The Struggle For Human Rights

Author : Nehal Bhuta,Florian Hoffmann,Sarah Knuckey,édéric Mégret,Margaret Satterthwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198868064

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The Struggle for Human Rights by Nehal Bhuta,Florian Hoffmann,Sarah Knuckey,édéric Mégret,Margaret Satterthwaite Pdf

The Struggle for Human Rights evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice which together define international human rights practice and scholarship. Taking as it's inspiration the 40 year career of international human rights advocate Philip Alston, this book of essays examines foundational debates central to the evolution of the human rights project. It critiques the reform of human rights institutions and reflects on the place of human rights practice in contemporary society. Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and critics of human rights from a variety of disciplines, The Struggle for Human Rights addresses the most urgent questions posed within the field of human rights today - its practice and its theory. Rethinking assumptions and re-evaluating strategies in the law, politics, and practice of international human rights, this book is essential reading for academics and human rights professionals around the world.

Author : Clifford Bob
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201345

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The International Struggle for New Human Rights by Clifford Bob Pdf

In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms before the United Nations and other international bodies. Often, these claims have met strong resistance from governments and corporations. More surprisingly, even apparent allies, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other nongovernmental organizations, have voiced misgivings, arguing that rights "proliferation" will weaken efforts to protect their traditional concerns: civil and political rights. Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? How do local activists transform long-standing problems into universal rights claims? When and why do human rights groups, governments, and international organizations endorse new rights? The International Struggle for New Human Rights is the first book to address these issues. Focusing on activists who advance new rights, the book introduces a framework for understanding critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional problems and embrace pressing new ones. Essays in the volume consider rights activism by such groups as the South Asian Dalits, sexual minorities, and children of wartime rape victims, while others explore new issues such as health rights, economic rights, and the right to water. Examining both the successes and failures of such campaigns, The International Struggle for New Human Rights will be a key resource not only for scholars but also for those on the front lines of human rights work.

Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691205144

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A World Divided by Eric D. Weitz Pdf

A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have established states that grant human rights to some people while excluding others, setting the stage for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international human rights will move us beyond a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.

Author : Debra L. DeLaet
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0534635725

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The Global Struggle for Human Rights by Debra L. DeLaet Pdf

THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS combines uniquely strong coverage of human rights in relation to gender equity, feminist perspectives, and sexual orientation with the theme of a universal perspective on human rights that is sensitive to cultural differences and diversity among and within nations. The book is also comprehensive and accessible in its discussion of human rights law and the question of whether human rights are universal. DeLaet also addresses the tension between state sovereignty and human rights, genocide, economic rights, and various concepts of justice as they relate to the promotion of fundamental human rights.

Author : Lorenzo S. Togni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X002559908

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The Struggle for Human Rights by Lorenzo S. Togni Pdf

Deals with the history of the human rights movement, and slavery in many parts of the world. Includes biographies of human rights activists and abusers, as well as the text of the Draft Bill of Rights of the African National Congress, the Draft Charter of Fundamental Rights (issued by the South African Government in February 1993), Fundamental Rights proposed in the Constitution of the State of Kwazulu/Natal, the Organization of African Unity's African Charter on Human and People's Rights, and the Bill of Rights for the Transitional Period in the Republic of South Africa.

Author : International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3515083278

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Pluralism and Law by International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. World Congress Pdf

Contents: Arend Soeteman: Introduction - Edmund Abegg: Justice and the Intrinsic Value of Humans - Caridad Velarde: Universalism in Contemporary Human Rights Theory - Marijan Pavcnik: Gleichheit als rechtlicher Kern der Gerechtigkeit, Gerechtigkeitsma�st�be und Recht - Jos� Rubio-Carracedo: Differentiated Universalization of Human Rights - Ashok Gaur: Human Rights: Dimensions and Challenges - Martin Borowski: Religious Freedom as a Fundamental Legal Right, A Rawlsian Perspective - J�rg Paul Mueller: Is freedom of conscience still a topic? - Burton M. Leiser: The Right to Immigrate and the Right to Exclude Immigrants - J.W. Harris: Rights and Resources - Libertarians and the Right to Life - Hans-Rudolf Horn: The Scope of Human and Social Rights in the Global Economic System - Isabel Trujillo P�rez: Partiality and Distributive Justice - Haig Khatchadourian: Merit as a Canon of Distributive Justice - Francesco Biondo: Conception of the person and currency of distributive justice in Van Parijs and Sen - Carlos Kohn Wacher: Hannah Arendt's Concept of Solidarity as a Criticism to Liberalism - Mikko Wennberg: Contract Law as a Response to Contract Failures: When Contracting Fails? - Hendrik Kaptein: Just Criminal Lawyers? Professional ethics and problems of punitive justice: restorative perspectives - Joan McGregor: The Law's Treatment of Rape as Expressing the Inequality of Women - David A. Reidy: The Justification of Hate Crimes Laws: The Argument from Group-Based Oppression - Alexandra George: The Problem of Property in Human Body Parts - Laura Palazzani: Person and Human Being in Bioethics and Biolaw - Jan Swanepoel: The Equality Jurisprudence Developed by South Africa's Constitutional Court since 1994 - Nikolas Roos: Fundamental Rights, European Identity and Law as a Way to Survive.

Author : Carol Elaine Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521531586

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Eyes Off the Prize by Carol Elaine Anderson Pdf

This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.

Author : W. Korey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230108165

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NGO's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by W. Korey Pdf

When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a 'curious grapevine' would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls. This book tells the extraordinary story of how NGOs became the 'grapevine' she anticipated - sharpening our awareness about the violations of human rights, 'shaming' its most notorious abusers and creating the international mechanisms to bring about implementation of the Declaration. Korey traces how NGO's laid the groundwork for the destruction of the Soviet empire, as well as of the apartheid system in South Africa, and established the principle of accountability for crimes against humanity. The notion of human rights has progressed from being a marginal part of international relations a half century ago to stand today as a critical element in diplomatic discourse and this book shows that it is the NGOs that have placed human rights at the centre of humankind's present and future agenda.

Author : Bård A. Andreassen,Gordon Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134121106

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Human Rights, Power and Civic Action by Bård A. Andreassen,Gordon Crawford Pdf

Human Rights, Power and Civic Action examines the interrelationship between struggles for human rights and the dynamics of power, focusing on situations of poverty and oppression in developing countries. It is argued that the concept of power is a relatively neglected one in the study of rights-based approaches to development, especially the ways in which structures and relations of power can limit human rights advocacy. Therefore this book focuses on how local and national struggles for rights have been constrained by power relations and structural inequalities, as well as the extent to which civic action has been able to challenge, alter or transform such power structures, and simultaneously to enhance protection of people’s basic human rights. Contributors examine and compare struggles to advance human rights by non-governmental actors in Cambodia, China, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The country case-studies analyse structures of power responsible for the negation and denial of human rights, as well as how rights-promoting organisations challenge such structures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book provides empirically grounded studies leading to new theoretical understanding of the interrelationships between human rights struggles, power and poverty reduction. Human Rights, Power and Civic Action will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights politics, power, development, and governance.

Author : Shannon Speed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073859400

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Rights in Rebellion by Shannon Speed Pdf

An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

Author : William Paul Simmons
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812295740

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Joyful Human Rights by William Paul Simmons Pdf

In popular, legal, and academic discourses, the term "human rights" is now almost always discussed in relation to its opposite: human rights abuses. Syllabi, textbooks, and articles focus largely on victimization and trauma, with scarcely a mention of a positive dimension. Joy, especially, is often discounted and disregarded. William Paul Simmons asserts that there is a time and place—and necessity—in human rights work for being joyful. Joyful Human Rights leads us to challenge human rights' foundations afresh. Focusing on joy shifts the way we view victims, perpetrators, activists, and martyrs; and mitigates our propensity to express paternalistic or heroic attitudes toward human rights victims. Victims experience joy—indeed, it is often what sustains them and, in many cases, what best facilitates their recovery from trauma. Instead of reducing individuals merely to victim status or the tragedies they have experienced, human rights workers can help harmed individuals reclaim their full humanity, which includes positive emotions such as joy. A joy-centered approach provides new insights into foundational human rights issues such as motivations of perpetrators , trauma and survivorship, the work of social movements and activists, philosophical and historical origins of human rights, and the politicization of human rights. Many concepts rarely discussed in the field play important roles here, including social erotics, clowning, dancing, expressive arts therapy, posttraumatic growth, and the Buddhist terms metta (loving kindness) and mudita (sympathetic joy). Joyful Human Rights provides a new framework—one based upon a more comprehensive understanding of human experiences—for theorizing and practicing a more affirmative and robust notion of human rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Amesbury,G. M. Newlands
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451408454

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Faith and Human Rights by Richard Amesbury,G. M. Newlands Pdf

This book argues that the idea of human rights is not exclusively religious, but that its realization in practice requires urgent action on the part of people of all faiths, and of none. Acknowledging the ambiguous moral legacy of their own tradition, Christianity, the authors draw on christological themes to draft blueprints for a culturally sensitive "theology of human rights."

Author : Rosemary Foot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198297758

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Rights Beyond Borders by Rosemary Foot Pdf

Part One: The setting

Author : Alicia Ely Yamin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780812247749

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Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity by Alicia Ely Yamin Pdf

Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for greater justice in health it entails.