Human Wrongs

Author : T. J. Coles
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785358654

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A devastating analysis of modern Britain. Britain is a forward-thinking, human-rights protecting beacon of democracy, right? Think again! Written in time for the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this book is a documented exposé of Britain's domestic human rights abuses under successive governments from the year 2000 to the present. It covers the deaths of the 20,000 pensioners a year who can't afford heating, the 40,000 people who succumb to air pollution each year, the limits on freedom of speech (including libel law), mass surveillance of Britons by the deep state, and much, much more. By comparing Britain to other rich countries on issues as diverse as infant mortality, child wellbeing, ethnic rights, and union membership, Human Wrongs reveals just how anti-human the British system really is for people of a certain class, gender, disability and/or ethnicity.

Author : Colin Tatz
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922235688

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Human Rights and Human Wrongs by Colin Tatz Pdf

Racism crushes bodies and souls. In Human Rights and Human Wrongs Colin Tatz – a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Aboriginal Studies in Australia and an author of major works on genocide, Aboriginal youth suicide, and Aboriginal and Islander sporting achievements – tells his personal story. Born and educated in South Africa, Tatz worked to expose and oppose that nation’s centuries-old apartheid regimes before leaving for what he thought would be a more enlightened nation, only to find in Australia striking parallels of that other dismal universe. As a researcher, writer and activist he has dedicated his life to confronting what people do to other people on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Here he also relates how alienation, his Jewishness and an intriguing problem with food have been, for him, propelling forces. Tatz’s story, ranging from Southern Africa to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Israel, is an important one for anyone genuinely interested in the struggle to achieve social justice for minorities and marginalised peoples.

Author : Nicholas J. Owen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192802194

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Author : Helen Fein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317257974

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Human Rights and Wrongs by Helen Fein Pdf

Human Rights and Wrongs explains the persistence of crimes against humanity since the Holocaust-including slavery, terror, and genocide. Using extended country descriptions and analyses, the book goes beyond case studies to explain such gross human rights violations in terms of an integrated theory of life integrity, giving readers vivid illustrations in addition to a theoretical framework. Distinguished author Helen Fein then asks how we can arrest human wrongs and discusses whether democracy is the answer. She shows the positive links among human rights, freedom, and development and draws out policy recommendations from her findings.

Author : Stan Thomas
Publisher : Variocity
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781933037271

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When a black law professor agrees to defend a racist murderer, the stakes are higher than a mere guilty verdict... When Mitchell Dove is murdered and dismembered, his vicious killing tears open far-too-recent wounds and sends a shock wave throughout Black communities across the United States struggling to find their place. Professor of law Phil Dennison agrees to defend the white man on trial for killing Dove, who was the first African American CEO of the world's largest oil company--a promising and rising star in the corporate world. Trying to save the murderer John Robert Holloway, Professor Dennison finds himself the focus of national attention and stuck between the law and his community. Even Dennison's fianci, federal prosecutor Alicia Bloom, thinks he's crazy until he lets her in on the monumental opportunity he sees in this case: setting a legal precedent so fundamental that it could truly and finally give real teeth to the country's hate crime laws. As they work to acquit this racist monster, their sights are set on the real monsters, the people who created John Bob. Where does intolerance come from? Who creates hate? How do human beings become racist murderers? Human Wrongs is a fast-paced, richly detailed, intriguing novel that shines a brilliant and unsparing light on the causes of racism, hatred and intolerance. Yet another gruesome murder, in a long and demoralizing line of tragedies and brutalities suffered by the American Black community, is the backdrop for a story that seeks to show how deeply runs the vein that perpetuates Human Wrongs.

Author : Shambhu Ram Simkhada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000343380

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Human Rights Human Wrongs by Shambhu Ram Simkhada Pdf

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the best gift of the United Nations and its main human rights organ, the Human Rights Commission to “We, the Peoples of the World”. But that powerful instrument is often rendered powerless by the behaviour of individuals running the institutions and the states, arguably the most powerful institution conceptualised by human mind so far. In the process, the UN comes under serious criticism and its most important organ which helped give the UDHR was dissolved for “failing to live up to its ideals”. Ironically, the same states and their representatives most instrumental in creating the UN institutions, including the Human Rights Commission first but later vilifying it and leading the campaign for its replacement by the Human Rights Council are now once again attacking it as “hypocritical and self-serving organisation that makes a mockery of human rights” and the most powerful member state feels compelled to walk out of the Council. Where does the world, the UN and “we the peoples” stand in the search for greater freedom from want and fear, better enjoyment of dignity and rights? Travelling through an extraordinary journey of life, academic pursuits and expeditions of professional and diplomatic mountain climbing, including the Chairmanship of the 56th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights and its 5th Special Session on the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestine Territories, Shambhu Ram Simkhada presents a scholarly, diplomatic, advocate and defender perspectives on the contemporary state of human rights and human wrongs in the scale of his own human conscience. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Tom Regan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780742599383

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Animal Rights, Human Wrongs by Tom Regan Pdf

Regan provides the theoretical framework that grounds a responsible pro-animal rights perspective, and ultimately explores how asking moral questions about other animals can lead to a better understanding of ourselves.

Author : M.S. Gill
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8176255025

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Author : Simon Baughen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780857934765

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Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs by Simon Baughen Pdf

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 : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780786737734

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Rights from Wrongs by Alan M. Dershowitz Pdf

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 : John R. W. Stott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000044449612

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Human Rights and Human Wrongs shows you that it is our responsibility to demonstrate Christ's love through participation in social action. John Stott begins this discussion by documenting the evangelical heritage of service that originated with the ministry of Jesus Christ and the apostles and culminated with the social reforms and economical improvements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He then examines today's critical issues and stresses the urgent need to meet the crises of our time with "a Christian mind."

Author : Robin Kirk
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641605625

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Righting Wrongs by Robin Kirk Pdf

Many young people aren't aware that determined individuals created the rights we now take for granted. The idea of human rights is relatively recent, coming out of a post–World War II effort to draw nations together and prevent or lessen suffering. Righting Wrongs introduces children to the true stories of 20 real people who invented and fought for these ideas. Without them, many of the rights we take for granted would not exist. These heroes have promoted women's, disabled, and civil rights; action on climate change; and the rights of refugees. These advocates are American, Sierra Leonean, Norwegian, and Argentinian. Eleven are women. Two identified as queer. Twelve are people of color. One campaigned for rights as a disabled person. Two identify as Indigenous. Two are Muslim and two are Hindu, and others range from atheist to devout Christian. There are two journalists, one general, three lawyers, one Episcopal priest, one torture victim, and one Holocaust survivor. Their stories of hope and hard work show how people working together can change the world for the better.

Author : Helen Fein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317257967

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Human Rights and Wrongs by Helen Fein Pdf

Human Rights and Wrongs explains the persistence of crimes against humanity since the Holocaust-including slavery, terror, and genocide. Using extended country descriptions and analyses, the book goes beyond case studies to explain such gross human rights violations in terms of an integrated theory of life integrity, giving readers vivid illustrations in addition to a theoretical framework. Distinguished author Helen Fein then asks how we can arrest human wrongs and discusses whether democracy is the answer. She shows the positive links among human rights, freedom, and development and draws out policy recommendations from her findings.

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136073946

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Human Rights and Private Wrongs by Alison Brysk Pdf

Human Rights and Private Wrongs breaks new ground by considering a series of fascinating issues that are normally ignored by human rights specialists because they are too "private" to consider as policy issues: children's labor migration; refugee policy towards unaccompanied minors; financial matters of investor and business responsibility; and complex questions involving access to the benefits of pharmaceutical research, transnational organ trafficking, and the control over genetic research.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809098

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Writing Wrongs by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

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.