To what extent is the global human rights regime able to provide protection against abuses at the local level?

1. Introduction: reconsidering human rights from below Koen De Feyter and Stephan Parmentier; 2. Sites of rights resistance Koen De Feyter; 3. Freedom from want revisited from a local perspective: evolution and challenges ahead Felipe Gómez Isa; 4. Relevance of human rights in the 'glocal' space of politics: how to enlarge democratic practice beyond state boundaries and build up a peaceful world order? Antonio Papisca; 5. The local relevance of human rights: a methodological approach Gaby Oré Aguilar; 6. Ensuring compliance with decisions by international and regional human rights bodies: the case of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Michelle Farrell; 7. Building rights-based health movements: lessons from the Peruvian experience Alicia Ely Yamin and J. Jaime Miranda; 8. Defining human rights when economic interests are high: the case of the Western Shoshone Julie Cavanaugh-Bill; 9. Struggling to localise human rights: the experience of indigenous peoples in Chile José Aylwin; 10. Enforcing environmental rights under Nigeria's 1999 constitution: the localisation of human rights in the Niger Delta region Rhuks Temitope Ako; 11. Conflict resolution through cultural rights and cultural wrongs: the Kosovo example María del Mar Bermúdez, Manuel Calzada Plá and Lydia Vicente Márquez; 12. Epilogue: widening the perspective on the local relevance of human rights George Ulrich.