, and others)
Chapter 6. The Reindeer Herding Right in Norway and Sweden as a Protected Right under the European Convention on Human Rights
Stefan Kirchner (University Lecturer for Fundamental and Human Rights, University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, Rovaniemi, Finland, and others)
Chapter 7. Protocols No. 14 and No. 15: Undermining the Protective Mechanism of the European Convention on Human Rights
Gino J. Naldi (Researcher in International Law and Human Rights and Professor Konstantinos D. Magliveras, University of the Aegean, Greece)
Chapter 8. Cultural Property as a Casualty of Armed Conflict: A Comment on the Lessons from Iraq and Syria
Lara Pratt (School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia)
Chapter 9. The International Human Right to Freedom of Expression: A South African Constitutional Perspective
CM van der Bank (Vaal University of Technology, South Africa)
Chapter 10. How Demanding is the Right to Benefit from Scientific Progress?
Elizabeth Victor (William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA)
Chapter 11. Descent, Filiation and the Rights of Children Among the Fantse of Ghana
Alex J. Wilson (Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana)
Chapter 12. Subordination and Super-Ordination: Discourse Analysis of Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Ghana
Alex J. Wilson, Douglas Frimpong-Nnuroh (Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana)
Index
The intended audience includes legal scholars and practitioners, human rights advocates and students (particularly those studying Law, International Relations and Political Science) who wish to increase their knowledge of, and passion for, the human rights field. The book will also be of interest to parliamentarians, policy-makers and government lawyers as well as the secretariat staff of United Nations inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in the human rights field.