Just published: European Yearbook on Human Rights 2014

I'm thrilled to announce that the sixth edition of the European Yearbook on Human Rights 2014, which I have co-edited, has just been published. 

You can order it here

It's been an exciting year for huaman rights. If 2012 was the year of furthering coherence in human rights protection, 2013 was the year of discussing new standards and their implementation in light of growing challenges to international and societal solidarity. This
survey of human rights in Europe and beyond identifies an increased tension in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights. Vulnerable groups – from migrants to children, from victims of human trafficking to victims of gender-based violence – have also moved squarely into the center of both the discourse and practice of human rights protection. This volume contextualizes these trends.

Defining and discussing key developments in human rights, the sixth edition of the European Yearbook on Human Rights brings together more than 30 contributions by renowned human rights experts that provide a much needed overview and sought-after analysis. 

Edited jointly by representatives of four major European human rights research, teaching and training institutions, the Yearbook 2014 covers extensively political and legal developments in the field of the three main organizations charged with securing human rights in Europe: EU, Council of Europe and OSCE. A further chapter contains contributions on the role of civil society in human rights protection and on cross-cutting topics.

The impressive array of authors – academics and diplomats, practioners and human rights experts – makes the book essential reading for anyone interested in human rights in Europe and beyond.

And here's the table of contents.

I Topics of the Year

Zdzislaw (Dzidek) KEDZIA
Reinforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Anita DANKA and Oliver PAHNECKE
Digital Human Rights Defence: The Challenges and
Opportunities of Using Social Media for Human Rights
Documentation and Monitoring

Lisa Maria HESCHL
Lampedusa: The Lack of Solidarity and the Human Rights Crisis at the EU’s External Borders

II European Union

Wolfgang BENEDEK
EU Action on Human and Fundamental Rights in 2013

Theodor RATHGEBER
A Human Rights Champion? The EU at the UN Human Rights
Council in 2013

Jarmo OIKARINEN
Reform of the EU Human Rights Policy and the Challenge of Implementation

Jean Paul JACQUÉ

La Cour de Justice de l’Union et l’application de la Charte dans les Etats membres : « Mehr Licht ? »

Martina ALMHOFER and Johannes HARTLIEB
Article 53 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU: Recent Developments

Ulrike LUNACEK
Furthering the Human Rights of LGBTI People: A View from
within the European Parliament

Eva Maria LASSEN
EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief

Dimitri VANOVERBEKE and Michael REITERER
ASEAN’s Regional Approach to Human Rights: The Limits of the European Model?

Alba BESCOS POU
Data Protection vs. Security in the European Union

Nora SCHEUCHER
In the Best Interests of the Child? Towards a Common EU
Approach to Migrant Minors in Detention

Abraham Pieter VINGERLING
The European Union and a Prohibition on Goods Produced by Child Labour and Forced Labour

Davide ZARU
EU External Assistance and the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes

David D’HOLLANDER, Axel MARX and Jan WOUTERS
Integrating Human Rights in EU Development Cooperation
Policy: Achievements and Challenges

Henning Bang Fuglsang Madsen SØRENSEN
International and European Approaches to Extraterritorial Liability for Violation of Fundamental Rights in International Criminal Law

III Council of Europe

Brigitte OHMS and Elisabeth HANDL-PETZ
The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in 2013: A Year of Breakthroughs

Gregor HEISSL
The EU’s Accession to the ECHR: Recent Developments and
Remarks on the Relationship between the ECJ and the ECtHR

Jan MALINOWSKI
Monitoring Freedom of Expression in Council of Europe Member States: Only Desirable or also Unavoidable?

Agnieszka SZKLANNA
The Council of Europe’s Position vis-à-vis the Proposal to Establish a “Rule of Law Mechanism” in the European Union

Petra SMUTNY and Christian MANQUET
CAHVIO – New Standards for the Protection Against Gender- Based and Domestic Violence

Sara DE VIDO
States’ Due Diligence Obligations to Protect Women from
Violence: A European Perspective in Light of the 2011 CoE Istanbul Convention

Martina KLEIN
Not for Sale: Towards a Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs

IV OSCE

Christian STROHAL
Closing the Implementation Gap: The OSCE and Added Value
from Stronger Synergies Between Human Rights Organizations

Maria ALCIDI
Trial Monitoring: OSCE Methodologies

Irina URUMOVA
When “Economic” Means Much More: Researching the Nexus
Between the Economic Recession and the Implementation of
Civil and Political Rights

Snježana BOKULIĆ 

The OSCE and Human Rights Defenders: A Longstanding and
Contentious Relationship

V Cross-cutting Issues

Jonathan BERNAERTS
A Medical and Legal Analysis of Circumcision of Male Children

Melanie Fiona OLIVER
Can Women Trafficked for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation Claim Asylum? Defining the Refugee Convention’s ‘Particular Social Group’

Clara RIGONI
Humanizing Criminal Justice? Restorative Approaches under Fair Trial Scrutiny

Óscar A. LEMA BOUZA
Kin or Foe? Hungary’s Policy Towards Its Kin Minorities

Gábor HALMAI
An Illiberal Constitutional System in the Middle of Europe