Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.

The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples’ human rights and for sound national an