Human Rights And The Third World

Author : Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139438230

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International Law from Below by Balakrishnan Rajagopal Pdf

The emergence of transnational social movements as major actors in international politics - as witnessed in Seattle in 1999 and elsewhere - has sent shockwaves through the international system. Many questions have arisen about the legitimacy, coherence and efficiency of the international order in the light of the challenges posed by social movements. This book offers a fundamental critique of twentieth-century international law from the perspective of Third World social movements. It examines in detail the growth of two key components of modern international law - international institutions and human rights - in the context of changing historical patterns of Third World resistance. Using a historical and interdisciplinary approach, Rajagopal presents compelling evidence challenging debates on the evolution of norms and institutions, the meaning and nature of the Third World as well as the political economy of its involvement in the international system.

Author : José-Manuel Barreto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443866453

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Human Rights from a Third World Perspective by José-Manuel Barreto Pdf

Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of modern colonialism and the struggle for global justice. An exercise of dialogical and interdisciplinary thinking, this collection of articles by leading scholars puts into conversation important areas of research on human rights, namely philosophy or theory of human rights, history, and constitutional and international law. This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses of human rights.

Author : Veeravagu Thambirajah Thamilmaran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UOM:39015029108761

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Human Rights in Third World Perspective by Veeravagu Thambirajah Thamilmaran Pdf

Author : Subrata Sankar Bagchi,Arnab Das
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739177365

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Human Rights and the Third World by Subrata Sankar Bagchi,Arnab Das Pdf

Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: Whether alternative perspectives should be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third World countries? Should there be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens or are we talking about two diametrically opposite trends and standards of human rights for the same species? How far these Third World perspectives of human rights can ensure the protection of the minorities and the vulnerable sections of population, particularly the women and children within the Third World? Can these alternative perspectives help in fighting the Third World problems like poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism, social exclusion like the caste system in India, communalism, and the like? Can there be reconciliation between the Third World perspectives and the Western perspective of human rights?

Author : George W. Shepherd,Ved Nanda
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011307017

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Human Rights and Third World Development by George W. Shepherd,Ved Nanda Pdf

The intertwining of development and human rights is the subject of the twelve essays collected by the editors. The individual authors extensively examine the commonly held belief that economic development cannot take place in Third World countries without the short term sacrifice of political liberty and demonstrate that there is considerable evidence to the contrary. Following a theoretical stage-setting that concentrates on the severe power limitations and the dependency of weak Third World states, case studies focus on such issues as state terrorism, food, the right to modernize, refugees, and support of apartheid in Latin America, the People's Republic of China, the Middle East, and Africa. Several essays concern the implementation of human rights and the role of multinational corporations and international nongovernmental organizations in protecting them. The final essay considers the international framework of government, law, and organization as a means for implementing human rights development in the Third World.

Author : Derrick M. Nault,Shawn L. England
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230316966

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Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World by Derrick M. Nault,Shawn L. England Pdf

Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.

Author : Rohimi Hj. Shapiee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCBK:C086575371

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Third Generation Human Rights by Rohimi Hj. Shapiee Pdf

Author : Noam Chomsky,Edward S. Herman
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 0896080900

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The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism by Noam Chomsky,Edward S. Herman Pdf

Analyzes U.S. policy in Latin America, Asia, and Africa media and the role of the media in misreporting these policies.

Author : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509560646

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World Poverty and Human Rights by Thomas W. Pogge Pdf

Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong. Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0801487765

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Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice by Jack Donnelly Pdf

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674984820

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Not Enough by Samuel Moyn Pdf

The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice. In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to fulfill their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its original European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global scale. But their plans were foiled as a neoliberal faith in markets triumphed instead. Moyn places the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift from the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Exploring why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside enduring and exploding inequality, and why activists came to seek remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to achieve a humane and equitable world.

Author : Roland Burke
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812205329

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Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights by Roland Burke Pdf

In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods, and priorities to the human rights program. Their influence was magnified by the highly effective nature of Asian, Arab, and African diplomacy in the UN human rights bodies and the sheer numerical superiority of the so-called Afro-Asian bloc. Owing to the nature of General Assembly procedure, the Third World states dominated the human rights agenda, and enthusiastic support for universal human rights was replaced by decades of authoritarianism and an increasingly strident rejection of the ideas laid out in the Universal Declaration. In Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights, Roland Burke explores the changing impact of decolonization on the UN human rights program. By recovering the contributions of those Asian, African, and Arab voices that joined the global rights debate, Burke demonstrates the central importance of Third World influence across the most pivotal battles in the United Nations, from those that secured the principle of universality, to the passage of the first binding human rights treaties, to the flawed but radical step of studying individual pleas for help. The very presence of so many independent voices from outside the West, and the often defensive nature of Western interventions, complicates the common presumption that the postwar human rights project was driven by Europe and the United States. Drawing on UN transcripts, archives, and the personal papers of key historical actors, this book challenges the notion that the international rights order was imposed on an unwilling and marginalized Third World. Far from being excluded, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern diplomats were powerful agents in both advancing and later obstructing the promotion of human rights.

Author : M. Rodwan Abouharb,David Cingranelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139465960

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Human Rights and Structural Adjustment by M. Rodwan Abouharb,David Cingranelli Pdf

'Structural adjustment' has been a central part of the development strategy for the 'third world'. Loans made by the World Bank and the IMF have been conditional on developing countries pursuing rapid economic liberalization programmes as it was believed this would strengthen their economies in the long run. M. Rodwan Abouharb and David Cingranelli argue that, conversely, structural adjustment agreements usually cause increased hardship for the poor, greater civil conflict, and more repression of human rights, therefore resulting in a lower rate of economic development. Greater exposure to structural adjustment has increased the prevalence of anti-government protests, riots and rebellion. It has led to less respect for economic and social rights, physical integrity rights, and worker rights, but more respect for democratic rights. Based on these findings, the authors recommend a human rights-based approach to economic development.

Author : Margot E. Salomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015080815742

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Global Responsibility for Human Rights by Margot E. Salomon Pdf

This text considers the issues of world poverty and global justice, addressing the ability of people in poor or developing countries to have enough food, or clean water, or access to basic healthcare. It draws on international law aimed at the protection and promotion of human rights.

Author : George W. Shepherd Jr.,Ved Nanda
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313242762

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Human Rights and Third World Development by George W. Shepherd Jr.,Ved Nanda Pdf

The intertwining of development and human rights is the subject of the twelve essays collected by the editors. The individual authors extensively examine the commonly held belief that economic development cannot take place in Third World countries without the short term sacrifice of political liberty and demonstrate that there is considerable evidence to the contrary. Following a theoretical stage-setting that concentrates on the severe power limitations and the dependency of weak Third World states, case studies focus on such issues as state terrorism, food, the right to modernize, refugees, and support of apartheid in Latin America, the People's Republic of China, the Middle East, and Africa. Several essays concern the implementation of human rights and the role of multinational corporations and international nongovernmental organizations in protecting them. The final essay considers the international framework of government, law, and organization as a means for implementing human rights development in the Third World.