Challenges In Human Rights

Author : MennoT. Kamminga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351572491

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Challenges in International Human Rights Law by MennoT. Kamminga Pdf

The main challenges within international human rights law are generally thought to be in the fields of transitional justice, non-state actors, terrorism, development, poverty and environmental degradation. This volume of articles not only covers these mainstream challenges but also a wider and more systematic range, including justiciability of social and economic rights, extraterritoriality, health care and investment arbitration. The key literature selected for this collection includes articles that have appeared in mainstream journals and books from leading publishers as well as papers that have appeared in lesser known journals, hard to find books and UN documents. Some of these are classic essays whilst others are more recent additions that reflect the current state of the debate. The papers are put into context by a specially commissioned introduction by the volume editor. This volume is an invaluable resource for human rights lawyers in search of the key literature in fields outside their own specialization as well as for students, researchers and lecturers seeking an overview of the challenges in human rights law.

Author : Carla Ferstman,Tony Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351107112

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Contemporary Human Rights Challenges by Carla Ferstman,Tony Gray Pdf

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the aftermath of the World War II in an attempt to address the wrongs of the past and plan for a better future for all. With contributions from President Jimmy Carter, UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azoulay and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, this collection of essays, Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance, by leading international experts offers a timely contemporary view on the UDHR and its continuing relevance to today’s issues. Reflecting the structure of the UDHR, the chapters, written by 28 academics, practitioners and activists, bring a contemporary perspective to the original principles proclaimed in the Declaration’s 30 Articles. It will be a stimulating accessible read, with real world examples, for anyone involved in thinking about, designing or applying public policy, particularly government officials, politicians, lawyers, journalists and academics and those engaged in promoting social justice. Examined through these universal principles, which have enduring relevance, the authors grapple with some of today’s most pressing challenges, some of which, for example equality and gender related rights, would not have been foreseen by the original drafters of the Declaration, who included Eleanor Roosevelt, René Cassin and John Humphrey. The essays cover a wide range of topics such as an individual’s right to privacy in a digital age, freedom to practise one’s religion and the right to redress, and make a compelling and detailed argument for the on-going importance and significance of the Declaration and human rights in our rapidly changing world.

Author : Richard Lang,Jack Clayton Thompson,Claire-Michelle Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527549937

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Contemporary Challenges to Human Rights Law by Richard Lang,Jack Clayton Thompson,Claire-Michelle Smyth Pdf

This collection of essays highlights the many problems and challenges facing human rights law today. Bringing together academics, practitioners and NGOs, it examines some of the contemporary challenges facing human rights law and practice in England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, France and America. It is clear that we live in a time where human rights are in crisis. A decade of austerity measures at the domestic, regional and international levels evidently has had a detrimental effect on the protection of human rights. Cuts to social spending have resulted a failing social welfare system, a health service buckling under pressure, unprecedented rises in homelessness and child poverty, and the emergence of the ‘working poor’ and zero hours contracts. Austerity, famine, civil war, oppressive governmental regimes and climate change have seen vast migrations, resulting in a resurrection of far right-wing ideology. In the UK, this is seen in what can only be described as propaganda and scaremongering during the campaign for Brexit and in subsequent political elections evidenced by the increase in racially motivated hate crime within the UK. The landscape of human rights is such that it has resulted in some beginning to question, are human rights rights at all?

Author : Fernando Falcón y Tella
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004160224

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Challenges for Human Rights by Fernando Falcón y Tella Pdf

Nowadays we are fortunate enough to be experiencing a boom in human rights - an enormous increase of their importance in the international sphere at all levels (political, economic, social, legal and moral). For the first time the condition of the individual as "citizen," and not just as "subject," has gained importance. Individuals, and not only states, have now become the subjects of international law, as a result of the boom in humanitarian law and international criminal law. However, although there have been many battles won and goals met concerning human rights, the war against injustice continues and the fight has not ended. It is necessary to stay alert and to avoid a potentially paralyzing self-complacency. This collection focusses on topics that are particularly relevant for the present era. It examines issues such as multiculturalism, globalization, international criminal justice (specifically third and fourth generation rights) and, within this thematic framework, the problems that have come about as a result of the expanding reach of the Internet and of new biomedical advances. In addition, it explores the increasingly urgent challenge of how to respond to international terrorism, in view of worldwide events since September 11, 2001, and its resulting aftermath. Originally published in Spanish, this thought-provoking collection will be of interest to human rights scholars and practitioners alike.

Author : Janusz Symonides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429676666

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Human Rights by Janusz Symonides Pdf

First published in 1998, this first volume of The Manual on Human Rights Education for Universities has been prepared in the hope that it will serve as a teaching aid for institutions of higher education, as well as for UNESCO Chairs, and focuses on new dimensions and challenges. UNESCO’s long experience in this field goes back to 1951, when the first guide for teachers on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was published. This formed part of UNESCO’s efforts to create a comprehensive system of human rights education, embracing formal and non-formal education. Issues explored include peace, the environment, education, discrimination and extreme poverty.

Author : Dapo Akande,Dominic Roser,Helen McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198824770

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Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges by Dapo Akande,Dominic Roser,Helen McDermott Pdf

The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century - armed conflict, environment, and poverty - and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues. This multidisciplinary text considers both foundational and applied questions such as the relationship between morality and the laws of war, as well as the application of the International Human Rights Framework in cyber space. Alongside analyses from some of the most prominent lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists in the debate, each section includes contributions by those who have served as Special Rapporteurs within the United Nations Human Rights System on the challenges facing international human rights laws today.

Author : Elisabeth Reichert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cultural relativism
ISBN : 9780231137218

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Challenges in Human Rights by Elisabeth Reichert Pdf

By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking outside the box. Bringing together provocative essays from a diverse range of authors, Elisabeth Reichert demonstrates how approaching social work from a human rights perspective can profoundly affect legislation, resource management, and enforcement of policies. Topics include the reconciliation of cultural relativism with universal human rights; the debate over whether human rights truly promote economic and social development or simply allow economically developed societies to exploit underdeveloped countries; the role of gender in the practice of human rights; the tendency to promote political and civil rights over economic and social rights; and the surprising connection between the social work and legal professions.

Author : Mark Ensalaco,Linda C. Majka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742529886

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Children's Human Rights by Mark Ensalaco,Linda C. Majka Pdf

Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world. Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick, and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent. In the United States, children suffer similar abuses, but some are unique to the United States justice system. Unlike most of the rest of the world, the U.S. is a well-developed western nation in which juvenile offenders can be tried as adults and subjected to capital punishment. This book brings together a wide array of original essays from a variety of academic and practitioner perspectives on human rights and the status of children. The details are disturbing the message, powerful We must vigorously extend the universal declaration of human rights to the most vulnerable humans of all--the children of the world, starting at home in the United States.

Author : Gerald L. Neuman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108485494

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Human Rights in a Time of Populism by Gerald L. Neuman Pdf

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UOM:39015042758246

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Human Rights by Unesco Pdf

Poverty as a Crime

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ICHRP
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9782940259243

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Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights Reporting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sue Farran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135392307

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Human Rights in the South Pacific by Sue Farran Pdf

This book looks at the challenges and contemporary issues raised by human rights in the island countries of the South West Pacific which have come under the influence of the common law – where the legal systems are complex and perceptions of rights varies widely. Drawing on a wide range of resources to present a contemporary and evolving picture of human rights in the island states of the South Pacific region, the book considers the human rights aspects of constitutions, legal institutions and structures, social organisation, culture and custom, tradition and change. The materials provide legal, historical, political, social and cultural insights into the lived experience of human rights in the region supported by illustrative material from case-law, media reports, and policy documents. The book also locates the human rights concerns of Pacific islanders firmly within the wider theoretical and international domain while at the same time maintaining focus on the importance of the unique identity of Pacific island nations and people. Human Rights in the South Pacific will appeal to anyone interested in the region or in human rights including international rights advocates, investors and developers, policy-makers, representatives of government and civic society and those wishing to acquire a better understanding of what countries emerging from colonial rule face in developing but still retaining their identity.

Author : Jesús Ballesteros,Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez,Pedro Talavera
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400740204

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Globalization and Human Rights by Jesús Ballesteros,Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez,Pedro Talavera Pdf

Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a new perspective. The first part describes the soft threats to human rights, derived from the devaluation of the politics and the productive economy with regard to the finance. It entails the concealment of the reality in the shape of exploitation as the tax havens and in the shape of marginalization of the persons with different abilities. The second part include a study of hard threats to human rights and examines two cases of failed states: Afghanistan and Somalia, in which the violence has supplanted the politics and the economy. In view of these situations it is necessary to rethink the force of classic ius gentium and the humanitarian right. The third part presents the European Union as a legal and political space in which conditions of a worthy life are better defended by means of the Primacy of Practical Reason and Social State of Law, and by the requirement of peace as the main rule of international relations.

Author : César Landa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527521032

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Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America by César Landa Pdf

Latin America offers a democratic and constitutional process, with the goals to respect fundamental human rights and control the excess of power. Nevertheless, the weaknesses of the rule of law’s institutions does not guarantee for all citizens the protection of old and new rights. In this sense, the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference organized by the Inter-American Network on Fundamental Rights and Democracy (RED–IDD) is an annual meeting of professors and researchers from the different universities of Latin America, addressing topics of particular importance regarding the possibilities and challenges of the consolidation of the constitutional state in the region. This book presents the minutes of the Fourth Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, and explores topics such as political rights and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America; impeachment and judicial guarantees; the challenges of freedom of information: and judicial protection and due process, amongst others.

Author : Angelica Bonfanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429811258

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Business and Human Rights in Europe by Angelica Bonfanti Pdf

Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negatively impact the enjoyment of human rights. In some cases, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have even been accused of grave human rights abuses in the territory of the states where their subsidiaries operate. Since the parent companies of many MNEs are incorporated under the law of European states, those countries’ domestic law and the European legal framework play a crucial role in establishing how their activities should be conducted – also throughout their supply chains – and which remedies will be available when corporate human rights violations occur. In recent years, the European Union, the Council of Europe and their Member States have been adopting policies and legislation to ensure respect for human rights by businesses and have developed a body of related case law. These legal instruments can be considered the European responses to the challenges posed at international-law level, and they constitute the focus of research of this book. Through its collected chapters – written by scholars and practitioners under the direction of the editor, Angelica Bonfanti – the book identifies the European solutions to the business and human rights international legal issues, provides an overall assessment of their effectiveness, and examines their potential evolution.