The book offers a comprehensive and clear introduction for students and those interested in human rights, written by a renowned human rights expert. It not only provides an introduction to the diversity of issues, actors and institutions in human rights policy and politics, but also offers assistance and suggestions on how the complex reality of human rights politics can be described and analysed with the help of political science and related disciplines. It deals with civil society engagement in human rights as well as state obligations and international efforts to protect human rights. This is an open access book.

Introduction to both human rights politics and research approaches to analyse them Includes civil society engagement, state commitments and international efforts to protect human rights Student-friendly academic introduction to human rights politics, written in an easay understandable way This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Michael Krennerich is Professor of Political Science (main focus: human rights and human rights politics). He holds a doctorate in Political Science, Philosophy and Public Law from Heidelberg University and a post-doctoral Habilitation from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Prof. Krennerich was appointed Academic Director of the FAU Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) in July 2023. Outside of academia, he is also the chairperson of the NGO "Nuremberg Human Rights Centre" and one of the coordinators of the German NGO-network on human rights "Forum Menschenrechte". Prof. Krennerich is co-founder and chief-editor of the academic journal "Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte - Journal for Human Rights", funded in 2007. He has published several monographs and anthologies on human rights as well as a large number of book chapters and journal articles on the topic.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Human Rights and Human Rights Politics.- Chapter 2: Civil society engagement.- Chapter 3: State domestic human rights politics the implementation of human rights at home.- Chapter 4: State Human Rights Foreign Policy Protecting Human Rights Abroad.- Chapter 5: Regional and global human rights policy.- Chapter 6: Closing words.