II Acquisitions
| DOI | 10.1177/016934410802600215 |
| Date | 01 June 2008 |
| Published date | 01 June 2008 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
Netherlands Q uarterly of Human R ights, Vol. 26/2 (2008) 303
II ACQUISITIONS
Casting the Net Wider: Human rights, development and new duty- bearers / Margot E.
Salomon and Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole (eds.). – Antwerp: Intersentia,
2007. – xxi, 462 p.
ISBN: 978–90–5095–718–2
is volume brings together scholars and practitioners to address the question as to
whether, in our globalised world, the protection of economic, social and cultural rights
in t he South has or should become t he duty of actors be yond the State . It explores
the role of actors such as tra nsnational business, internat ional nancial i nstitutions,
supranational orga nisations and in uential States who are involved in or impact on
human rights in developing countries. In adopting a ‘responsibilities approach’, it
seeks to clarif y the nature, content and scope of their contemporary duties.
Disabled people and the right to life: the protection and violation of disabled people’s
most basic human rights / Luke Clements and Janet Read (eds.). – London: Routledge,
2008. – xv, 272 p.
ISBN: 978–0-415–40713–7
Human rights has increasingly come to be seen as a signicant framework, both to aid
understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social,
legal and political measu res to counter it. is book us es this fr amework to explore
how disabled people’s right to life is understood in dierent national contexts and the
ways in which they are – or are not – aorded protection under t he law, emphasising
the social, cultural and historical forces a nd circums tances wh ich have promoted
disabled people’s right to l ife or legitimated its violation. Written by an international
panel of contributors including indiv iduals holding public oce, academics from the
elds of law, social policy, disabil ity studies and bioethics as wel l as practitioners and
activists attempting to fur ther disabled people’s human r ights, this interdi sciplinary
book will be of interest to students and researchers of disabi lity, law, social policy and
human rights.
From human rig hts to international criminal law: studies in honour of an Afr ican
jurist, the late judge Laïty Kama / Emmanuel Decaux a nd Adama Dieng and Ma lick
Sow (eds.). – Leiden: Martinus Nijho, 2007. – vii, 774 p.
ISBN: 978–90–04–16055–2
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