FULL TITLE: A Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Right Law (Occasional Paper 34)

AUTHOR(S): William G. O'Neill

PUBLISHER: Watson Institute

PLACE OF PUBLICATION: Providence RI

DATE OF PUBLICATION: 1999

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This Occasional Paper is designed as a primer on international human rights law for humanitarian practitioners. It includes sections on humanitarian and refugee law as well, examines recent developments, identifies issues for future discussion, and encourages efforts to narrow the gap between law and practice. A review of the study that appeared in the International Review of the Red Cross is reprinted in Section 8, Selected Commentary on Project Publications.

human rights, humanitarian principles, international law, UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Convention on the Rights of the Child, European Convention on Human Rights, American Convention on Human Rights, African Charter on Human and People¼s Rights, Geneva Conventions and Protocols, World War II, Cold War, post-Cold War, regional organizations, sovereignty, universality, accountability, professionalism; UN, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNICEF, European Court, OAS, International Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, International Criminal Court.

Reto Meister. "A Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Right Law" International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 81, number 836, (December 1999).