Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment

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Virtuous institutions, such as human rights ones, have been neglected by securitization theorys focus on the national state apparatus as the key driver of security politics. This book challenges this assumption, showing the ways institutional human rights, deemed the most progressive of rights, have been complicit in rendering the body vulnerable. While the book principally focuses on the treatment of the veiled woman, it also considers wider cases involving torture: the ultimate removal of control over ones body and biggest transgression of human rights supposed foundational commitment to bodily integrity.

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Aneira J. Edmunds is an authority on human rights. She tackles controversial and topical issues relating in particular to human rights control over the womans body and the limitations of virtuous institutions such as the ICC and the ECtHR.