
National Security, Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-138-30906-7 (ISBN)
Description
The book deals with the complicated relationships between national security and human rights, and between public health and human rights. Its premise is the fact that national security and public health are both included in human rights instruments as 'exceptions' to the human rights therein sanctioned, yet they can arguably be considered as human rights themselves and be equally valuable. The book therefore asks to what extent the protection of the individual could - or should - be overridden to enable the protection of the national security or public health of the general public. Both practice and case law have shown that human rights risk being set aside when they clash with the protection of national security or public health. Through theoretical analysis and practical examples, the book addresses the conflicts that arise when the concepts of national security and public health are used - and abused - and other rights, including freedom of speech, procedural freedoms, individual health, are violated as a consequence. It provides many interesting findings on the values that states are ready to protect - and forego - to ensure their safety, which can contribute to the ongoing debate on the protection of human rights. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-30906-7 (9781138309067)
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Myriam Feinberg | Laura Niada-Avshalom | Brigit Toebes
National Security, Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?
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National Security, Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?
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Persons
Myriam Feinberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel. She was previously teaching and conducting research at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and King's College London, UK.
Laura Niada-Avshalom is Learning Adviser at the University at Westminster, London, UK.
Brigit Toebes is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Laura Niada-Avshalom is Learning Adviser at the University at Westminster, London, UK.
Brigit Toebes is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Editor
University of Haifa, Israel
University of Westminster, London, UK
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Content
Foreword: National security and public health: exceptions to human rights? 1. International counterterrorism - national security and human rights: conflicts of norms or checks and balances? 2. Protecting 'national security' whistleblowers in the Council of Europe: an evaluation of three approaches on how to balance national security with freedom of expression 3. Resisting accountability: transitional justice in the post-9/11 United States 4. From the barrier to refugee law: national security's transformation from a balancing right to a background element in the realms of Israeli constitutionalism 5. The use of incapacitating chemical agent weapons in law enforcement 6. Human rights and public health: towards a balanced relationship 7. WHO International Health Regulations and human rights: from allusions to inclusion 8. Some scepticism on the right to health: the case of the provision of medicines