Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations of International Human Rights Law
1: Origins and Universality
2: Notions and Sources
3: The Legal Nature of Human Rights Obligations
4: The Scope of Application of Human Rights
5: Basic Concepts of International Humanitarian Law
Part II: Implementation of Human Rights
6: Basic Principles
7: Treaty Bodies
8: Charter Based Bodies
Part III: Substantive Guarantees
9: Protection of Human Existence: Right to Life and Subsistence Rights
10: Protection of Human Integrity: Prohibition of Ill-treatment and of Enforced Disappearance
11: Prohibition of Human Identity: Prohibition of Discrimination, and Protection of Minorities
12: Protection of Private Life
13: Protection of the Intellectual and Spiritual Sphere
14: Protection of the Human Person in the Economic Sphere
15: Protection of Persons Deprived of their Liberty and Fair Trial Guarantees
16: Protection of Participation in Political Life
17: Protection During Migration, Forced Displacement, and Flight

About the Author

Walter Kälin is Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern, and a former Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Legal Department. Since 2004 he has been Representative of the UN Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, from 2003-2008 he was a Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, and in 1991-92 was Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human
Rights in Kuwait under Iraqi Occupation.
; Jörg Künzli is Assistant Professor of Public International and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern.