New Books
| Published date | 01 December 2003 |
| Date | 01 December 2003 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/016934410302100409 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
NEW BOOKS
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
and its Optional Protocol: handbook for parliamentarians / United Nations Inter-
parliamentary Union. – Geneva: United Nations, 2003. – 121 p.
ISBN: 92-1-130226-9
This handbook is designed to familiarise men and women members of
Parliament with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women and its Protocol. It presents the background
to and content of the Convention and the Optional Protocol. It describes
the role of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, the treaty body established by the Convention to secure
implementation at the national level. The handbook also focuses on what
parliamentarians can do to ensure effective implementation of the
Convention and encourage use of the Protocol. It seeks to encourage
parliamentarians to take measures to ensure that national laws, policies,
actions, programmes and budgets reflect the principles and obligations of
the Convention.
A force profonde: the power, politics, and promise of human rights / ed. by Edward
A. Kolodziej. – Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. – 340 p.
– (Pennsylvania studies in human rights)
ISBN: 0-8122-3727-7
Presenting detailed portraits by leading authorities of the politics of human
rights across the major regions of the world, this book reveals human rights
to be a force as powerful as capitalist markets and technological innovation
in shaping global governance. Human rights issues mobilise populations
regardless of their national, ethnic, cultural, or religious differences. Yet
progress in advancing human rights globally depends decisively on the local
support and the efforts of the diverse and divided peoples of the world – a
prerequisite that remains problematic in many parts of the globe.
From Nuremberg to The Hague: the future of international criminal justice / ed. by
Sands, Philippe. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. – xiii,
192 p.
ISBN: 0-521-53676-6
This collection of essays is based on five lectures. The authors examine the
evolution of international criminal justice from its post-Second World War
origins at Nuremberg through the concrete proliferation of courts and
tribunals with international criminal law jurisdictions based in The Hague
and Arusha. Topics include its corporate and historical dimension as well as
a discussion of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the role
of national courts.
PART D: DOCUMENTATION
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 21/4, 773-777, 2003.
@ Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Printed in the Netherlands. 773
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