Subjects:

Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Contents:

Cases

Instruments

Statutes

Part I. Introduction:
1. Historical and juridical background

2. The international bill of human rights

3. The domestic protection of human rights

4. The international protection of human rights

Part II. General Principles:
5. Interpretation

6. Non-discrimination

7. Limitations

8. Derogation

Part III. The Substantive Rights:
9. The right of self-determination

10. The right to life

11. The right to freedom from torture

12. The right to freedom from slavery

13. The right to liberty

14. The rights of prisoners

15. The right to freedom of movement

16. The right to a fair trial

17. The rights of accused persons

18. The right to recognition as a person

19. The right to privacy

20. The right to freedom of thought

21. The right to freedom of expression

22. The right to freedom of assembly

23. The right to freedom of association

24. The right to family life

25. The rights of the child

26. The right to participate in public life

27. The right to equality

28. The rights of minorities

29. The rights relating to work

30. The rights relating to social security

31. The right to an adequate standard of living

32. The rights relating to property

33. The right to health

34. The right to education

35. The right to cultural life

Indices: Subjects

Terms and phrases.

Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, over 140 countries have incorporated human rights standards into their legal systems: the resulting jurisprudence from diverse cultural traditions brings new dimensions to concepts first articulated in the 1948 Declaration. Nihal Jayawickrama draws on all available sources to encapsulate the judicial interpretation of human rights law in one ambitious, comprehensive volume.

Jayawickrama covers the case law of the superior courts of over eighty countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, and the jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights monitoring bodies, the European Court of Human Rights, and of the Inter-American system. He analyses the judicial application of human rights law to demonstrate empirically the universality of contemporary human rights norms. This definitive compendium will be essential for legal practitioners, government and non-governmental officials, as well as academics and students of both constitutional law and the international law of human rights.

• The only comprehensive statement of the substantive content of contemporary human rights concepts
• The only book that assembles all the available jurisprudence on human rights law from national, regional and international sources
• The only publication that empirically demonstrates, through an analysis of the judicial application of human rights law, the universality of contemporary human rights norms