Abstract
This chapter outlines the role and responsibility of the state for promoting and protecting human rights. The chapter first details the state's obligation to implement internationally guaranteed human rights and describes the different processes by which customary international law norms and international human rights treaties become part of domestic law. The chapter then discusses the principal domestic legal sources of protection of human rights: constitutional and legislative provisions as well as the common law. Finally, the discussion turns to some of the key institutions within the state that have a role in the protection and promotion of human rights: the courts, the executive, the legislature, ombudsmen, and national human rights institutions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | International Human Rights Law |
Editors | Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah, Sandesh Sivakumaran, David J. Harris |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 498-517 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780199560257 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |