Human Security and Human Rights under International Law

Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is Doctor of Laws from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Estrada-Tanck’s deeper consideration of synergies between international human rights law (IHRL) and human security is a welcome addition to a body of work in desperate need of expansion.

• Introduction I. Literature Review and the Current Debate II. The Argument III. Chapter Synopses Part I: Conceptual Outlines1. Human Security: An Overview I. Historical Evolution of Human Security II. The 2012 ‘Common Understanding’ of Human Security and Beyond III. International, Regional and National Uses of Human Security IV. A Holistic Human Security: All Human Rights and a Threshold Definition 2. Human Security, International Law and Human Rights I. International Law, Risk and Structural Vulnerability II. Human Security and Human Rights 3. The Human Security–Human Rights Synergy I. Article 28 of the UDHR and Human Security: An Enabling Environment II. Human Security and ‘Core Content’ of Human Rights III. The Framework in a Nutshell Part II: Practical Applications of the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy in Legal Analysis4. Violence against Women, Human Security and Women’s Human Rights I. Introduction II. Human Security and its Gender Implications III. VAW under Human Rights Law: Demarcating the Scope of Human Security IV. Human Security and VAW: Synergies Reinforcing Women’s Human Rights V. Some Conclusions: Gendered Human Security and the Right to Live Free from Violence 5. Human Security and Rights of Undocumented Migrants and Other Non-Citizens I. Introduction II. Undocumented Migrants, Other Non-Citizens, and Human Security III. International Human Rights Law on Migrants and Non-Citizens IV. A Human Security Lens to Migrant Human Rights: Legal Irregularity as a Source of RiskV. Some Conclusions: Migratory Regimes as the Ultimate Test to Human Securityand Human Rights 6. Undocumented Female Migrants and Illustrative Migrant Cases I. Introduction II. Undocumented Female Migrants: Workers and Women at Risk III. Illustrative Legal Cases of a Human Security Approach to Migrants’ Human Rights IV. Some Conclusions on Undocumented Migrants and Women: Human Security as the ‘Right to Have Access to Rights’ 7. Conclusions on the Human Security–Human Rights Synergy and Prospective Routes I. Some Conceptual Conclusions II. Legal Interaction: Interpretative Synergies Between Human Security and Human Rights III. Prospective Routes