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Argues that Israel's 1993 agreement to negotiate with the Palestinians in 1996 on the city's status incurred an obligation under international law to do nothing prior to that date that could negate resolution of the issue, and thus the new East Jerusalem housing it built for Jews in 1993-95 violated the agreement.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Glossary of key terms used in this research -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Setting the scene -- 1.3 Jurisdictional approaches -- 1.4 Developing the existing research -- 1.5 Research questions -- 1.6 Research aims -- 1.7 Research approach and methodology -- 1.8 The importance of Europe for this research -- 1.9 Research structure -- 1.9.1 Chapter Two: Mapping the policy issues -- 1.9.2 Chapter Three: A comparative perspective -- 1.9.3 Chapter Four: Surrogacy and human rights

"This book presents a comprehensive examination of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and provides an analysis of the level of its reflection in regional human rights systems. The work explores the development of the role of the individual in human rights protection since the 1998 United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. It locates the nature, activities and need for protection of human rights defenders within the current international legal framework and outlines the place and scope for a specific right to promote and protect human rights. It traces the origins of the right and the main international instruments that define it, both at national and international level. Finally, it considers the impact that the right to defend human rights can have on constitutional and international law. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers working in the areas of International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law"--

"This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals he shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target. With its attention to the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation and legitimation of violence, this book will be relevant to a large community of researchers in international law, international relations, critical military studies, contemporary counterinsurgency operations and the sociology of law"--

Journeys in search of refuge -- Refuge as a concept and place -- Using human and refugee rights to resist encampment -- Using human rights law to travel in search of refuge in Europe -- Direct challenges to regional containment instruments -- Seeking refuge as a Palestinian refugee -- Resisting the prospect of refuge in an IDP camp -- Elusive refuge.

Looking at global case studies this collection explores the interplay between feminist activism and land reform. It investigates at the successes as well as the failures of reform efforts, the processes of law making and feminist legal advocacy as well as the ways in which these processes have been shaped by historical and socio-political contexts

Following the internationalisation of the indigenous rights movement, a growing number of African hunter-gatherers, pastoralists and other communities have adopted indigenousness in claiming special legal protection. Their legal claims as the indigenous peoples of Africa are backed by many international actors such as indigenous rights activists, donors and scholars. However, indigenous identification is resisted by many African governments, some community members and some anthropologists. Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda explores the sources of indigenous identification in Africa and its legal and poli

"This book argues that activists in Common Law Africa have to design LGB strategic litigation in such a way as to fit with the exogenous conditions in their countries if strategic litigation is to spur social change. It concludes by identifying the key factors that need to be taken into account as LGB litigation strategies are being designed and developed."--