This book is the result of an October 2009 conference organized by the Maastricht Center for Human Rights. The 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, which is surprising given the detrimental impact of corruption upon human dignity. The book offers a broader view than usual 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, it 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 organizations. In this way, the book provides insights which are valuable to academics, human rights institutions, and anti-corruption practitioners.
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
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978-94-000-0085-8 (9789400000858)
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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.
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.
