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Author : Jane K. Cowan,Marie-B鈋n鈋dicte·Dembour,Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521797357
Part I: Setting universal rights
Author : Benjamin James Authers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 1442631872
In A Culture of Rights, Benjamin Authers reads novels by authors including Joy Kogawa, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, and Jeanette Armstrong alongside Canadian legal texts and constitutional rights cases.
Author : Lawrence Meir Friedman,Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610270731
Lawrence M. Friedman's newest book explores the sheer phenomenon of a near-global arc favoring the idea, and sometimes even the practice, of human rights. Not the usual legal or philosophical examination of rights, this book instead asks: Why is it--as a social and historical matter--that rights discourse is so prevalent and compelling to the current world?"Reams of books and articles have been written about human rights, but THE HUMAN RIGHTS CULTURE is unique. It is the first comprehensive, sociological study of human rights in the contemporary period. With his characteristic erudition and graceful style, Lawrence Friedman addresses all the central topics: women's rights, minority rights, privacy, social rights, cultural rights, the role of courts, whether human rights are universal, and much more. This surprisingly compact book presents a balanced discussion of each issue, filled with fascinating details and examples. Friedman's core argument is that the recent rise of human rights discourse around the globe is the product of modernity--in particular the spread of the cultural belief that people are unique individuals entitled to respect and the opportunity to flourish. This terrific book will be informative not only to human rights experts and practitioners but also to people who wish to read a clear and sophisticated introduction to the field." -- Brian Z. Tamanaha, Professor of Law, Washington UniversityQuality ebook formatting from Quid Pro Books features active Contents, linked footnotes, linked textual cross-references, and active URLs in references. Professor Friedman's latest book joins Quid Pro's Contemporary Society Series.
Author : Lynda Schaefer Bell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0231120818
Rights", Lucinda Joy Peach
Author : Francesco Francioni,Martin Scheinin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004162945
What is the relationship between culture and human rights? Can the idea of cultural rights, which are predicated on the distinctiveness and exclusivity of a communitya (TM)s beliefs and traditions, be compatible with the concept of human rights, which are universal and a ~inherenta (TM) to all human beings? If we accept such compatibility, what is the actual content of cultural rights? Who are their beneficiaries: individuals, or peoples or groups as collective entities? And what precise obligations do cultural rights pose upon states or other actors in international law, or for the international community as a whole? International instruments on the protection of human rights do not provide self-evident answers to these questions. This book seeks to analyse these dilemmas and to assess the impact that they are having on international law and the development of a coherent category of cultural human rights.
Author : Lieve Gies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317950585
Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the original ambition to establish a human rights culture. The human rights regime has been high on the political agenda ever since the Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted. Often maligned in sections of the press, the legislation has entered popular folklore as shorthand for an overbearing government, an overzealous judiciary and exploitative claimants. This book examines a range of significant factors in the mediation of human rights, including: Euroscepticism, the war on terror, the digital reordering of the media landscape, , press concerns about an emerging privacy law and civil liberties. Mediating Human Rights is a timely exploration of the relationship between law, politics and media. It will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Law, Media Studies, Human Rights, and Politics.
Author : Elsa Stamatopoulou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004157521
Drawing from a comprehensive review of legal instruments, practice, jurisprudence and literature, and using a multidisciplinary approach, this unique book brings forth the full spectrum of cultural rights, as individual and collective human rights, and offers a compelling vision for public policy.
Author : Dorothy L. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812204612
An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of rights. The essays address the gender-specific ways in which rights-based protocols have been analyzed, deployed, and legislated in the past and the present and the implications for women and men, adults and children in various social and geographical locations. Questions addressed include: What are the gendered assumptions and effects of the dominance of rights-based discourses for claims to social justice? What kinds of opportunities and limitations does such a "culture of rights" provide to seekers of justice, whether individuals or collectives, and how are these gendered? How and why do female bodies often become the site of contention in contexts pitting cultural against juridical perspectives? The contributors speak to central issues in current scholarly and policy debates about gender, culture, and human rights from comparative disciplinary, historical, and geographical perspectives. By taking "gender," rather than just "women," seriously as a category of analysis, the chapters suggest that the very sources of the power of human rights discourses, specifically "women's rights as human rights" discourses, to produce social change are also the sources of its limitations.
Author : Andrzej Jakubowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004312029
Cultural Rights as Collective Rights offers a comprehensive analysis of the conceptualisation and operationalisation of collective cultural rights in distinct areas of international law. It also provides a wide panorama of case-law from every region of the world.
Author : Andreas J. Wiesand,Kalliopi Chainoglou,Anna Sledzinska-Simon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110432251
The WROCLAW COMMENTARIES address legal questions as well as political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts and (old/new) media; questions of religious and language rights; the protection of minorities and other vulnerable groups; safeguarding cultural diversity and heritage; and further pertinent issues. Specialists from all over Europe and the world summarise and comment on core messages of legal instruments, the essence of case-law as well as prevailing and important dissenting opinions in the literature, with the aim of providing a user-friendly tool for the daily needs of decision or law-makers at different juridical, administrative and political levels as well as others working in the field of culture and human rights.
Author : Maksimus Regus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110696073
Drawing on human rights discourse and a study of the difficulties faced by religious minority groups (using the Ahmadiyya minority group as a case study), this book presents three interconnected challenges to human rights culture in Indonesia. First, it presents a normative challenge, describing the gap between philosophical and normative principles of human rights on one side and the overall problems and critical issues of human rights at national and local levels on the other. Second, it considers the political problems in developing and strengthening human rights culture. The political challenge addresses the ability (or inability) of the state to guarantee the rights of certain individuals and minority groups. Third, it examines the sociological challenge of majority-minority group relationships in human rights discourse and practices. This book describes the background of human rights in Indonesia and reviews the previous literature on the issue. It also presents a comprehensive review of the discourses about human rights and political changes in contemporary Indonesia. The analysis focuses on how human rights challenges affect the situation of religious minorities, looking in particular at the Ahmadiyya as a minority group that experiences human rights violations such as discrimination, persecution, and violence. The study fills out its treatment of these issues by examining the involvement of actors both from the state and society, addressing also the politics of human rights protection.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920
Author : Galit A Sarfaty
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804782227
“Cogently analyzes the culture of the [World] Bank to explain successes and failures in the adoption of human rights norms . . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice The World Bank is the largest lender to developing countries, making loans worth over $20 billion per year to finance development projects around the globe. To guide its investments, the Bank has adopted a number of social and environmental policies, yet it has never instituted any overarching policy on human rights. Despite the potential human rights impact of Bank projects—the forced displacement of indigenous peoples resulting from a Bank-financed dam project, for example—the issue of human rights remains marginal in the Bank’s operational practices. Values in Translation analyzes the organizational culture of the World Bank and addresses the question of why it has not adopted a human rights framework. Academics and social advocates have typically focused on legal restrictions in the Bank’s Articles of Agreement. This work’s anthropological analysis sheds light on internal obstacles—including the employee incentive system and a clash of expertise between lawyers and economists over how to define human rights and justify their relevance to the Bank’s mission.
Author : Mashood A. Baderin,Robert McCorquodale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015080817821
The protection of economic, social and cultural rights is vital for everyone, no matter where they live. This volume sets out some of the important legal issues about these rights, including who has obligations, when they apply and how they are relevant to contemporary concerns, such as trade and democracy.
Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040648142
Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.