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 Human Rights Law: From Dissemination to Application: Essays in Honour of Göran Melander

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-x)   (188K)
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    • Contents
    • Introduction
  • Group Accommodation and the Challenges of Education: Multicultural or Intercultural or a Combination of the Two? (1-24) by Asbjørn Eide   (189K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. On Constructive Group Accommodation
    • 3. On Minority-Majority Conflicts and Processes
    • 4. Education as a Human Right: Its Scope and Functions
    • 5. On Education in Plural Societies
    • 6. Integration, Separation and Qualification of the Child for the Future
    • 7. Tentative Conclusions
  • The Importance of an Education in Human Rights (25-30) by M. Arthur Diakité   (115K)
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    • 1. Two Case Studies on Knowledge about the Work of the United Nations
    • 2. Knowledge about the Work of the UN in Sweden
    • 3. The Results of Those Case Studies
    • 4. Recommendations for the Next Century
  • The Education of Police in Human Rights a Framework for Human Rights Programmes Forpolice (31-46) by Ralph Crawshaw   (157K)
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    • 1. The Relationship between Human Rights and Policing
    • 2. Purposes and Principles of Human Rights Education for Police
    • 3. A Framework for Human Rights Programmes
    • 4. Concluding Remarks
  • Human Rights Education in China (47-56) by LI Baodong   (128K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Overall Situation of HREC
    • 3. Nationwide Legal-Awareness-Raising Campaign (NLARC) the Largest Human Rights Education Project in the World
    • 4. The New Course of Rule of Law in Formal Education a Fresh Input into HREC
    • 5. International Cooperation on Human Rights Education
    • 6. Conclusion
  • Human Rights Education and Research in China: the Contribution of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (57-84) by Sun Shiyan   (220K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Problems of Human Rights Education in China and the RWIs Activities
    • 3. Process and Prospects of Building Human Rights Education in China
    • 4. Conclusion
  • Human Rights Education in the Netherlands (85-98) by Cees Flinterman and Stacey Nitchov   (152K)
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    • 1. The Netherlands and the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (19952004)
    • 2. Should the Netherlands Support the Call for a Second United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education?
    • 3. Conclusion
  • The Protection of Civilian Educational Institutions During the Active Hostilities of International Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law (99-118) by David a. G. Lewis   (176K)
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    • Introduction
    • 1. The General Legal Protection of Civilian Educational Institutions as Civilian Objects or Containing Protected Persons
    • 2. The Legal Protection of the Civilian Educational Institutions or Their Contents by, with Reference to, or with Inference from Cultural Property Protections
    • 3. The Legal Protection of Civilian Educational Institutions in Connection with States General Legal Obligation to Educate the Civilian Population in IHL
    • 4. The Legal Possibilities of Red Cross Provision of Civilian Education Institutions During International Armed Conflict
    • 5. The Legal Protection of Civilian Educational Institutions in Specially Provided IHL Zones
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography Works Consulted
    • Internet WEB Based
  • The Self-reflective Human Rights Promoter (119-128) by Jonas Grimheden   (138K)
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    • 1. The Status of International Law
    • 2. Increasing Treaty Obligations
    • 3. The Full Range of Rights
    • 4. National Implementation
    • 5. Conclusions
  • Hugo Grotius and the Roots of Human Rights Law (129-148) by Ove Bring   (171K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Human Rights Related Norms before the Modern Age
    • 3. The Early Modern Age: Military Law and Legal Doctrine
    • 4. Grotius Contributions
    • 5. The Grotian Legacy
    • 6. Concluding Remarks
  • Human Rights before International Criminal Courts (149-168) by Vojin Dimitrijevic and Marko Milanovic   (189K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. General Features of International Criminal Proceedings
    • 3. Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law Appearing as Rights of the Accused
    • 4. Due Process Rights
    • 5. The Rights of Victims
    • 6. Conclusion
  • Never Again? Rwanda and the World (169-202) by Lennart Aspegren   (246K)
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    • The Role of the United Nations
    • One of the Worst Atrocities in History
    • Rwanda
    • A Short Overview of Recent Rwandese History
    • Prelude
    • The Arusha Peace Accords, August 1993
    • The Development in Autumn 1993
    • January 1994
    • February March 1994
    • April 1994
    • May 1994
    • June 1994
    • The Rwanda Tribunal
    • The Carlsson Inquiry 1999
    • Incorrect Starting-point of the United Nations
    • Shaky Preparedness
    • Anxious and Unsteady Implementation of the UNAMIR Mandate
    • Problems for the Military Intervention
    • New Signals Came Late
    • Reconstruction, Justice, Responsibility
    • United Nations Reforms Needed
    • Comments
    • Timely Response
    • United Nations Reforms under Way
    • Room for Power of Action
  • The Contested Notion of Freedom of Opinion (203-236) by Herdís Thorgeirsdóttir   (255K)
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    • 1. What Is Being Protected?
    • 2. Public Opinion Formed in the Media
    • 3. To Be Free of Indoctrination
    • 4. The Duty to Form an Opinion and Express It without Reserve
    • 5. Dignity in Context of Opinion Formation
    • 6. Hate Speech
    • 7. The Chilling Effect of Punishment and the Silencing Effect of Tolerance
    • 8. Conclusion: a Media Practicing (In)Equality?
  • From Protective Passports to Protected Entry Procedures? the Legacy of Raoul Wallenberg in the Contemporary Asylum Debate (237-250) by Gregor Noll   (160K)
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    • 1. Introduction: the Janus Face of the Access Crisis
    • 2. The Plan Economy of Resettlement
    • 3. The Legacy of Protective Passports
    • 4. Contemporary Transformations: Protected Entry Procedures
    • 5. Conclusions
  • Implementing International Human Rights Law on Behalf of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: the Record of the Nordic Countries (251-288) by Robin Lööf and Brian Gorlick   (270K)
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    • 1. Non-Refoulement
    • 2. Fair Procedure
    • 3. Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism
    • 4. Refugee Children
    • 5. Refugee Women
    • 6. Concluding Comments
  • The Legal Position of Asylum-seekers in Austria (289-310) by Lauri Hannikainen   (192K)
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    • 1. The 1990S
    • 2. Some Basic Facts about Asylum Seeking and Migration to Austria in Recent Years
    • 3. Austrias International Obligations
    • 4. Some Main Features of Austrian Asylum Laws and Practices at the End of the 20Th Century
    • 5. Overview of the First Years of the 21St Century
    • 6. Social Care of Asylum-Seekers in the First Years of the 21St Century
    • 7. Legal Aid
    • 8. Substantial Amendments to the Asylum Law, in Force since 1 May 2004
    • 9. Conclusion
    • Postscript
  • Refugees in Swedish Private International Law (311-320) by Michael Bogdan   (134K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Who Is a Refugee in Swedish Private International Law?
    • 3. Should Refugees Be Treated Differently in Private International Law than Other Foreigners?
  • Civil Freedoms and Rights in the Swedish Constitution of 1974: the Process and the Rationale (321-342) by Carl-Gustaf Andrén   (185K)
  • Various Interpretations of Human Rights for Women Challenges at United Nations Conferences (343-374) by Elisabeth Gerle   (235K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Case Study
    • 3. Women 2000 - Gender, Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty Firstcentury - Beijing + 5.
    • 4. A Brief History of the Global Campaign for Womens Human Rights
    • 5. Areas of Tension
    • 6. Various Alliances in the Protection of the Traditional Family
    • 7. Universalism versus Cultural Relativism?
    • 8. Competing Universal Claims
    • 9. Changing Political Framework for International Law
    • 10. UN Conferences and Special Sessions Make Competing Global Discourses Visible
    • 11. Human Rights in Relation to Position
    • 12. Local Stories Meet Globally
    • 13. Summary
    • 14. References
  • Implementation of International Conventions as a Socio­Legal Enterprise: Examples from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (375-392) by Håkan Hydén   (174K)
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    • 1. Problems of Implementation
    • 2. The Relation between the CRC and Domestic Law
    • 3. The Relation between Domestic Law and Norms
    • 4. The Role of Norms in Society
    • 5. Some Final Remarks
  • List of Contributors (393-396)   (99K)