Human Rights in the Private Sphere

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19970098
AutoresAndrew Clapham (0000-0002-8866-0892, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Páginas385
Fecha de publicación1993-12-09
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaHuman rights in the private sphere (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198257998.001.0001
OpenAlexW2060844323
Open LibraryOL1399825M
ISBN9780198257998
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30

This book challenges several traditional assumptions concerning human rights. In particular it challenges the presumption that the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are irrelevant for cases which concern the sphere of relations between individuals. It asks whether victims should be protected from non-state actors, and attempts to develop a coherent approach to `human rights in the private sphere'. This study concentrates on the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, and their enforcement in the courts of the United Kingdom and at the European level; at the European Commission and Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. In addition, some constitutional cases are examined from the United States and Canadian legal orders. The application of international human rights law to the private sphere has implications for the worlds of labour relations, race relations, discrimination and violence against women, and for victims of indignities everywhere. This study shows that respect for privacy need not mean excluding wrongs in the private sphere from the world of human rights

Convention · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Law and economics · Linguistic rights · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Reservation of rights · Right to property · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Civil law · Civil rights · Europe