Description
Summary:"
"This book ... 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"--Publisher's description
Physical Description:227 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0367208997
1032428708
9780367208998
9781032428703