30 mars 2014

OUVRAGE : The Realisation of Human Rights: When Theory Meets Practice. Studies in Honour of Leo Zwaak

Catherine MAIA

This book is organised into six parts: International Human Rights Law in General; European Human Rights Law; Inter-American and African Human Rights Law; International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law, Extraordinary Rendition and Forced Disappearances; and the International and National Protection of Human Rights. As the book reflects, Leo Zwaak’s work has touched on a wide range of fields, spanning the universal, regional and national levels. 

Human rights are not aspirational, rather they are meant to be realised. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a growing number of treaties, declarations, resolutions and other materials has been produced and a wide array of international institutions have been created to monitor the implementation of human rights. Through these documents and institutions the realisation of human rights begins.

However, the struggle to ensure the rights and freedoms of individuals is never an easy one. It requires the commitment of those who believe in the core nature of human rights. One such person has been Leo Zwaak. The idea behind The Realization of Human Rights: When Theory Meets Practice is that throughout Leo Zwaak’s professional life he dedicated himself to the realisation of human rights. Whether acting as an encylopaedia of knowledge when teaching human rights at the university or providing judicial trainings on the five continents, Leo Zwaak has impacted the world of human rights in many ways.





Foreword/Voorwoord by Johan Vande Lanotte

Introduction by the Editors

PART I. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN GENERAL

The International Law of Human Rights Two Decades After the Second  World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

Article 1 UDHR: From Credo to Realisation
Bas de Gaay Fortman

Some Reflections on Balancing Conflicting Human Rights
Pieter van Dijk

Initial Assessment of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
Education and Training
Gudmundur Alfredsson

PART II. EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

The Role of Dialogue in the Relationship Between the European Court of Human Rights and National Courts
Michael O’Boyle

Significantly Insignificant? The Life in the Margins of the Admissibility Criterion in Article 35(3)(b) European Convention on Human Rights
Antoine Buyse

The Stubbornness of the European Court of Human Rights’ Margin of Appreciation Doctrine
Fried van Hoof

Are Judges of the European Court of Human Rights so Qualified that they are in No Need of Initial and In-Service Training?
A ‘Straatsburgse Myj/mering’ (Myjer’s Musings from Strasbourg) for Leo Zwaak
Egbert Myjer

PART III. INTER-AMERICAN AND AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

A Barren Effort? The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Jus Cogens
Diana Contreras-Garduno and Ignacio Alvarez-Rio

Strengthening or Straining the Inter-American System on Human Rights
Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón

Preventing Human Rights Violations: Recommendations for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Interim Measures Before the Inter-American and African Human Rights Commissions
Clara Burbano-Herrera, Frans Viljoen and Yves Haeck

The Recent Practice of the Inter-American Defence Attorney Figure During the Proceedings Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Yuria Saavedra-Alvarez

From the Non-Discrimination Clause to the Concept of Vulnerability in International Human Rights Law: Advancing on the Need for Special Protection of Certain Groups and Individuals
Romina I. Sijniensky

The Debt of the Peruvian State Towards the Inter-American System of Human Rights
Ernesto de la Jara Basombrío

PART IV. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

The Right to Truth in International Criminal Proceedings: An Indeterminate Concept from Human Rights Law
Brianne McGonigle Leyh
Disputes over Exemplary Justice: Kenyans Before the International Criminal Court
Edwin Bikundo

Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: A Plea for Mutual Respect and a Common Sense Approach
Terry D. Gill

A Battle over Elasticity – Interpreting the Concept of ‘Concrete and Direct Military Advantage Anticipated’ under International Humanitarian Law
Yutaka Arai-Takahashi

PART V. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION AND FORCED DISAPPEARANCES

Extraordinary Rendition and the Security Paradigm
John A.E. Vervaele

Enforced Disappearance as Continuing Crimes and Continuing Human Rights Violations
Jeremy Sarkin

Why is Establishing a Systematic Practice in the Adjudication of Enforced Disappearance Conducive to Providing Protection against this Crime?
Marthe Lot Vermeulen

PART VI. INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Partnership between National Human Rights Institutions and Human Rights Treaty Bodies in the Implementation of Concluding Observations
Ineke Boerefijn

Strategic Litigation by Equality Bodies and National Human Rights Institutes to Promote Equality
Jenny E. Goldschmidt

The International Responsibility of the State for the Conduct of Indigenous Legal Systems: the Case of Ecuador
Oswaldo R. Ruiz-Chiriboga

Unconstitutionality of the Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights by Venezuela
Carlos Ayala Corao

Independence of the Judiciary in Turkey: Institutional Reforms after 1999
Birsen Erdogan


Contributing Authors 



The Realisation of Human Rights: When Theory Meets Practice

Yves HAECK, Brianne McGONIGLE LEYH, Clara BURBANO HERRERA, Diana CONTRERAS GARDUNO (eds.), The Realisation of Human Rights: When Theory Meets Practice. Studies in Honour of Leo Zwaak, Cambridge, Intersentia (554 pp.)

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