1 The United Nations and human rights&Sarah Joseph and Joanna Kyriakakis 1
2 Economic,social and cultural rights:an examination of state obligations&Manisuli Ssenyonjo 36
3 Extraterritoriality:universal human rights without universal obligations?&Sigrun Ⅰ Skogly 71
4 Non-state actors and international human rights law&Robert McCorquodale 97
5 NGOs and human rights:channels of power&Peter J Spiro 115
6 Human rights in economic globalisation&Adam McBeth 139
7 Human rights and development&Stephen P Marks 167
8 Gender and international human rights law:the intersectionality agenda&Anastasia Vakulenko 196
9 Refugees and displaced persons:the refugee definition and 'humanitarian' protection&Susan Kneebone 215
10 International criminal law&Elies van Sliedregt and Desislava Stoitchkova 241
11 The four pillars of transitional justice:a gender-sensitive analysis&Ronli Sifris 272
12 The International Court of Justice and human rights&Sandesh Sivakumaran 299
13 The Council of Europe and the protection of human rights:a system in need of reform&Virginia Mantouvalou and Panayotis Voyatzis 326
14 The Inter-American human rights system:selected examples of its supervisory work&Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon and Claudia Martin 353
15 African human rights law in theory and practice&Magnus Killander 388
16 The political economy and culture of human rights in East Asia&Michael C Davis 414
17 Islam and the realization of human rights in the Muslim world&Mashood A Baderin 440
18 Religion,belief and international human rights in the twenty-first century&Peter Cumper 467
19 DRIP feed:the slow reconstruction of self-determination for Indigenous peoples&Melissa Castan 492
20 Counter-terrorism and human rights&Alex Conte 512
21 Human rights education:a slogan in search of a definition&Paula Gerber 541
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