From Right To Reality

Author : Helena Ribe,David Robalino,Ian Walker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821389065

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From Right to Reality by Helena Ribe,David Robalino,Ian Walker Pdf

This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. The book argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and safety net transfers.

Author : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400846283

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Making Human Rights a Reality by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton Pdf

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for international law to have much impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk. Emilie Hafner-Burton argues that more progress is possible if human rights promoters work strategically with the group of states that have dedicated resources to human rights protection. These human rights "stewards" can focus their resources on places where the tangible benefits to human rights are greatest. Success will require setting priorities as well as engaging local stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions. To date, promoters of international human rights law have relied too heavily on setting universal goals and procedures and not enough on assessing what actually works and setting priorities. Hafner-Burton illustrates how, with a different strategy, human rights stewards can make international law more effective and also safeguard human rights for more of the world population.

Author : Lisa Vanhala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139497121

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Making Rights a Reality? by Lisa Vanhala Pdf

Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves.

Author : Combat Poverty Agency
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781871643206

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Combat Poverty Agency Pre-Budget Submission 1992: Making Social Rights a Reality by Combat Poverty Agency Pdf

Author : David Sandomierski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781487505943

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Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education by David Sandomierski Pdf

Using extensive and novel new research, this book explores one of the long-standing challenges in legal education - the prospects for bringing legal theory into the training of future lawyers.

Author : John Aruna Massaquoi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781481743334

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Gay Marriage Rights Now a Global Reality by John Aruna Massaquoi Pdf

This book is a whistle blower to the world that the long uncompromising denial of gay marriage rights is now becoming a global reality. The struggle between gay activists and homophobia against samesex marriage had almost come to an end with religious groups and politicians losing the battle. This became possible as a result of gay aggressive activists of public pressure, for these minority group with different sexual identity that has awaken the world bodies, like the United Nations, the European parliament, and the United States of America. To date the international community has recognized that gay rights, are human rights, and human rights are gay rights, and has to be accepted globally. This signals the end of violence against [LGBT] people based on sexual orientation, and gender identity. Since the law is now on the side of gay for protection. The book reflects the efforts of gay rights activists and achievement they have made in recognition of gay marriage by the international bodies, starting with Europe, with the first gay marriage in Netherlands, followed by Belgium, Norway, Spain, and Portugal, etc, Samesex marriage in the united states is not federally recognized, but such marriages are becoming more and more recognized by many states.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000061502383

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Ideals Vs. Reality in Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight Pdf

Author : Watson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004637818

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Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights by Watson Pdf

Many theories and propositions have been advanced on the tacit assumption that international law encompasses the protection of human rights. Very few, if any, question the validity of this position. Here is a book that does. Theory and Reality in the International Protection of Human Rights presents a defense of the traditional theory of international law-based on a decentralized nation-state system of international relation—as being more appropriate for the analysis of its subject than more recent variants that allow for supranational redress at an increasingly personal level. In particular, Professor Watson shows how the proponents of the international human rights regime persistently use a legislative mode of reasoning, and how international law cannot sustain this technique. He holds that violation of the right to life is best adjudicated within a customary system, and concludes that the validity of the norms of international human rights has yet to be demonstrated. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Mary-Louise Kearney
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571812482

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Women, Power, and the Academy by Mary-Louise Kearney Pdf

Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain. Although as many women as men possess the skills necessary to shape social and economic development, women are still prevented from fully participating in decision-making processes. The papers collected in this volume focus on universities as one of the key institutions providing women with the education and leadership skills necessary for their advancement. Equally important is the role universities play in the shaping of a society's cultural fabric and, consequently, of attitudes towards women and their place in society. Both aspects are examined in this volume on the basis of a number of case studies carried out in western and non-western societies.

Author : Allan Beever
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800374157

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Law’s Reality by Allan Beever Pdf

Allan Beever lays the foundation for a timely philosophical and empirical study of the nature of law with a detailed examination of the structure of evolving law through declaratory speech acts. This engaging book demonstrates both how law itself is achieved and also its ability to generate rights, duties, obligations, permissions and powers.

Author : Claire Boost,Andrea Broderick,Fons Coomans,Roland Moerland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789462654471

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Myth or Lived Reality by Claire Boost,Andrea Broderick,Fons Coomans,Roland Moerland Pdf

Chapters How Human Rights Cross-Pollinate and Take Root: Local Governments & Refugees in Turkey by Elif Durmuş and Human Rights Localisation and Individual Agency: From ‘Hobby of the Few’ to the Few Behind the Hobby by Tihomir Sabchev, Sara Miellet, and Elif Durmuş are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com This book seeks to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, whether human rights are, in fact, a myth or a lived reality. Over the years much has been said about their effectiveness or, rather, their ineffectiveness. This perceived ineffectiveness relates not only to institutional challenges at the international level, but also to national implementation mechanisms and processes. In addition, questions have arisen as to whether individuals or groups of individuals actually benefit from the normative guarantees contained in human rights law and whether human rights as legal constructs can be effectively translated into better outcomes. This volume can be distinguished from the existing literature by virtue of the fact that it not only brings together scholars at different stages of their careers, but also that it incorporates contributions that adopt different methodological perspectives and cover a variety of topics. The book should prove of great benefit to human rights researchers, human rights practitioners, NGOs and students. Claire Boost is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University. Andrea Broderick is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University. Fons Coomans is a Professor at the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Peace, Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University. Roland Moerland is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University.

Author : Lawrence Busch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262016384

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Standards by Lawrence Busch Pdf

This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also explores how standards are intimately connected to power, empowering some but disempowering others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : American literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858055207413

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101076184033

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469638706

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Remaking Reality by Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman Pdf

After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous rethinking of established documentary practices and histories. Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era--the atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the financial collapse of 2008--documentary makers increasingly reconceived reality as the site of social conflict and saw their work as instrumental to struggles for justice. Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present. Essays by leading scholars across disciplines collectively explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking. In addition to the editors, the volume's contributors include Michael Mark Cohen, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh Raiford, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, and Daniel Worden.