Myth or Lived Reality

Chapters How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments & Refugees in Turkey by Elif Durmu and Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From 'Hobby of the Few' to the Few Behind the Hobby by Tihomir Sabchev, Sara Miellet, and Elif Durmu are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com

This book seeks to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, whether human rights are, in fact, a myth or a lived reality. Over the years much has been said about their effectiveness or, rather, their ineffectiveness.

This perceived ineffectiveness relates not only to institutional challenges at the international level, but also to national implementation mechanisms and processes. In addition, questions have arisen as to whether individuals or groups of individuals actually benefit from the normative guarantees contained in humanrights law and whether human rights as legal constructs can be effectively translated into better outcomes.

This volume can be distinguished from the existing literature by virtue of the fact that it not only brings together scholars at different stages of their careers, but also that it incorporates contributions that adopt different methodological perspectives and cover a variety of topics.

The book should prove of great benefit to human rights researchers, human rights practitioners, NGOs and students. Claire Boost is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University. Andrea Broderick is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University. Fons Coomans is a Professor at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace, Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University. Roland Moerland is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.

Provides an explanation of what human rights law in practice does or does not mean in specific cases and situations Offers different methodological perspectives - quantitative analysis with regard to the domestic effectiveness of the right to education; qualitative methods; and legal doctrinal methods, combined with socio-legal research Provides a cross-border/international perspective as the topics covered examine the effectiveness of human rights across various borders and offer diverse interpretations and examples of (in)effectiveness and human rights Covers a wide variety of topics ranging from immigration/refugees and children's rights to socio-economic rights, education and housing

Autorentext

Claire Boost is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.
**Andrea Broderick is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University.

**Fons Coomans is a Professor at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace, Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University.

**Roland Moerland** is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. The (In)Effectiveness of Human Rights: Mapping Existing Research - An Introduction.- Part I. The Effectiveness of International Law: Institutions and Processes.- Chapter 2. Effectiveness of the ICESCR Complaint Mechanism - An Analysis and Discussion of the Spanish Housing Rights Cases.- Chapter 3. Effective Distance: A Polish Dissident's Encounter with Amnesty International and its Western-born Rules.- Part II. The Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring and Implementation at the Domestic Level.- Chapter 4. Does the Right to Education Lead to Better Primary Education Outcomes?.- Chapter 5. Paving the Way for Effective Socio-Economic Rights? The Domestic Enforcement of the European Social Charter System in Light of Recent Judicial Practice.- Chapter 6. How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments and Refugees in Turkey.- Part III. Human Rights at the Individual Level: Individual Experiences and Key Actors.- Chapter 7. Child Participation as the Holy Grail: Effective and Meaningful Participation in Judicial Proceedings? The Cases of the Immigration System and the Youth Care System in the Netherlands.- Chapter 8. Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From 'Hobby of the Few' to the Few Behind the Hobby.- Annex: Toogdag 2019 Report.