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Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy: A Review of Successes and Challenges celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the Declaration and provides an analysis of how it has contributed to the protection of human rights globally. It also identifies and discusses a number of the challenges to the realisation of rights set out in the instrument. The chapters, authored by academics and practitioners in the field of human rights, provide insights into the drafting of the UDHR, human rights activism, the rights protected by the instrument, as well as the relationship between the Declaration and other human rights protective mechanisms.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Customary International Law, Amina Adanan Chapter 2: Implementing Universal Declaration of Human Rights Standards through the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism, Noelle Higgins Chapter 3: Minority Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jean Molloy Chapter 4: How Universal is the Universal Declaration? Indigenous Peoples as a Challenge to the UDHR, Ger Maguire Chapter 5: The Rights of Workers, Keith D Ewing Chapter 6: Labour Trafficking and the Challenges of Victim Identification in Ireland: Exploring the Legacy of Article 4 UDHR, Muiread Murphy, David Doyle and Clíodhna Murphy Chapter 7: Fundamental Rights and Evolving Technologies: Considering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70, Maria Helen Murphy Chapter 8: Policy Developments in Ireland: Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Siobhan Barron Chapter 9: United Nations Targeted Sanctions and Human Rights: Challenging the Narrative, Deirdre Clancy Chapter 10: The Contemporary Threat to Civil Liberties and Human Rights Activism, Liam Herrick Chapter 11: The ‘Curious Grapevine’: 70 Years of Non-governmental Organisations in the United Nations Human Rights System, Fiona McGaughey
