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Author : Jon Piccini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472777
Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.
Author : Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139494106
Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.
Author : Alison Louise Holland
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742586872
When Mary Bennett died in 1961, Australia lost one of its leading Aboriginal rights activists. Mary's crusade is still, sadly, a current one, and this book serves to historicize the ongoing struggle for Aboriginal rights through the lens of Mary's campaign. By tracing Mary's advocacy - from the 1920s, when the possibility of Aboriginal human rights was first mooted, to the 1960s, when an attempt was made to have the Aboriginal question raised before the United Nations - Just Relations charts a large portion of human rights history. However, the book also tracks a discourse of needs, moral codes, and sentiments, as well as the urgent goal of keeping people alive. In this sense, then, Mary Bennett's story demonstrates the close connection between the rise of humanitarianism as a political project and the rise of human rights. ***Just Relations was shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier's Australian History Prize. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Biography, Aboriginal Studies, Human Rights, Australian Studies, History]
Author : Tim Soutphommasane
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781742242057
Is Australia a 'racist' country? Why do issues of race and culture seem to ignite public debate so readily? Tim Soutphommasane, Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner, reflects on the national experience of racism and the progress that has been made since the introduction of the Racial Discrimination Act in 1975. As the first federal human rights and discrimination legislation, the Act was a landmark demonstration of Australia's commitment to eliminating racism. Published to coincide with the Act's fortieth anniversary, this book gives a timely and incisive account of the history of racism, the limits of free speech, the dimensions of bigotry and the role of legislation in our society's response to discrimination. With contributions by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Bindi Cole Chocka, Benjamin Law, Alice Pung and Christos Tsiolkas.
Author : Jon Piccini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137529145
Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of these rebellions, as well as locating the impact of radical visitors to the nation. It situates Australian protest and reform movements within a properly global – and particularly Asian – context, where Australian protestors sought answers, utopias and allies. Dramatically broadens our understanding of Australian protest movements, this book presents them not only as manifestations of local issues and causes but as fundamentally tied to ideas, developments and personalities overseas, particularly to socialist states and struggles in near neighbours like Vietnam, Malaysia and China.'Jon Piccini is Research and Teaching Fellow at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include the history of human rights and social histories of international student migration.'
Author : Robyn Blewer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030697914
This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the relevant law was – or was not - applied throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the impact ‘safeguards’ like corroboration and closed court rules had on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear – of children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform – influenced the criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same’.
Author : Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107107649
Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920
Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356
Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.
Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836791
Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.
Author : Beth A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521885102
Beth Simmons demonstrates through a combination of statistical analysis and case studies that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. She argues that international human rights law should get more practical and rhetorical support from the international community as a supplement to broader efforts to address conflict, development, and democratization.
Author : Sarah Shortall,Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424707
This volume showcases the work of a new generation of scholars interested in the historical connection between religion and human rights in the twentieth century, offering a truly global perspective on the internal diversity, theological roots, and political implications of Christian human rights theory.
Author : Jay Winter,Antoine Prost
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107355460
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.
Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783742219
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 : Cassandra Byrnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040038802
This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia’s most conservative state, Queensland. In western nations, there has largely been a consistent increase in available contraception and access to abortion from the 1960s onwards, yet there are a few geographical exceptions that resisted this trend, including Queensland. Cassandra Byrnes highlights the multifarious ways sexuality and reproduction were continually constructed and challenged during the second half of the twentieth century and follows the responses of key groups to changing laws and attitudes in a time of local and global sexual and social revolutions. She explores interactions between identities of gender, sexuality, class, age, marital status, and geography to illustrate how specific sexed bodies became liminal sites for legal and medical debate. This Queensland case study is contextualised within international debates concerning women’s reproductive rights and will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the history of reproductive rights, gender, and sexuality.
