Overview
- Introduces readers to the underlying reasons why a country from the Global South, Sri Lanka, engages with the international human rights machinery and furnishes explanations for post-colonial states’ behaviour
- Provides an explanation for the limited impact of this international human rights engagement on the Sri Lankan human rights infrastructure, despite intensive engagement and interaction
- Highlights what needs to be changed within the United Nations and Sri Lanka so as to open the door for a more fruitful human rights discourse
Part of the book series: International Law and the Global South (ILGS)
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Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments. However, despite its active membership in the UN, the country’s post-colonial trials and tribulations are emblematic of the limited influence the international organisation has exerted on this country in the Global South.
Assessing the impact of this international engagement on the country’s human rights infrastructure and situation, the book outlines Sri Lanka’s colonial and post-colonial development. It then considers the development of a domestic human rights infrastructure in the country. It also examines and analyzes Sri Lanka’s engagement with the UN’s treaty-based and charter-based human rights bodies, before offering conclusions concerning the impact of saidengagement.
The book offers an innovative approach to gauging the impact of international human rights engagement, while also taking into account the colonial and post-colonial imperatives that have partly dictated governmental behaviour. By doing so, the book seeks to combine and analyse international human rights law, post-colonial critique, studies on biopower, and critical approaches to international law. It will be a useful resource not only for scholars of international law, but also for practitioners and activists working in this area.
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Book Title: Sri Lanka, Human Rights and the United Nations
Book Subtitle: A Scrutiny into the International Human Rights Engagement with a Third World State
Authors: Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
Series Title: International Law and the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7350-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7349-7Published: 15 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7350-3Published: 30 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2510-1420
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public International Law , Human Rights and Crime , Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights