Recent Publications on International Human Rights
| Date | 01 September 2016 |
| Published date | 01 September 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/016934411603400306 |
| Subject Matter | New Documentation |
Netherlands Q uarterly of Human Ri ghts, Vol. 34/3, 274–280, 2016.
274 © Netherlands I nstitute of Human Rig hts (SIM), Printed in the Net herlands.
NEW DOCUMENTATION
RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Changing migration pattern s in the Mediterranean / Lorenzo Kamel. – 2015. – 214 p.
ISBN: 88–6812–596–X
is volume has been written by lead ing scholars within the New-Med Research
Network with the aim to foster b oth the academic and the pol icy debate on the changing
migratory scenarios in and around the Mediterranean. It looks at t he evolution of
human mobility towards Med iterranean Europe over the past decades and ana lyses
the historical, demog raphic, social, psycho-socia l, economic, and political dimen sions
of these phenomena. e concluding chapters asse ss the role of the EU and advances
proposals for a long-term European migrat ion policy. – See more at: www.iai.it/en/
pubblicazioni/changi ng-migration-patterns-mediterra nean#sth ash.hr vuf ZLS.dpu f
A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights / Ha nna Wei. – 2016. – 260-xvi p.
ISBN: 2210–2132
In A Dialogical C oncept of Minority Rig hts, Hanna H. Wei demonstrates that a
more plausible and realistic concept of minority rights should consi st of not only
rights against t he state but also rights against the group. She formulates and defends
three separate but related rights to d ialogue, and thoroughly analyses how the y may
operate not only to maintain a hea lthy balance bet ween the minorities’ need to b e
cultural ly distinct a nd their need to relate to and belong in the la rger society, but
also that they add ress the generalisations and presuppositions on which the debate of
multicultura lism has been based, and constitute t he rst step of a possible s olution to
many of the theoretical a nd practical di cu lties of minority protection.
Does Torture Work? / John W. Schiemann. – Ox ford University Press, 2016. – 336 p.
ISBN: 0–19–026236–2
When the Senate released its so-c alled “Torture Report “ in December 2014 the
world would learn that, for years, t he CIA had used unimaginably bruta l methods to
interrogate its prisoners – o en without yielding any useful or truthful information.
e agency had long and adamantly defended its use of torture, staunchly arguing
that it was not only just but necessar y for the country’s safet y. And even amid the
revelations of the report, quest ions abound about whether torture can be considered a
justi able tool of national secur ity.
Is interrogational torture a n e ective method of extracting information? How
good does the information ex tracted need to be for the tor ture to be considered
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