Human Rights In Global Perspective

Author : Jon P. Mitchell,Richard A. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134409747

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Human Rights in Global Perspective by Jon P. Mitchell,Richard A. Wilson Pdf

In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities? Human Rights in a Global Perspective develops a social critique of rights agendas. It provides an understanding of how rights discussions and institutions can construct certain types of subjects such as victims and perpetrators, and certain types of act, such as common crimes and crimes against humanity. Using examples from the United States, Europe, India and South Africa, the authors restore the social dimension to rights processes and suggest some ethical alternatives to current practice.

Author : John Witte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041101772

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective:Legal Perspectives by John Witte Pdf

Author : John Witte,Johan D. van der Vyver
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802848559

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective by John Witte,Johan D. van der Vyver Pdf

The legal traditions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have contributed much to the cultivation and violation of religious human rights around the world. In this volume Desmond Tutu, Martin Marty, and twenty leading scholars offer an authoritative assessment of these contributions and challenge people of all faiths to adopt "golden rules of religious liberty."

Author : Marjorie Agosín
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813529832

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Women, Gender, and Human Rights by Marjorie Agosín Pdf

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Author : Susan C. Mapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190059477

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Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective by Susan C. Mapp Pdf

"Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective: An introduction to international social work provides an updated introduction to a variety of social issues in the Global South, including AIDS, human trafficking, as well as refugees and asylum seekers. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other UN human rights documents, is used as a framework to examine examples of social injustice and human rights violations. The issues are examined in their cultural contexts to help the reader understand how they developed and why they persist. Each chapter for a particular issue ends in a "Culture Box" which offers an in-depth look at the issue in a particular country, enabling the reader to gain a deeper understanding of how culture impacts the development of social issues. Interventions based on the human rights-based approach are integrated throughout the book. Suggestions for effecting change, both in one's personal as well as professional life are listed for each chapter and an Appendix offers a variety of resources for engaging in international social work"--

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Human Security in the Global E
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018097805

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The Politics of Human Rights by Tony Evans Pdf

This is a new edition of this popular introduction to the politics of human rights.Tony Evans argues that the state's central role in protecting and promoting rights has been severely weakened under globalization and that as a consequence human rights are becoming less attainable. As the value of the market grows, the value of individual human rights decreases. The author departs from traditional interpretations of human rights by focusing on the political economy of human rights rather than on the philosophical or legal aspects. He analyses how issues related to globalization, such as the environment, population movement patterns and free trade impact on individual human rights. In conclusion, he argues that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other major treaties must be renegotiated to take globalization into account.

Author : Susan C. Mapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199392278

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Human Rights and Social Justice in a Global Perspective by Susan C. Mapp Pdf

Recognizing the growing importance of awareness of international social issues for social workers, this thoroughly revised edition provides an updated introduction to a variety of these issues in the Global South, including AIDS, forced labor and war and conflict. A new issue in this edition is examining how the changing physical environment impacts social work practice around the world. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other UN human rights documents, is used as a framework to examine examples of social injustice and human rights violations. The issues are examined in their cultural contexts to help the reader understand how they developed and why they persist. Each chapter for a particular issue ends in a "Culture Box" which offers an in-depth look at the issue in a particular country, enabling the reader to gain a deeper understanding of how culture impacts the development of social issues. Suggestions for effecting change, both in one's personal or professional life are listed for each chapter and an Appendix offers a variety of resources for engaging in international social work.

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050485187

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The Politics of Human Rights by Tony Evans Pdf

Reveals the role played by identity documents in Israela s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians, from the 1940s to today."

Author : Richard Wilson,Jon P. Mitchell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415304091

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Human Rights in Global Perspective by Richard Wilson,Jon P. Mitchell Pdf

The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

Author : Vijay Chitnis,C. M. Madan,Murli Hotchand Hirani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8185561613

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Human Rights and the Law by Vijay Chitnis,C. M. Madan,Murli Hotchand Hirani Pdf

Author : José-Manuel Barreto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : John (jurista) Witte,Johan David Van der Vyver,Van der Vyver, J. D.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9041101764

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective by John (jurista) Witte,Johan David Van der Vyver,Van der Vyver, J. D. Pdf

In this 'Dickensian century' of human rights, the world has cultivated the best of religious rights protections, but witnessed the worst of religious rights abuses. In this volume, Jimmy Carter, John T. Noonan, Jr., and a score of leading jurists assess critically and comparatively the religious rights laws and practices of the international community and of selected states in the Atlantic continents. This volume and its companion Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious Perspectives are products of an ongoing project on religion, human rights and democracy undertaken by the Law and Religion Program at Emory University.

Author : Felipe Gómez Isa,Koen de Feyter
Publisher : Universidad de Deusto
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788498308136

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International Human Rights Law in a Global Context by Felipe Gómez Isa,Koen de Feyter Pdf

The international human rights system remains as dynamic as ever. If at the end of the last century there was a sense that the normative and institutional development of the system had been completed and that the emphasis should shift to issues of implementation, nothing of the sort occurred. Even over the last few years significant changes happened, as this book amply demonstrates. We hope that this Manual makes a contribution to the development of International Human Rights Law and is of interest for those working in the field of promotion and protection of human rights. The book is the result of a joint project under the auspices of HumanitarianNet, a Thematic Network led by the University of Deusto, and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice).

Author : John Witte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041101780

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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective by John Witte Pdf

Author : Ronald J. Krotoszynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199315215

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Privacy Revisited by Ronald J. Krotoszynski Pdf

'Privacy Revisited' articulates the legal meanings of privacy and dignity through the lens of comparative law, and argues that the concept of privacy requires a more systematic approach if it is to be useful in framing and protecting certain fundamental autonomy interests.