Ethical Human Rights

Author : A. Reis Monteiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319035666

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This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons. Its purpose, scope and rationale are reflected in the three-part structure of the manuscript. Part I has a broad introductory historical, theoretical and legal character. Part II submits that an Ethics of Human Rights is best understood as an Ethics of Recognition of human worth, dignity and rights. Moreover, it is argued that human worth consists in the perfectibility of the human species, rooted in its semiotic nature, to be accomplished through the perfecting of human beings, for which the right to education is key. In Part III, the main legal and political outcomes of the Human Rights Revolution are described and answers to the most lasting and common criticisms of human rights are provided. To conclude, the human stature of the Big Five drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is profiled and the priority that should be recognized to human rights education is highlighted. Some appendices supplement the manuscript. While making a case for the high value and liberating power of the idea and ideal of human rights, objections, controversies and uncertainties are not at all overlooked and emerging issues are explored. The diversity of content of this volume meets many needs of the typical syllabus for a human rights course.

Author : Daniel A. Bell,Jean-Marc Coicaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139459068

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Ethics in Action by Daniel A. Bell,Jean-Marc Coicaud Pdf

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

Author : Peter Neyroud,Alan Beckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135996222

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Policing, Ethics and Human Rights by Peter Neyroud,Alan Beckley Pdf

Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the assumptions about how policing is carried out. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and new human rights legislation. It sets out a powerful case for a modern 'ethical policing' approach. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights argues that securing and protecting human rights should be a major, if not the major, rationale for public policing.

Author : Carlos Santiago Nino
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015019857997

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4.2. The Liberal Retreat

Author : Clark Butler
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 1557534802

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Human Rights Ethics by Clark Butler Pdf

Human Rights Ethics makes an important contribution to contemporary philosophical and political debates concerning the advancement of global justice and human rights. Butler's book also lays claim to a significant place in both normative ethics and human rights studies in as much as it seeks to vindicate a universalistic, rational approach to human rights ethics. Butler's innovative approach is not based on murky claims to "natural rights" that supposedly hold wherever human beings exist; nor does it succumb to the traditional problems of justification associated with utilitarianism, Kantianism, and other procedural approaches to human rights studies. Instead, Butler proposes "a dialectical justification of human rights by indirect proof" that claims not to be question begging. Very much in the spirit of Hegel and Habermas, Butler proposes to vindicate a "totally rational account of human rights," but one that depends concretely and historically on a dialectically constructed "right to freedom of thought in its universal modes."

Author : Jan Hancock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351758390

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Environmental Human Rights by Jan Hancock Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.

Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783742219

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century by Gordon Brown Pdf

The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community? Since 1948, the Declaration has stood as a beacon and a standard for a better world. Yet the work of making its ideals real is far from over. Hideous and systemic human rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate around the world. Too many people, particularly those in power, are hostile to human rights or indifferent to their claims. Meanwhile, our global interdependence deepens. Bringing together world leaders and thinkers in the fields of politics, ethics, and philosophy, the Commission set out to develop a common understanding of the meaning of global citizenship – one that arises from basic human rights and empowers every individual in the world. This landmark report affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to renew the 1948 enterprise, and the very ideal of the human family, for our day and generation.

Author : Florian Wettstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009158381

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Business and Human Rights by Florian Wettstein Pdf

The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in business and human rights coherently incorporates ethical, legal and managerial perspectives. This path-breaking textbook will be a valuable introductory resource for students, instructors and researchers in business, public policy and law schools.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9789231042027

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Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Audrey Osler
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807756768

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Human Rights and Schooling by Audrey Osler Pdf

The author examines the theory, research, and practice linking human rights to education in order to broaden the concept of citizenship and social studies education. Osler anchors her examination of human rights in the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training.

Author : American Nurses Association
Publisher : Nursesbooks.org
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781558101760

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Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements by American Nurses Association Pdf

Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.

Author : Deborah Zion,Linda Briskman,Alireza Bagheri
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781786348586

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Indigenous Health Ethics: An Appeal To Human Rights by Deborah Zion,Linda Briskman,Alireza Bagheri Pdf

This book examines the intersections of bioethics, human rights and health equity. It does so through the contextual lenses of nation states while presenting global themes on rights, colonialism and bioethics. The book is framed by the following propositions on indigenous health: it is a human rights issue; it is located within the politics of colonization; and subjugated indigenous knowledges require restoring.

Author : Cinzia Caporale,Ilja Richard Pavone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317114390

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International Biolaw and Shared Ethical Principles by Cinzia Caporale,Ilja Richard Pavone Pdf

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, 2005, marked a significant step towards the recognition of universal standards in the field of science and medicine. This book provides an overview of the ethical and legal developments which have occurred in the field of bioethics and human rights since then. The work critically analyzes the Declaration from an ethical and legal perspective, commenting on its implementation, and discussing the role of non-binding norms in international bioethics. The authors examine whether the Declaration has contributed to the understanding of universal or global bioethics, and to what degree states have implemented the principles in their domestic legislation. The volume explores the currency of the Declaration vis-à-vis the more recent developments in technology and medicine and looks ahead to envisage the major bioethical challenges of the next twenty years. In this context, the book offers a comprehensive ethical and legal study of the Declaration with an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the provisions, in order to clarify the extension of human rights in the field of medicine and the obligations incumbent upon UNESCO member States, with reference to their implementation practice.

Author : Shashi Motilal
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789380601151

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Applied Ethics and Human Rights by Shashi Motilal Pdf

This collection of papers offers a philosophical perspective - including the all-important and significant perspective from the point of view of 'dharma' - to a host of intricate ethical problems in personal, professional and social life, by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities which are central to those problems.

Author : Wanda Teays,Alison Dundes Renteln
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1538123754

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Global Bioethics and Human Rights by Wanda Teays,Alison Dundes Renteln Pdf

The ethical issues we face in healthcare, justice, and human rights extend beyond national boundaries--they are global and cross-cultural in scope. The second edition of this interdisciplinary and international collection features new essays on gender identity, vaccines, stem cells, bioterror, and other pressing contemporary concerns.