Book Review: Human Rights: Chinese and Dutch Perspectives
| DOI | 10.1177/092405199601400221 |
| Date | 01 June 1996 |
| Published date | 01 June 1996 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
NQHR
2/1996
The European Union and human rights. -Neuwahl, Nanette A. ; Rosas, Allan (eds.). - The
Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1995. - xii, 336 p.
ISBN: 90-411-0124-1
In this volume experts give their views on a broad range
of
issues, such as: property
rights, the freedom
of
expression for commercial actors, the principle
of
government
openness, the right to vote and to be elected, freedom
of
movement, social rights as
general principles
of
Community Law, workers' rights
of
participation, family rights and
the position
of
women in the family, expulsion and extradition in and from the EU, the
protection
of
minorities, the protection
of
cultural heritage, foreign policy and
extraterritoriality. The judicial protection under Union Law is compared with standards
of
protection under the European Convention on Human Rights and with national
constitutional law. The meaning
of
the Maastricht treaty is also discussed.
Human Rights: Chinese
and
Dutch Perspectives. -Baehr, Peter R . ...[et at.] (eds.). - The
Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1996. - ix, 160 p.
ISBN:90-411-0210-8
This book contains the papers which were presented at a symposium on human rights held
in September 1994 in Beijing and which was organised within the framework
of
an
academic programme
of
cooperation between the Chinese Academy
of
Social Sciences and
the Royal Netherlands Academy
of
Sciences. The focal point
of
most
of
the papers is the
Vienna Declaration and Programme
of
Action - adopted during the 1993 Vienna World
Conference on Human Rights. Taking the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of
Action
as a point
of
departure the following main themes were the subject
of
discussion at the
symposium and are more or less similarly reflected in the present volume: universality
versus particularity; individual rights versus collective rights; national sovereignty and
matters
of
international concern; ratification
of
international treaties.
International human rights in context: law, politics. morals. -Steiner, Henry J. ; Alston,
Philip. - Oxford: Oxford University, 1996. - xxxix, 1245 p.
ISBN: 0-19-825426-1
This interdisciplinary book is intended for teaching purposes.
It
introduces topics
of
public
international law that are vital to understanding human rights issues.
It
stresses throughout
the relationships among human rights norms, processes, and institutions, as well as
relationships between international and internal orders. The broad themes include
universalism and cultural relativism, rights or duties as organising conceptions, the
relevance
of
the private/public distinction, and transformed conceptions
of
statehood and
sovereignty. The topics include civil and political rights, economic and social rights,
intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions, universal and regional regimes,
human rights and foreign policy, democratisation, women's rights, self-determination and
autonomy regimes, individual criminal responsibility, and development. The diverse
materials
of
this book consist
of
extensive author's text and questions; primary materials
ranging from intergovernmental or NGO reports to treaties, resolutions and decisions; and
excerpts from readings in law and legal theory as well as other pertinent fields such as
international relations, moral and political theory, and anthropology.
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