| Rights for Others: The Slow Home-Coming of Human Rights in the Netherlands Contributor(s): Oomen, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 110704183X ISBN-13: 9781107041837 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights - Law | Constitutional |
| Dewey: 342.492 |
| LCCN: 2013018866 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 245 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a valuable study of how rights consciousness and human rights consciousness fails to emerge, even in countries that strongly advocate human rights in their external policies, such as the Netherlands. It focuses on this important and widespread paradox about the difficulties of bringing human rights home. A valuable contribution to the global literature on human rights and socio-legal studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oomen, Barbara: - Barbara Oomen holds a Chair in the Sociology of Human Rights at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and is the Dean of University College Roosevelt. She teaches courses on topics including the origins and implementation of human rights, human rights cities and transitional justice. She is a former chair of the Netherlands Platform on Human Rights Education and a former member of the Commission on Human Rights of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs and the Netherlands National Commission for Unesco. Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Council of the Netherlands Human Rights Institute. As a scholar, Professor Oomen has published extensively on the interrelationship between law, culture and society, focusing on themes like customary law, international criminal law and human rights law. She is the recipient of the Law and Society Association dissertation award and grants from amongst others the Netherlands Science Foundation, the Fulbright, the Ford Foundation. She is currently a member of an international research network on human rights integration, and works on the rise of human rights cities. This book brings together her experience as a scholar and as an activist in the field of human rights in The Netherlands. |
