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The aim is to explore the protection that international human rights law offers to refugees, asylum-seekers, and the forcibly displaced. The ambition of the global rights framework is to guarantee a defined range of rights to all human beings, and thus move the basis for normative entitlement from exclusive reliance on national membership to a common humanity. This comprehensive and international perspective remains formally tied to states - acting individually or collectively - in terms of creation and implementation. The norms must find an entry point into the empirical world, and there must be clarity on responsibilities for practical delivery. It should remain unsurprising that the expectations raised by the normative reach of the law are frequently dashed in the complex and difficult human world of instrumental politics, power, and conflict. The intention here is to outline the international human rights law context, and indicate the value and limitations for the protection of refugees and asylum-seekers. A question is then raised about possible reform.

This article uses the example of Northern Ireland to illustrate how political mobilization may be deployed to challenge structural forms of inequality. The experience suggests that regulatory models can be designed for particular contexts to shape approaches that present challenges to dominant economic and political orthodoxies. The intention is not to overstate the significance of this specific transitional context but simply to highlight elements that might feature in any attempt to mobilize successfully around human rights and equality, and against aspects of neoliberal thinking.

This article examines the development of affirmative action and equality policies targeted at the two main ethno-national communities in Northern Ireland, as an example of 'contextualised equality'. The argument places particular weight on a politics of legal mobilisation. The article suggests that the ability to connect post-1998 reforms, in practical and symbolic ways, to overriding inter-communal narratives was often a determining factor in identifying those elements of the Good Friday Agreement which advanced, or were constructed as achievable. The argument has implications for understanding how equality debates will progress, and explaining why certain agendas appear to 'succeed' and others 'fail'.

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Rights versus democracy? : The Bill of Rights in plurinational states / Stephen Tierney -- Managing conflict through democracy / Samuel Issacharoff -- Ethnicity and competing nations of rights / Yash Ghai -- Independent or dependent? : Constitutional courts in divided societies / Sujit Choudhry and Richard Stacey -- Judicial empowerment in divided societies : the Northern Ireland bill of rights process in comparative perspective / Alex Schwartz and Colin Harvey -- The nature and effects of constitutional rights in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / David Feldman -- Constitutional change and the quest for legal inclusion in Nepal / Mara Malagodi -- The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Canadian unity / Daniel Weinstock -- Education, crucifixes and headscarves : the appropriation of meanings and the content of rights in divided societies / Ruth Rubio-Marin and Leonardo Álvarez-Álvarez -- Forcing consensus : challenges for rights-based constitutionalism in Chile / Amaya Alvez Marin.

The past two decades witnessed a global proliferation of national human rights and equality bodies. Yet the research literature remains critical of their performance, positing a series of explanations for the gap between the expectations of civil society and the contribution they make. Through a comparative analysis of six statutory human rights and equality bodies in the United Kingdom and Ireland, this article explores the range of factors that shape their performance.

Refugee law is going through momentous times, as dictatorships tumble, revolutions simmer, and the 'Arab Awakening' gives way to the spread of terror from Syria to the Sahel in Africa. This compilation of topical chapters, by some of the leading scholars in the field, cover major themes of rights, security, the UNHCR, international humanitarianism, and state interests and sets out to map new contours. The concerns over our security are replacing humanitarian concerns over the plight of others. Securitization, exclusion, and the internal relocation of genuine refugees are now the favoured polic

1.Foundations --Public finance, maximum available resources and human rights /Diane Elson, Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz --Putting ESR-based budget analysis into practice: addressing the conceptual challenges /Aoife Nolan --Let them eat cake: socio-economic rights in an age of austerity /Paul O'Connell --Resourcing rights: combating tax injustice from a human rights perspective /Ignacio Saiz --2.Governance --Recovering the history of human rights: public finances and human rights /Rory O'Connell --Better on the margins? A critique of mainstreaming economic and social rights /Eoin Rooney and Colin Harvey --3.Group-specific work --Budget for children /Enakshi Ganguly Thukral --Equality proofing the budget: lessons from the experiences of gender budgeting? /Sheila Quinn --4.Analysis in action --Right to adequate housing: a case study of the social housing budget in Northern Ireland /Eoin Rooney and Mira Dutschke --Assessing the impact of the public spending cuts: taking human rights and equality seriously /James Harrison and Mary-Ann Stephenson.