This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date. At the theoretical level, by advancing a novel general theory of human rights planning, it offers an alternative to the traditional state-centric model of planning. This new theory contains four sub-theories: contextual, substantive, procedural, and analytical ones. At the doctrinal level, by conducting a textual analysis of core human rights conventions, it reveals the scope and nature of the states' obligation to adopt a plan of action for implementing human rights. At the empirical level, a cross-case analysis of national human rights action plans of 53 countries is conducted exploring the major problems of these plans in different phases of planning and uncovering the underlying causes of these problems. At the practical level, this volume sets out how these plans should be developed and implemented, how they can be best monitored by international human rights bodies, and how to maximize their effectiveness. With discussions bridging human rights theory and practice and development discourse, this book will be a useful resource for a wide range of audiences, from academics of different disciplines (law, human rights, social policy, political science, political philosophy, legal philosophy, development studies, planning studies, socio-legal studies) to governments, human rights practitioners, and the UN human rights bodies.

About the Author
Azadeh Chalabi is a Lecturer at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool. Previously, Dr Chalabi was a Teaching Fellow at University College London (UCL), Faculty of Laws, and a Lecturer in Law at Ulster University, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI). Her main research interests include national human rights action planning, global networked governance for implementing human rights, business and human rights, the social ontological status of human rights from a critical realist perspective, and legal philosophy.

Reviews
From the simplicity of the title National Human Rights Action Planning one could be forgiven for underestimating the richness and range of this ground-breaking volume. Chalabi's multifaceted and detailed book bridges theory and practice to comprehensively examine the topic of national human rights action planning. * Amanda Cahill-Ripley, Human Rights Review *
this is a rich, detailed and rewarding treatment of an important and understudied phenomenon and should be of interest to anyone interested in the theory, but evenmore so the practice, of human rights protection. * Rory O'Connell, Human Rights Law Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198822844
Author Azadeh Chalabi
Format Hardback
Page Count 270
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 568g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm * 24mm