Introductory essay : the politics of international human rights law / Bård A. Andreassen
1. The closing and resilience of civic space from a human rights perspective : scope, causes, responses / Antoine Buyse
2. Governance and human rights : African challenges / Göran Hydén
3. Writing political histories of international human rights law / Steven L. B. Jensen
4. Power and civic action : mobilisation for human rights in developing societies / Gordon Crawford
5. Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association : practices and obstacles / Maina Kiai and Waruguru Kaguongo
6. The role of national human rights systems in the implementation of international human rights law / Domenico Zipoli
7. The relevance of governance and multi-level governance to the study of human rights : insights from business and human rights / Claire Methven O'Brien
8. The politics of torture : legal, social and political dynamics / Nora Sveaass
9. Rooting rights in local spaces? Transformations in gender relations and citizen engagement / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
10. The SDG agenda and human rights / Markus Kaltenborn and Wouter Vandenhole
11. Poverty and civil and political rights / Philip Alston
12. Politics of resources allocation : tax, expenditure and inequality in the human rights supervisory bodies / Hans-Otto Sano and Carlos Villalobos
13. Globalixation and human rights / Siddiqur R. Osmani
14. The influence of politics on the work of the UN human rights treaty bodies / Gentian Zyberi and Ibrahim Salama
15. International human rights law, politics and international financial institution : the case of the World Bank / Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
16. The African human rights system : a critical appraisal / Victor Oluwasina Ayeni
17. The quest for an (effective) Southeast Asian human right system / Sriprapha Petcharamesree
18. The EU human rights regime : development, actors, policy framework and effectiveness / Gabriel N. Toggenburg
19. Citizenship and international human rights law : enduring enigma of the Middle East / Nils A. Butenschøn
20. The politics of international human rights and development aid / Arne Tostensen
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