Human Security and Human Rights under International Law: The Protections Offered to Persons Confronting Structural Vulnerability

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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. Preface Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction I. Literature Review and the Current Debate II. The Argument III. Chapter Synopses Part I Conceptual Outlines 1 Human Security: An Overview I. Historical Evolution of Human Security II. The 2012 "Common Understanding" of Human Security and Beyond III. International, Regional and National Uses of Human Security IV. A Holistic Human Security: All Human Rights and a Threshold Definition 2 Human Security, International Law and Human Rights I. International Law, Risk and Structural Vulnerability II. Human Security and Human Rights 3 The Human Security-Human Rights Synergy I. Article 28 of the UDHR and Human Security: An Enabling Environment II. Human Security and "Core Content" of Human Rights III. The Framework in a Nutshell Part II Practical Applications of the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy in Legal Analysis 4 Violence against Women, Human Security and Women"s Human Rights I. Introduction II. Human Security and its Gender Implications III. VAW under Human Rights Law: Demarcating the Scope of Human Security IV. Human Security and VAW: Synergies Reinforcing Women"s Human Rights V. Some Conclusions: Gendered Human Security and the Right to Live Free from Violence 5 Human Security and Rights of Undocumented Migrants and Other Non-Citizens I. Introduction II. Undocumented migrants, other non-citizens, and human security III. International Human Rights Law on Migrants and Non-Citizens IV. A Human Security Lens to Migrant Human Rights: Legal Irregularity as a Source of Risk V. Some Conclusions: Migratory Regimes as the Ultimate Test to Human Security and Human Rights 6 Undocumented Female Migrants and Illustrative Migrant Cases I. Introduction II. Undocumented Female Migrants: Workers and Women at Risk III. Illustrative Legal Cases of a Human Security Approach to Migrants" Human Rights IV. Some Conclusions on Undocumented Migrants and Women: Human Security as the "Right to Have Access to Rights" 7 Conclusions on the Human Security-Human Rights Synergy and Prospective Routes I. Some Conceptual Conclusions II. Legal Interaction: Interpretative Synergies between Human Security and Human Rights III. Prospective Routes Bibliography Academic Sources International and Regional Legal Instruments and Practice Media and Communication Sources Index