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Human Security and International Law: Prospects and Problems. By Barbara von Tigerstrom. Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2007. 254 pages.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016
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- Book Reviews / Recensions de livres
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- Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 46 , 2009 , pp. 742 - 746
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- Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 2009
References
1 United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) at 23. Von Tigerstrom notes that the term was briefly introduced in the Human Development Report 1993.
2 For a detailed explanation of the Canadian approach to human security, see McRae, R. and Hubert, D., eds., Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001).Google Scholar
3 World Summit Outcome, UNGAOR, 60th Sess., UN Doc.A/RES/60/1 (2005) at para. 143.
4 For example, the General Assembly held a thematic debate on 22 May 2008 on human security, <http://www.un.org/ga/president/62/ThematicDebate/humansecurity.shtml>. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a Human Security Unit, <http://ochaonline.un.org/TheHumanSecurityUnit/tabid/2212/Default.aspx>. The Human Security report project publishes periodic reports on global human security, <http://www.hsrgroup.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1>. There are social sciences journals devoted to the study of human security, such as the Journal of Human Security, <http://www.rmitpublishing.com.au/jhs.html>. There are also institutes focused upon human security, such as the Institute for Human Security at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University).