Publications
Publications
The Center publishes a report series on human rights as well as books. The Center also participates in the publication of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights and Human Rights in Development.
Publications underway are on, inter alia, the judicial status of elderly citizens, transgender rights, national human rights institutions in the Nordic countries, prohibition of discrimination and human rights in foreign policy.
You can order books or publications by sending an e-mail including your name, address and phone number to icehr@humanrights.is. Send your payment to the account 101-26-06563. The Center´s kennitala is 620794-2019. When the Center has received a receipt the book or publication will be sent to the recipient at his own cost.
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The Human Rights Center´s publications
You can order the eight following publications, which cost 950 kr.- each:
1. Mannréttindi í stjórnarskrá (Human Rights in the Icelandic Constitution): four presentations from a meeting held by the Icelandic Human Rights Center, the Icelandic Bar Association and the Icelandic Lawyers Association on December 1 1994.
2. Mannréttindastarf Sameinuðu þjóðanna by Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson og Jakob Th. Möller (specially printed from Úlfljótur).
3. Universal Justice Through International Criminal Law. A report from the International Criminal Law Symposium in Rome, April 1996. By Jónatan Þórmundsson, professor at the University of Iceland‘s law department and Robert A. Spano, former lawyer for the Althing‘s Ombudsman.
4. Our Dreams Will never Die: The Struggle for Self-Determination of East Timor. By Jose Ramos Horta.
5. Mannréttindadómstóll Evrópu: Stefnumótandi áhrif á landsrétt (The European Court of Human Rights: Influence on National Courts). Theme: judgements in cases where individuals have undergone a sex change. By the human rights group of ELSA in Iceland with a grant from the Icelandic Human Rights Center.
6. Peoples‘ Europe: Aspects of Democracy in the European Union. By Lilja Sturludóttir, human rights lawyer (law and LLM in human rights). Based on her master‘s thesis from the Raoul Wallenberg institution in Lund 1998.
7. Pater Est – aðild þriðja manns að véfengingarmáli. Research done be the human rights group of ELSA in Iceland with a grant from the Icelandic Human Rights Center.
8. National Human Rights Institutions. Report by Guðrún Dögg Guðmundsdóttir, Erna Sif Jónsdóttir, Linda B. Guðrúnardóttir and Sandra Lyngdorf with support from the Icelandic Human Right´s research fund and the Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs. The report costs 1500 kr.
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Réttarstaða fatlaðra (the Legal Status of the Disabled in Iceland), by Brynhildur G. Flóvenz, Reykjavík 2005.
4500 kr.
6500 kr. in hardcopy.
Published by the Icelandic Human Rights Center, Dr. Jóhann Guðmundsson‘s Memorial Fund and the Educational Fund. Publisher: the University of Iceland.
This publication deals with the legal status of the disabled in Iceland and outlines the Icelandic law regarding this issue. The formal legal status, as it is portrayed by the law and international agreements, is compared to the real legal status as it is carried out in reality. First, there is a general discussion on the legal status of the disabled and then the special rights are outlined in each chapter, for example the right to education and the right to personal freedom.
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The Icelandic Human Rights Center is a participant to The Human Rights Education Project (HREP) which is a collaborative venture with the University for Peace (UPEACE) and Holland‘s government. The venture consists of three books and a multimedia CD. The first part is the Human Rights Reference Handbook, an overview of human rights terminology, judgements and the international systems which promote the protection of human rights. The second part is Human Rights Instruments, a summary of agreements, international declarations and various documents regarding human rights. The third part is the Universal and Regional Human Rights Protection; Cases and Commentaries, which contains extracts of judgements and a discussion on decisions of the United Nations‘ Human Rights Committee, the European Human Rights Court, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Commission on Human and People‘s Rights. The multimedia CD, Human Rights Ideas, Concepts and Fora, contains these three books as well as conventions, judgements and supporting material.
A few copies of this package are still available.
In March 2009 the eighth edition of Human Rights Instruments was published and in April 2009 the fourth edition of the Human Rights Reference Handbook was published.
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Human Rights in Development Yearbook, Nordic Human Rights Publications, Oslo, from the year 1994.
5000 kr.
The Icelandic Human Rights Center is also a participant to the publication of the Human Rights Development Yearbook, which addresses the policy of human rights issues in third world countries. In addition to the Icelandic Human Rights Center, the Christian Michelsen Institution in Bergen, the Danish Human Rights Center, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institution in Vienna, the Dutch Human Rights Center in Utrecth, the Norwegian Human Rights Center in Oslo and the Raoul Wallenber Institution in Lund are participants to the publication.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - A Common Standard of Achievement by Guðmundur Alfreðsson and Asbjørn Eide (eds.), Haag, 1999.
6000 kr.
On the anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights the nordic human rights centers published together the book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – A Common Standard of Achievement, which contains a discussion on each article of the declaration. Guðmundur Alfreðsson and Asbjörn Eide edited the book in addition to being authors. Other Icelandic authors included: Ágúst Þór Árnason, Gunnar G. Schram, Jakob Th. Möller, Páll Þórhallsson and Ragnar Aðalsteinsson.
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, Second Revised Edition. Edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause, and Allan Rosas. Kluwer Law International, Hag, 2001.
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Nordic Journal of Human Rights
The Icelandic Human Rights Center is a participant in the publication of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (before called Mennesker og rettigheter) which is the only specialized publication on human rights in the nordic countries. You can subscribe to the publication or buy it from Universitetsforlaget in Oslo.
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Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.
Published by the Icelandic Human Rights, the Icelandic Red Cross and the UN Refugee Agency. In the handbook the term “refugee” is defined as well as the legal status of refugees. The handbook is a fundamental text on how to interpret the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and is intended to guide authorities and experts on procedures and criteria for determining refugee status. Hopefully the handbook will raise interest and will benefit everyone who is concerned for refugees, for example officials, theorists, lawyers and others who deal with refugees’ and asylum seekers’ issues.
2000 kr.
1500 kr. for students.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Therefore, December 10, 2008 was the declaration‘s 60 year anniversary and on that occasion it was published in a new Icelandic translation. In addition the Icelandic Human Rights Center, in cooperation with the ministry for foreign affairs, published a book where fifteen young artists brought each article of the declaration to life. There you can see the unique style of each artist as well as a simple version of the text of the declaration.
