Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions - Paperback

by Julie A. Mertus (Author)

Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.

Author Biography

Julie A. Mertus is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs at American University. Her seven books include, The United Nations and Human Rights (2005) and Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004), which was named Human Rights Book of the Year by the American Political Science Association Human Rights Section.