European Yearbook on Human Rights 14

by Benedek, Wolfgang; Benoît-Rohmer, Florence; Karl, Wolfram; Kettemann, Matthias; Nowak, Manfred

• ISBN13: 9781780682556
• ISBN10: 1780682557
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-06-15
• Publisher: Intersentia

Summary

This survey of human rights in Europe and beyond identifies an increased tension in the protection of economic, social, and cultural rights. Vulnerable groups - from migrants to children, from victims of human trafficking to victims of gender-based violence - have also moved squarely into the center of both the discourse and practice of human rights protection. This volume contextualizes these trends. Defining and discussing key developments in human rights, the 2014 Yearbook brings together more than 30 contributions by renowned human rights experts that provide a much-needed overview and sought-after analysis. Edited jointly by representatives of four major European human rights research, teaching and training institutions, the book extensively covers political and legal developments in the field of the three main organizations charged with securing human rights in Europe: the EU, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. A further section contains contributions on the role of civil society in human rights protection and on cross-cutting topics. The impressive array of authors - academics, diplomats, practitioners, and human rights experts - makes the book essential reading for anyone interested in human rights in Europe and beyond. [Subject: European Law, Human Rights Law]

Author Biography

Wolfgang Benedek currently holds a position as Head of Institute of International Law and International Relations and as Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of the University of Graz. His main research interests are in the fields of human rights, human security and the regulation of the internet as well as international economic law where he has a focus on the WTO and Global Governance. He also has a specific interest in South-Eastern Europe and Africa. He has been involved in several research projects funded by national and European research foundations. He is the executive editor of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. He is teaching at all levels in international law and human rights law, international economic and development law, human rights in the Balkans, human security and the governance of the information society. He is long-time chair of the NGO World University Service (WUS) Austria.

The EIUC Secretary General since 2009 is Florence Benoît-Rohmer of the University of Strasbourg. She has served as Vice-President of EIUC from 2002 till 2008, and as French national director of the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) since its inception in 1997. Florence Benoît-Rohmer holds a PhD in Public Law. She was President of the Université Robert Schuman (URS), Strasbourg, from 2003 to 2008. She is Professor at the Law Faculty in Strasbourg, Director of the Master programme in Human Rights at the University of Strasbourg. She has been acting as human rights expert for the Council of Europe and EU, was member of the European Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights set up by the European Commission, and is currently president of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU. She is also member of the scientific committees of several international journals specialised in human rights, and in particular minority rights.

Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard) is post-doc fellow at the Cluster of Excellence „Normative Orders” at the University of Frankfurt/Main and lecturer at the Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz. Matthias studied law in Graz and Geneva and was Fulbright and Boas Scholar at Harvard Law School. He has worked for the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on issues of human rights law and the Internet. The scientific lead of international multistakeholder initiatives on the law and politics of the Internet, he publishes regularly on issues of Internet and law in leading academic and popular outlets. 

Manfred Nowak received his PhD from the Law School of the University of Vienna in 1973 ad his LL.M from Columbia University (New York) in 1975. He was UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, UN expert on enforced disappearances and judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is/was visiting professor at the Danish Institute of Human Rights in Copenhagen, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights at Lund University, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, the American University in Washington, D.C., Abo Akademie in Turku and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (Director of SIM from 1987 to 1989). He is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Vienna University and Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna. He is author of more than 500 publications in the field of human rights, public and international law.