II Acquisitions
| Published date | 01 December 2005 |
| DOI | 10.1177/016934410502300416 |
| Date | 01 December 2005 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
II ACQUISITIONS
American exceptionalism and human rights / ed. by Michael Ignatieff. – Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2005. – 353 p.
ISBN: 0-691-11648-2
With the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, the most controversial
question in world politics fast became whether the United States stands within the
order of international law or outside it. Does America still play by the rules it helped
create? This book addresses this question as it applies to US behaviour in relation to
international human rights. With essays by 11 experts in such fields as international
relations and international law, it seeks to show and explain how America’s
approach to human rights differs from that of most other Western nations.
Economic, social and cultural rights: handbook for national human rights institutions /
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. – New York: United Nations,
2005. – x, 138 p. – (Professional training series; no. 12)
ISBN: 92-1-154163-8
This handbook is intended to help national human rights institutions maximise the
effectiveness of their functions and powers in addressing economic, social and
cultural rights. It discusses ways in which national human rights institutions can
become more effective in protecting and promoting economic, social and cultural
rights. It examines how national institutions’ legal mandates can be interpreted to
incorporate economic, social and cultural rights within their jurisdictions, how their
functions and powers can be exercised more appropriately in regard to these rights,
how they can use their resources most efficiently and effectively and how they can
implement economic, social and cultural rights in the political and social context in
which they operate.
Food and Human Rights in Development. Volume I: Legal and institutional dimensions and
selected topics / ed. by Wenche Barth Eide and Uwe Kracht. – Antwerpen: Intersentia,
2005. – xxxvi, 528 p. – (Food and human rights in development; vol. 1)
ISBN: 90-5095-385-9
The right to adequate food is firmly established in international human rights law. It
is among those most cited in solemn declarations and most violated in practice. This
first of two volumes gives direction for future activities to promote and protect the
right to adequate food for all. It has contributions from some 15 authors who have
all been directly involved, from different angles, in the advancement of the right to
food and related human rights over the past years. Besides introducing the concept
of the right to food and elaborating on its theoretical basis and meaning in
development, it provides several recent examples from work both at the national
and international level to apply it in practical situations, and with a special view to
how to go about identifying the corresponding obligations of States and
complementary duties and responsibilities of non-State actors and international
organisations. Finally, several chapters address the right to food under special
circumstances and for special groups needing particular attention.
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 23/4 (2005) 701
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