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Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1910812374
Author : V. R. Krishna Iyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015024949235
Author : Simon Baughen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780857934765
The effects of globalisation, together with the increase in foreign investment and resource development within the developing world, have created a context for human rights abuses by States in which transnational corporations are complicit. This timely book considers how these ‘governance gaps’, as identified by Professor John Ruggie, may be closed. Simon Baughen examines the status of corporations under international law, the civil liability of corporations for their participation in international crimes and self-regulation through voluntary codes of conduct, such as the 2011 UN Guiding Principles.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780786737734
This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed . . . with certain inalienable rights"-where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than the product of human law, what argument is there for allowing the "rights" of a few people to outweigh the preferences of the majority? In this book, renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz offers a fresh resolution to this age-old dilemma: Rights, he argues, do not come from God, nature, logic, or law alone. They arise out of particular experiences with injustice. While justice is an elusive concept, hard to define and subject to conflicting interpretations, injustice is immediate, intuitive, widely agreed upon and very tangible. This is a timely book that will have an immediate impact on our political dialogue, from the intersection of religion and law to recent quandaries surrounding the right to privacy, voting rights, and the right to marry. More than that, it is a passionate case for the recognition of human rights in a rigorously secular framework. Rights from Wrongs will be the first book to propose a theory of rights that emerges not from some theory of perfect justice but from its opposite: from the bottom up, from trial and error, and from our collective experience of injustice.
Author : Timothy Dunne,Nicholas J. Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521641381
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing rights in the context of particular ethical communities. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture.
Author : Shannon Morreira
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804799096
The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm between the ideals and the practice of human rights. Specifically, it shows where the sweeping colonial logics of Western law meets the lived experiences, accumulated histories, and humanitarian debts present in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Through a comprehensive survey of human rights scholarship, Shannon Morreira explores the ways in which the global framework of human rights is locally interpreted, constituted, and contested in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Musina and Cape Town, South Africa. Presenting the stories of those who lived through the violent struggles of the past decades, Morreira shows how supposedly universal ideals become localized in the context of post-colonial Southern Africa. Rights After Wrongs uncovers the disconnect between the ways human rights appear on paper and the ways in which it is possible for people to use and understand them in everyday life.
Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809098
This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and children, examining the formal properties of victim texts for their documentation of trauma, and analyzing the role of the sympathetic imagination, Writing Wrongs inaugurates a whole new field in literary–cultural studies by focusing on the narratives that build the culture of Human Rights. It argues for taking this cultural apparatus as essential to the political and legal dimensions of Human Rights. The book emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary–cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies, arguing that a public culture of Human Rights has a key role to play in revitalizing civil society and its institutions. It will be of interest to Human Rights scholars and activists, and those in political science, sociology, literary and cultural studies, narrative theory and psychology.
Author : Nigel Biggar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198861973
What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance civic virtue, military effectiveness and the democratic law legitimacy. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments. It spans discussions from medieval Christendom to contemporary debates about justified killing.
Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487516727
The Canadian Charter of Rights is composed of words that describe the foundations of a just society: equality, freedom, and democracy. These words of justice have inspired struggles for civil rights, self-determination, trade unionism, the right to vote, and social welfare. Why is it, then, that fifteen years after the entrenchment of the Charter, social injustice remains pervasive in Canada? Joel Bakan explains why the Charter has failed to promote social justice, and why it may even impede it. He argues that the Charter's fine-sounding words of justice are 'just words.' Freedom, equality and democracy are fundamental principles of social justice. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms entrenches them in Canada's highest law, the constitution. Yet the Charter has failed to promote social justice in Canada. In Just Words, Joel Bakan explains why. Sophisticated in its analyses but clearly written and accessible, Just Words is cutting-edge commentary by one of Canada's rising intellectuals.
Author : Nicholas J. Owen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192802194
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Author : Jamal Greene
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781328518118
An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.
Author : Elisha P. Hurlbut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020291096
Author : David A. Hoekema
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0941664074
Brings the themes of much contemporary work in political philosophy to bear on concrete questions of social policy. The author concludes by arguing that his theory of rights and coercion requires us to adopt a fundamentally retributive theory of punishment.
Author : Rosanna L. Langer
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774841092
Human rights complaints attract a great deal of public interest, but what is going on below the surface? When people contact a human rights lawyer, how do they think about and use human rights discourse? How are complaints turned into cases? Can administrative systems be both effective and fair? Defining Rights and Wrongs investigates the day-to-day practices of low-level officials and intermediaries as they construct domestic human rights complaints. It identifies the values that a human rights system should uphold if it is to promote mutual respect and foster the personal dignity and equal rights of citizens.
Author : Dean Spade
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374794
Revised and Expanded Edition Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective? In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence. In the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
