• Lucid analysis of the subject in its socio-political context, chartering the development of human rights, whilst tackling today's debates and dilemmas, providing students with stimulating and thought-provoking commentary • Diverse range of materials alongside extensive text and editorial commentary, making this the definitive teaching and research tool • Questions are embedded throughout the text to encourage deeper reflection and critical enquiry • The authors are the leading figures in the field and provide students with an unmatched level of authority and accuracy New to this edition • Terrorism, national security, and human rights: Two parts of the book address this post-9/11 theme. Chapter 3, devoted to civil and political rights, examines the question of torture as broadly understood and resolved within the human rights framework before 9/11, as well as the practices, normative claims and questions that have subsequently arisen. In addition, an entirely new Chapter 5 addresses questions related to detention (including Guantanamo) and fair trial, the effects of national security concerns on economic and social rights, and justifications for emergency-based derogations. • New tasks and recent and proposed reforms of UN human rights institutions: The book discusses the new Human Rights Council, and its relation to the prior Commission and to special procedures and treaty bodies. It examines the developing role of the Security Council with respect to human rights concerns and the ongoing debate over the possibility of reforming the Council's membership and arrangements for the veto power. The expanding role of the High Commissioner is also considered. • Human rights law in relation to humanitarian laws of war: The book expands and deepens the discussion in the second edition about customary humanitarian norms, the Geneva Conventions and the Protocols. They are relevant to the ICTs' caselaw, but also to broader themes like terrorism and human rights. Chapter 5 examines the similarities and differences between relevant aspects of human rights law and humanitarian law.

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