Human security provides one of the most important protections; a person-centred axis of freedom from fear, from want and to live with dignity. It is surprising given its centrality to the human experience, that its connection with human rights has not yet been explored in a truly systematic way. This important new book addresses that gap in the literature by analysing whether human security might provide the tools for an expansive and integrated interpretation of international human rights. The examination takes a two-part approach. Firstly, it evaluates convergences between human security and all human rights - civil, political, economic, social and cultural - and constructs an investigative framework focused on the human security-human rights synergy. It then goes on to explore its practical application in the thematic cores of violence against women and undocumented migrants in the law and case-law of UN, European, Inter-American and African human rights bodies. It takes both a legal and interdisciplinary approach, recognising that human security and its relationship with human rights cuts across disciplinary boundaries. Innovative and rigorous, this is an important contribution to human rights scholarship.
Author(s): Dorothy Estrada-Tanck
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 359
Tags: Human Security, Human Rights, International Law, Structural Vulnerability
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Table of Contents......Page 20
Introduction......Page 26
I. Literature Review and the Current Debate......Page 29
II. The Argument......Page 34
III. Chapter Synopses......Page 39
Part I Conceptual Outlines......Page 44
I. Historical Evolution of Human Security......Page 46
II. The 2012 "Common Understanding" of Human Security and Beyond......Page 52
III. International, Regional and National Uses of Human Security......Page 56
IV. A Holistic Human Security: All Human Rights and a Threshold Definition......Page 59
I. International Law, Risk and Structural Vulnerability......Page 71
II. Human Security and Human Rights......Page 97
I. Article 28 of the UDHR and Human Security: An Enabling Environment......Page 111
II. Human Security and "Core Content" of Human Rights......Page 115
III. The Framework in a Nutshell......Page 122
Part II Practical Applications of the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy in Legal Analysis......Page 132
I. Introduction......Page 134
II. Human Security and its Gender Implications......Page 136
III. VAW under Human Rights Law: Demarcating the Scope of Human Security......Page 148
IV. Human Security and VAW: Synergies Reinforcing Women"s Human Rights......Page 156
V. Some Conclusions: Gendered Human Security and the Right to Live Free from Violence......Page 177
I. Introduction......Page 180
II. Undocumented migrants, other non-citizens, and human security......Page 184
III. International Human Rights Law on Migrants and Non-Citizens......Page 198
IV. A Human Security Lens to Migrant Human Rights: Legal Irregularity as a Source of Risk......Page 225
V. Some Conclusions: Migratory Regimes as the Ultimate Test to Human Security and Human Rights......Page 237
I. Introduction......Page 239
II. Undocumented Female Migrants: Workers and Women at Risk......Page 240
III. Illustrative Legal Cases of a Human Security Approach to Migrants" Human Rights......Page 249
IV. Some Conclusions on Undocumented Migrants and Women: Human Security as the "Right to Have Access to Rights"......Page 273
I. Some Conceptual Conclusions......Page 276
II. Legal Interaction: Interpretative Synergies between Human Security and Human Rights......Page 280
III. Prospective Routes......Page 302
Academic Sources......Page 307
International and Regional Legal Instruments and Practice......Page 324
Media and Communication Sources......Page 341
Index......Page 344
