Law S Cut On The Body Of Human Rights

Author : Juliet Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134097234

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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights by Juliet Rogers Pdf

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.

Author : Juliet Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134097302

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Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights by Juliet Rogers Pdf

Scenes of violence and incisions into the flesh inform the demand for law. The scene of little girls being held down in practices of female circumcision has been a defining and definitive image that demands the attention of human rights, and the intervention of law. But the investment in protecting women and little girls from such a cut is not all that it seems. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh considers how such images come to inform law and the investment of advocates of law in an imagination of this scene. Drawing on psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory, and accompanying ideas in political theology, Juliet Rogers examines the language, imagery and excitement that accompanies recent initiatives to legislate against what is called 'female genital mutilation'. The author compliments this examination with a consideration of the scene of torture exposed in images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Rogers argues that the modes of fascination and excitement that accompany scenes of torture and female circumcision betray the fantasy of a political condition against which the subject of liberal law is imagined; this is subjectivity in a state of non-mutilation, non-prohibition or, in a psychoanalytic idiom, non-castration. To support the fantasy of this subject, the mutilated subject, the authors suggests, is rendered as flesh cut from the democratic nation state, deserving of only selective human rights, or none at all.

Author : Québec (Province)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4GRK

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Civil Code of Lower Canada by Québec (Province) Pdf

Author : Castan Centre for Human Rights Law,United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0975244256

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Human Rights Translated by Castan Centre for Human Rights Law,United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

"The purpose of this publication is to contribute to [the] process of clarification by explaining universally recognised human rights in a way that makes sense to business. The publication also aims to illustrate, through the use of case studies and actions, how human rights are relevant in a corporate context and how human rights issues can be managed."--Introduction, p. vii.

Author : Suzanne Egan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Professional
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847661092

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The UN Human Rights Treaty System by Suzanne Egan Pdf

The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Law and Procedure examines the core UN human rights treaties that form the framework of international human rights law. This book describes the development of each treaty, along with the substantive rights enshrined in them, and analyses the nature and functions of their respective monitoring bodies. Topics discussed include periodic reporting procedures, investigative procedures and individual complaint procedures, with supporting case law analysed in great detail. This practical and indispensable reference resource: - Guides you through the structure of each of the core UN human rights treaties, explaining both the substance of the rights and the various procedures which may be drawn upon to implement those rights - Explains in detail how each of these procedures may be accessed, as well as critiquing their operation in practice - Covers a wide number of areas including civil and political rights generally, racial and gender-based discrimination and the prohibition against torture - Discusses proposals for reform of the UN human rights treaty monitoring system and the implications of these reforms The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Law and Procedure has been written for practitioners and students of human rights law in the UK, Ireland and abroad. Government bodies, non-governmental organisations, national human rights institutions and charities will also find this a great resource.

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 : Charlotte Proudman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198864608

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Female Genital Mutilation by Charlotte Proudman Pdf

Female genital mutilation (FGM) has garnered significant media, political and legal attention in the UK. Despite criminalising the practice in 1985, FGM continues undetected and often underground. This monograph provides a unique insight into survivor's attitudes towards FGM as well as the criminalisation of a culturally embedded practice. Some of the narratives might be deeply uncomfortable as women sympathise and even uphold the practice, whilst others viscerally describe the trauma and pain that they endured. Digging deeper into efforts to eliminate FGM, professionals at the coalface of the end FGM movement provide their views on whether the practice can ever be eradicated. This volume explores the key themes that emerged from the well-publicised criminal trials in the UK and the barriers that prevent the law from working effectively. One of the obstacles that are examined further is the legal double standard in criminalising FGM whilst permitting female genital cosmetic surgery, which incites hostility and anger amongst FGM-performing communities. Whilst ending FGM is imperative, this enlightening work reflects on the unintended consequences that stem from punitive efforts to criminalise a practice performed by often Black, migrant communities. Women describe their experiences of racism and Islamophobia in a context of police surveillance and hyperbolic media narratives. In an effort of encouraging the abandonment of FGM, this publication highlights the need for the law to be accompanied by education initiatives at a grass-root level.

Author : Annabelle Mooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119838

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Human Rights and the Body by Annabelle Mooney Pdf

Human Rights and the Body is a response to the crisis in human rights, to the very real concern that without a secure foundation for the concept of human rights, their very existence is threatened. While there has been consideration of the discourses of human rights and the way in which the body is written upon, research in linguistics has not yet been fully brought to bear on either human rights or the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, Mooney aims to provide a universally defensible set of human rights and a foundation, or rather a frame, for them. She argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of human rights and semiotics of law.

Author : Ping Xiong
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004226593

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An International Law Perspective on the Protection of Human Rights in the TRIPS Agreement by Ping Xiong Pdf

This book offers an analysis of the interpretation of the WTO TRIPS Agreement and its impact on the right to health. It furthers understanding of WTO jurisprudence and researches the topic in a broad framework of international law. It examines the extent to which the patent protections in the TRIPS Agreement are consistent with the right to health, and in particular with access to medicine. It helps to underpin an understanding of the relationship between human rights law and intellectual property law – specifically between the right to health and patent protection. It usefully analyses the relationship between TRIPS and the right to health and develops an understanding of interpretive techniques for use within WTO dispute settlement.

Author : Conor Gearty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521866446

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Can Human Rights Survive? by Conor Gearty Pdf

In this 2006 book, Conor Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for future generations.

Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808853

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World Report 2019 by Human Rights Watch Pdf

The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.

Author : Leena Grover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107006546

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UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies by Leena Grover Pdf

An analysis of the UN human rights treaty bodies, their methods of interpretation, their effectiveness and issues of legitimacy.

Author : Sahar Ghumkhor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030320614

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The Political Psychology of the Veil by Sahar Ghumkhor Pdf

Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ‘natural’ body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West’s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women’s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West’s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West’s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ‘other’ – thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is.

Author : Philip Alston,Ryan Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199578726

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International Human Rights by Philip Alston,Ryan Goodman Pdf

"The successor to International human rights in context: law, politics and morals."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023443515

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The Reagan Administration's Record on Human Rights in 1988 by Anonim Pdf

- U.S. human rights law