UoM logo UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
FACULTY OF LAWS

Mediterranean Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation
Tel:  (+356) 23402780   |   Fax:  (+356) 21324478 

Jordan Montpellier SIM Morocco Cyprus Catania Israel Turkey Lund EU
Ghent Egypt Bethlehem Australia Galway Denmark

Lebanon

Madrid Tunisia Rome


RECOMMENDED READING


The Faculty of Laws Library has an extensive section related to Human Rights.  The recommended volumes may be viewed online at:  http://home.um.edu.mt/laws/test/lawlib.html



FURTHER READING



Abiella, Rosalie. 1987.
  The Evolutionary Nature of Equality.  in: Mahoney, Kathleen and Sheilah Martin.  Equality and Judicial Neutrality. Toronto: Carswell.

Addo, Michael K.  1999.  Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations.  The Hague: Kluwer Law International.

Annan, Kofi/UNICEF.  2001.  We the Children, Report for the General Assembly Special Session on Children.  UNICEF, New York.

Anti-Slavery and ICFTU.  2001.  Forced Labour in the 21st Century.  London: Anti-Slavery International.

Benedek, Wolfgang and Gerd Oberleitner, Esther Kisaakye (eds.). 2002.  Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences.  London: Zed Books.

Boyle, Kevin and Juliet Sheen.  1997.  Freedom of Religion and Belief - A World Report.  Pointing-Green Publishing Services: London and New York.

Bruderlein, Claude and Theresa Stichick.  2001.  Children Facing Insecurity: New Strategies for Survival in a Global Era.  Available online at:  http://www.humansecuritynetwork.org.
 
Burgers, J. Herman and Hans Danelius. 1988.  The United Nations Convention against Torture - A Handbook on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.  Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

Butler, Frances.  2002.  Human Rights Protection: Methods and Effectiveness.  The Hague: Kluwer.

Cairo Insitute for Human Rights.  The Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement.

Craven, Matthew.  [1995] 2002.  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, A Perspective on its Development.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Daudet, Ives and Kishore Singh.  2001.  The Right to Education: An Analyis of UNESCO's Standard-Setting Instruments.  Paris. UNESCO Publishing.

Donnelly, Jack.  2003, 2nd edition.  Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.  London: Cornell University Press.

Drzewicki, Krzystof.  2001.  The Right to Work and Rights at Work.  Edited by Eide, Asbjorn, Catarina Krause and Allan Rosas.  Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, A Textbook.  Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

Evans, Malcolm D. and Rod Morgan. 1998.  Preventing Torture - A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gudmundur Alfredsson & Eide E.  1999.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A common standard of Achievement.  Martinus Jijhoff Publishers.

Gutman, Roy and David Rieff (eds.). 1999.  Crimes of War - What the Public Should Know.  New York: W.W. Norton.

Hanski R & Suski M.  Second Edition 2000.  An introduction to the International Protection of Human Rights, A textbook.  Insitute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi University.

Haq, Mahbub-ul. 1995.  Reflections on Human Development.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Hassan Bahey El Din - Sawasiah.  Freedom of Expression under the Microscope.

International Council on Human Rights Policy.  2002.  Journalism and the challenge of human rights reporting.  Geneva.

Jones Tudor.  Modern Political Thinkers and Ideas.

Keane, John.  1991.  The Media and Democracy.  Cambridge: Polity Press.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.  2000.  What is a fair trial? A basic Guide to Legal Standards and Practice.  Available online at: http://www.lchr.org/pubs/descriptions/fair_trial.pdf

Machel, Graça.  2001.  The Impact of War on Children.  C. Hurst & Co., London.

Mackerras C., McMillen D. H & Watson A.  Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China.

Maddex, Robert L. 2000.  International Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Freedoms, Abuses, and Remedies.  Washington: CQ Press.

Mann, Jonathan, Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin and George J. Annas (eds.). 1999.  Health and Human Rights.  New York: Routledge.

Marks, Stephen (ed.). 2002.  Health and Human Rights: The Educational Challenge.  Boston: François- Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.  Harvard School of Public Health.

Marshall, Paul.  2000. Religious Freedom in the World: A Global Report of Freedom and Persecution.  Broadman & Holman, Nashville, Tenn. Lerner, Natan, 2000.  Religion, Beliefs, and International Human Rights.  Orbis Books, New York.

Matsheza P & Zulu L.  Human Rights Enforcement and Implementation Mechanisms.

Moller Okin, Susan.  1998.  Justice, Gender and the Family.  New York: Basic Books.

Nowak, Manfred. 2001.  The Right to Education in the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  Edited by Eide, Asbjorn, Catarina Krause and Rosas Allan.  Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, A textbook.  Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

Perry Michael J.  The idea of Human Rights (Four Enquiries).

Prakash A. & Hart J. A.  Globalisation and Governance.

Pritchard, David (ed.).  2000.  Holding the Media Accountable - Citizens, Ethics and the Law.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ramen, Frank.  2001.  The Rights of the Accused (Individual Rights and Civic Responsibility). New York: The Rosen Publishing Group.

Reardon, Betty A. 1995.  Educating for Human Dignity, Learning about Rights and Responsibilities.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reardon, Betty A. 1997.  Tolerance - the Threshold of Peace. vol.1. Paris: UNESCO Publishing.

Said, Edward.  1997.  Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World.  London: Vintage.

Steiner, Henry J. and Philipp Alston.  2000.  International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Subramanian, S. 1998.  Measurement of Inequality and Poverty.  Oxford University Press, India.

Symonides, Janusz and Vladimir Volodin.  2001.  A Guide to Human Rights. Institutions, Standards, Procedures.  Paris: UNESCO.

Symonides, Janusz and Vladimir Volodin.  Human Rights of Women, A collection of International and Regional Normative Instruments, UNESCO.

Van Ness, Peter. Debating Human Rights, critical essays from the United States and Asia.

Waters, MalcolmGlobalisation, 2nd Edition.

Weissbrodt, David and Rüdiger Wolfrum.  1997.  The Right to a Fair Trial.  Berlin: Springer Verlag.





UNIVERSITY HOMEFACULTY OF LAWSSEARCH ]

[ FACULTY OFFICE | DEPARTMENTS | PUBLICATIONS | COURSES ]
[ DECISIONS  |  GHSL ELSA MJHR  | THESES LINKS
E-mail us at psaid01@um.edu.mt http://www.um.edu.mt/hrd


Website maintenance by Celine Grech & Stefano Filletti

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.