Corruption & Human Rights

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-94-000-0085-8
Verlag: Lefebvre Belgium sa

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, held on October 22-23, 2009 in Maastricht. This event hosted scholars from different disciplines, including law, criminology and political science, who considered the various ways in which corruption and human rights violations are intertwined. This linkage has been rarely discussed thus far, which is surprising given the detrimental impact of corruption upon human dignity.

The present book offers the reader a broader view of the human rights approach towards combating corruption - including the arguments of those who oppose this approach - while it also considers how corruption may violate individual civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights. Moreover, the volume addresses the theme of corruption and human rights by looking into specific topics, such as disaster relief, gender equality, the work of international financial institutions, and the functioning of police organisations. In this way, the book provides insights which are valuable to academics, human rights institutions, and anti-corruption practitioners alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boersma, Martine

Nelen, Hans

Über Autor(innen)

Boersma, Martine
Martine Boersma (LL.M, University of Maastricht, 2005; LL.M Trade and Corporate law, 2007; LL.M Law, Labour and Health, 2007) obtained in 2012 her PhD with a dissertation on the ways in which international human rights law and international criminal law can possibly be employed to address corruption in the public sector.

She works since 2013 with SPEE Advocats. At the moment she follows at postacademic course on Company and Corporate law at the Grotius Academy.

Nelen, Hans
Hans Nelen is a criminologist and has a law degree. Between 1986 and the beginning of 2001 he was employed as a senior researcher and research supervisor at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands (WODC), mainly involved in drug, fraud, organised crime, corporate crime and police research. Between 2001 and 2006 he was a senior lecturer and senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Since 2007 Nelen has been working as a professor of criminology at the UM.