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"JGRO focuses on human rights as they are practiced and applied in various regional courts around the globe, including the International Criminal Court, Inter-American Court and Commission of Human Rights, European Court and Commission of Human Rights, and African Court and Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights"--Page i

International law and human rights --- Impunity

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"This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad - states' extraterritorial human rights obligations (EHRO). Taking an innovative approach, it begins with a profound legal analysis of the issue at national, supranational, and international levels and then engages in depth with counterarguments against extraterritorially applying human rights, on the basis of which it develops its own ethical justificatory theory of EHRO. The book closes the circle by showing what the practical implications of this theory for the interpretation (and possible evolvement) of human rights law would be. In a world where critiques of, and resistance to, the general idea of universal human rights are on rise, the book contributes to closing the gap between judicial and normative perspectives on EHRO by inquiring into the ethical underpinnings of this topical legal challenge. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in human rights, international law, and more broadly in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Exterritoriality. --- International and municipal law. --- International law and human rights.

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This book combines legal and philosophical perspectives to address the question of whether states are bound by human rights when they act with effects on people abroad -- states' extraterritorial human rights obligations (EHRO).

International law and human rights. --- Exterritoriality. --- International and municipal law.

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The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention's Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special education settings. Despite this major global policy change to tackle the discriminations persons with disabilities face in education, this has yet to take effect in most school systems worldwide. Focusing on the factors undermining the realization of disability rights in education, Julia Biermann probes current meanings of inclusive education in two contrasting yet equally challenged state parties to the UN CRPD: Nigeria, whose school system overtly excludes disabled children, and Germany, where this group primarily learns in special schools. In both countries, policy actors aim to realize the right to inclusive education by segregating students with disabilities into special education settings. In Nigeria, this demand arises from the glaring lack of such a system. In Germany, conversely, from its extraordinary long-term institutionalization. This act of diverting from the principles embodied in Article 24 is based on the steadfast and shared belief that school systems, which place students into special education, have an innate advantage in realizing the right to education for persons with disabilities. Accordingly, inclusion emerges to be an evolutionary and linear process of educational expansion that depends on institutionalized special education, not a right of persons with disabilities to be realized in local schools on an equal basis with others. This book proposes a refined human rights model of disability in education that shifts the analytical focus toward the global politics of formal mass schooling as a space where discrimination is sustained.

Children with disabilities --- International law and human rights. --- Education

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In international law the definition of refugee is widely seen as unclear. This book systematically analyses the interpretation, ordering, and interrelationship of the definition's components as well as the disputes that have arisen around it. The volume seeks to clarify propositions and demonstrate there is progress toward a working definition.

Refugees --- International law and human rights --- Legal status, laws, etc.