Making Rights Real

Author : Charles R. Epp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226211664

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It’s a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers. Charles R. Epp argues, however, that few Americans would want to return to an era without these legalistic policies, which in the 1970s helped bring recalcitrant bureaucracies into line with a growing national commitment to civil rights and individual dignity. Focusing on three disparate policy areas—workplace sexual harassment, playground safety, and police brutality in both the United States and the United Kingdom—Epp explains how activists and professionals used legal liability, lawsuit-generated publicity, and innovative managerial ideas to pursue the implementation of new rights. Together, these strategies resulted in frameworks designed to make institutions accountable through intricate rules, employee training, and managerial oversight. Explaining how these practices became ubiquitous across bureaucratic organizations, Epp casts today’s legalistic state in an entirely new light.

Author : Ian Leigh,Roger Masterman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847314512

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Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness. The focus of Making Rights Real is on the extent to which the Act has delivered on the promise to 'bring rights home'. To that end the book considers how the judiciary, parliament and the executive have performed in the new roles that the Human Rights Act requires them to play and the courts' application of the Act in different legal spheres. This account cuts through the rhetoric and controversy surrounding the Act, generated by its champions and detractors alike, to reach a measured assessment. The true impact in public law, civil law, criminal law and on anti-terrorism legislation are each considered. Finally, the book discusses whether we are now nearer to a new constitutional settlement and to the promised new 'rights culture'.

Author : Jody Heymann,Adele Cassola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107008458

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Making Equal Rights Real by Jody Heymann,Adele Cassola Pdf

Details approaches to implementing equal rights for women in Africa, children in the Middle East and different minorities in Asia and North America.

Author : Filip Spagnoli
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780875865690

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The most important characteristics of human rights are enumerated in a clear and concise discussion that analyzes the problem of making human rights real, not just hypothetical, worldwide. Building on definitions of human rights used by the United Nations and other international bodies, and without being sidetracked by nettlesome discussions of specific troubling cases of rights abuses, the author describes the main characteristics of the system of human rights. He focuses on universality, interdependence, differences between types of rights, absolute or limited rights, the subjects of rights (individuals or groups) and the links between rights and the judicial system and between rights and democracy. He then discusses some of the instruments we can use to promote respect for human rights, the means by which we might make these rights real for a greater portion of humanity. Along the way, he analyzes some of the related controversies regarding sovereignty versus international intervention, globalization and questions of cultural imperialism as they bear upon human rights. When do we have a right to impose rights or to defend ourselves from intervention? This systematic discussion presents a complex and difficult topic in an understandable framework accessible to the general public, and will stand as a useful foundation for readings of more specialized scientific, legal and philosophical works. Where most human rights books for the nonspecialist focus on specific instances of rights abuses, this work provides a more general approach focused on the logic in the system of human rights.

Author : Els de Graauw
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501703492

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Making Immigrant Rights Real by Els de Graauw Pdf

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits in many cities have stepped into this gap to promote the integration of disadvantaged immigrants. They have done so despite notable constraints on their political activities, including limits on their lobbying and partisan electioneering, limited organizational resources, and dependence on government funding. Immigrant rights advocates also operate in a national context focused on immigration enforcement rather than immigrant integration. In Making Immigrant Rights Real, Els de Graauw examines how immigrant-serving nonprofits can make impressive policy gains despite these limitations. Drawing on three case studies of immigrant rights policies—language access, labor rights, and municipal ID cards—in San Francisco, de Graauw develops a tripartite model of advocacy strategies that nonprofits have used to propose, enact, and implement immigrant-friendly policies: administrative advocacy, cross-sectoral and cross-organizational collaborations, and strategic issue framing. The inventive development and deployment of these strategies enabled immigrant-serving nonprofits in San Francisco to secure some remarkable new immigrant rights victories, and de Graauw explores how other cities can learn from their experiences.

Author : Terrence E. Paupp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107783126

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Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development by Terrence E. Paupp Pdf

Human rights in peace and development are accepted throughout the Global South as established, normative, and beyond debate. Only in the powerful elite sectors of the Global North have these rights been resisted and refuted. The policies and interests of these global forces are antithetical to advancing human rights, ending global poverty, and respecting the sovereign integrity of States and governments throughout the Global South. The link between poverty, war, and environmental degradation has become evident over the last 60 years, further augmenting international consciousness of these issues as interconnected with the rest of the human rights corpus. This book examines the history of this struggle and outlines practical means to implement these rights through a global framework of constitutional protections. Within this emerging framework, it argues that States will be increasingly obligated to formulate policies and programs to achieve peace and development throughout the global society.

Author : Els de Graauw
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501703485

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Making Immigrant Rights Real by Els de Graauw Pdf

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits in many cities have stepped into this gap to promote the integration of disadvantaged immigrants. They have done so despite notable constraints on their political activities, including limits on their lobbying and partisan electioneering, limited organizational resources, and dependence on government funding. Immigrant rights advocates also operate in a national context focused on immigration enforcement rather than immigrant integration. In Making Immigrant Rights Real, Els de Graauw examines how immigrant-serving nonprofits can make impressive policy gains despite these limitations. Drawing on three case studies of immigrant rights policies—language access, labor rights, and municipal ID cards—in San Francisco, de Graauw develops a tripartite model of advocacy strategies that nonprofits have used to propose, enact, and implement immigrant-friendly policies: administrative advocacy, cross-sectoral and cross-organizational collaborations, and strategic issue framing. The inventive development and deployment of these strategies enabled immigrant-serving nonprofits in San Francisco to secure some remarkable new immigrant rights victories, and de Graauw explores how other cities can learn from their experiences.

Author : Fay Faraday,Margaret Denike,M. Kate Stephenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552211819

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Making Equality Rights Real by Fay Faraday,Margaret Denike,M. Kate Stephenson Pdf

Making Equality Rights Real critically assesses the state of equality jurisprudence from many angles. These 13 essays attempt to advance substantive equality as section 15 of the Charter moves into its second generation. Each of the papers in this collection aims to deepen our understandings of the dynamics of inequality and oppression.

Author : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400846283

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Making Human Rights a Reality by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton Pdf

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for international law to have much impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk. Emilie Hafner-Burton argues that more progress is possible if human rights promoters work strategically with the group of states that have dedicated resources to human rights protection. These human rights "stewards" can focus their resources on places where the tangible benefits to human rights are greatest. Success will require setting priorities as well as engaging local stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions. To date, promoters of international human rights law have relied too heavily on setting universal goals and procedures and not enough on assessing what actually works and setting priorities. Hafner-Burton illustrates how, with a different strategy, human rights stewards can make international law more effective and also safeguard human rights for more of the world population.

Author : Andressa Gadda,Juliet Harris,E. Kay M. Tisdall,Elizabeth Millership,Ursula Kilkelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000164558

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Human Rights Monitoring and Implementation by Andressa Gadda,Juliet Harris,E. Kay M. Tisdall,Elizabeth Millership,Ursula Kilkelly Pdf

The collection aims to inspire readers with new approaches to implementing and monitoring the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to make rights ‘real’ in children’s lives. Children’s human rights are internationally recognised in the legally binding international treaty—the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most ratified of all human rights treaties. Although measures are increasingly being taken to implement the Convention at a national level, more needs to be done to ensure that children’s rights are recognised and supported in their daily lives. This collection brings together the latest research on new approaches to embedding children’s rights into national law and policies, with contributions from academics, practitioners and importantly young activists, from the UK and beyond. This book will be of interest to all human rights advocates, particularly policy makers and practitioners looking for new ways in which to make children’s rights real. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay,Shamim Meer
Publisher : Kit Pub
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132257317

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Gender, Society and Development by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay,Shamim Meer Pdf

This is an area that needs considerable research, and this publication explores some of the key issues at stake.

Author : Lisa Vanhala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1139006940

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Making Rights a Reality? by Lisa Vanhala Pdf

"Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. It then shows how the diffusion of this rights model of disability can explain how and why disability activists have deployed legal strategies in pursuit of their goals. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jody Heymann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1139337599

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Making Equal Rights Real by Jody Heymann Pdf

Details approaches to implementing equal rights for women in Africa, children in the Middle East and different minorities in Asia and North America.

Author : Manabendra Nath Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X004667370

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The Radical Humanist by Manabendra Nath Roy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112101077982

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Virginia Law Journal by Anonim Pdf