Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law : Approaches of Regional and International Systems.

Intro -- Towards Convergence in International Human Rights Law: Approaches of Regional and International Systems -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Instruments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Rights -- 1 The Duty to Investigate Right to Life Violations across Three Regional Systems: Harmonisation or Fragmentation of International Human Rights Law? -- 2 The Death Penalty as Addressed by Regional and International Human Rights Bodies: Exploring Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilisation and Harmonisation -- 3 International Trends in the Recognition of Abortion Rights -- 4 The European Court of Human Rights' Recourse to External Legal Materials When Interpreting and Applying the Right to Private Life -- 5 Minority Sexual Orientation as a Challenge to the Harmonised Interpretation of International Human Rights Law -- 6 Concepts of Substantive Gender Equality: Looking for Coherence among the Regional and International Perspectives -- 7 Judges of the World, United? Collective Aspects of the Right to Work in Regional Human Rights Systems -- 8 The Influence of International Human Rights Law on the Right to Health Jurisprudence of the European Region -- 9 Is the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination the De Facto Minority Rights Treaty? -- 10 Children's Rights under Regional Human Rights Law - A Tale of Harmonisation? -- Part 2: Themes -- 11 Affording States a Margin of Appreciation: Comparing the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- 12 Human Rights Bodies and International Humanitarian Law: Common but Differentiated Approaches.

13 The Use Made by the Organs of the European Convention on Human Rights of Reference to the Views of Other Human Rights Bodies in Addressing the Scope of the Extraterritorial Applicability of the Convention -- 14 State Obligations with Regard to the Extraterritorial Activities of Companies Domiciled on Their Territories -- 15 Inherent and Implied Powers of Regional Human Rights Tribunals -- Part 3: Systems -- 16 International Human Rights Law: Towards Pluralism or Harmony? The Opportunities and Challenges of Coexistence: The View from the UN Treaty Bodies -- 17 Co-existence and Confidentiality: The Experience of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture: Harmony and Human Rights: The Music of the Spheres -- 18 Human Rights through the Backdoor: The Contribution of Special Procedures to the Normative Coherence and Contradictions of International Human Rights Law -- 19 A European Respect for the Opinions of Mankind? -- Appendix: Harmonising the Jurisprudence of Regional and International Human Rights Bodies: A Literature Review -- Index.

In this edited collection, leading jurists and scholars examine how far regional and international human rights bodies borrow from and influence each other in their decisions and practices - and whether international human rights law is heading towards fragmentation or greater coherence.

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