International Human Rights Law and Practice

Ilias Bantekas is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Brunel University and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He has advised governments, international organisations and NGOs in most fields of human rights and international law. Lutz Oette is Counsel at REDRESS, an international human rights organisation seeking justice for torture survivors, and lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He has pursued human rights cases before several regional and international bodies and engaged with a range of actors in comparative research, advocacy and reform projects aimed at developing and implementing international human rights standards.

1. International human rights law and notions of human rights: foundations, achievements and challenges; 2. International human rights: the normative framework; 3. Human rights in practice; 4. The United Nations charter system; 5. The UN human rights treaty system; 6. Regional human rights treaty systems; 7. Individual complaints procedures; 8. Civil and political rights; 9. Economic, social and cultural rights; 10. Group rights: self-determination, minorities and indigenous peoples; 11. Women's rights; 12. The right to development, poverty and related rights; 13. Victims' rights and reparation; 14. The application of human rights in armed conflict and the international criminalisation process; 15. Human rights and counter-terrorism; 16. Non-state actors and human rights; 17. Globalisation and its impact on human rights.