The Law of International Human Rights Protection

Auteur
Walter Kälin is Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, and a former Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Legal Department. Jörg Künzli is Assistant Professor of Public International and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern.

Texte du rabat

The second edition of Kalin and Kunzli's authoritative book provides a concise but comprehensive legal analysis of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels. It shows that human rights are real rights creating legal entitlements for those who are protected by them and imposing legal obligations on those bound by them.

Résumé
The second edition of Kälin and Künzli's authoritative book provides a concise but comprehensive legal analysis of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels. It shows that human rights are real rights creating legal entitlements for those who are protected by them and imposing legal obligations on those bound by them.

Contenu

• I: The Foundations of International Human Rights Law

• 1: Origins and Universality

• 2: Notions and Sources

• 3: The Legal Nature of Human Rights Obligations

• 4: Scope of Application of Human Rights

• 5: Obligations: International Humanitarian Law

• II: Implementation of Human Rights

• 6: Basic Principles

• 7: Treaty Bodies

• 8: Charter Based Bodies

• III: Substantive Guarantees

• 9: Protection of Human Life

• 10: Protection of Human Integrity - Prohibition of Ill-Treatment and of Enforced Disappearance

• 11: Protection of Human Identity - Prohibition of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

• 12: Protection of Private Life

• 13: Protection of the Intellectual and Spiritual Sphere

• 14: Protection of the Human Person in the Economic Sphere

• 15: Protection of Persons Deprived of their Liberty and Fair Trial Guarantees

• 16: Protection of Participation in Political Life

• 17: Protection During Migration, Forced Displacement, and Flight