Making Peoples Heard—Essays on Human Rights in Honour of Gudmundur Alfredsson

This collection of 36 papers was organized in honor of the human rights scholarship and human rights work at the United Nations of Icelandic professor Gudmundur Alfredsson, whose priority concern, according to the editors, "has been to make sure that smaller or marginalized people could have their own voice heard." The included papers reflect this concern, as well as other thematic aspects of Alfredsson's work. They are organized into sections on the right to peace, the United Nations and human rights, human rights at the regional level, indigenous peoples and minorities, and human rights in national practices. Also included are two appreciations of Alfredsson, one penned by Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)