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Actualizing Human Rights

Author : Jos Philips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000056600
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actualizing Human Rights written by Jos Philips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. Firstly, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Secondly, the challenge of future people: how to adequately include future people in human rights, and how to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldwide can be motivated to do what it takes to realize human rights. Furthermore, it considers the common and prominent challenges of relativism and of the political abuse of human rights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, political philosophy, and more broadly political theory, philosophy and the wider social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011569, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Actualizing Human Rights

Author : Jos Philips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000049949
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actualizing Human Rights written by Jos Philips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ultimately human rights can be actualized, in two senses. By answering important challenges to them, the real-world relevance of human rights can be brought out; and people worldwide can be motivated as needed for realizing human rights. Taking a perspective from moral and political philosophy, the book focuses on two challenges to human rights that have until now received little attention, but that need to be addressed if human rights are to remain plausible as a global ideal. Firstly, the challenge of global inequality: how, if at all, can one be sincerely committed to human rights in a structurally greatly unequal world that produces widespread inequalities of human rights protection? Secondly, the challenge of future people: how to adequately include future people in human rights, and how to set adequate priorities between the present and the future, especially in times of climate change? The book also asks whether people worldwide can be motivated to do what it takes to realize human rights. Furthermore, it considers the common and prominent challenges of relativism and of the political abuse of human rights. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, political philosophy, and more broadly political theory, philosophy and the wider social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011569, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Human Rights

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415026109
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Peter Davies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1988 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making Human Rights a Reality

Author : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846285
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Making Human Rights a Reality written by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Human Rights Fifty Years On

Author : Tony Evans
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719051036
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Fifty Years On written by Tony Evans and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical reappraisal of the project for universal human rights. The twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were all marked by the publication of volumes that celebrated achievements in the field of human rights. Many of these took a self-congratulatory line that emphasized progress on the protection of human rights, ignoring the facts of torture, genocide, structural deprivation and the routine exclusion of some groups from political, economic and social participation. This book brings together some of the leading critics of the current project for universal human rights, including Noam Chomsky and Johan Galtung, as a counterweight to triumphalist approaches on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.

The Routledge History of Human Rights

Author : Jean Quataert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000627454
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Human Rights written by Jean Quataert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years. The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a "new internationalism" in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of Nations, and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization, and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms, laws, institutions, and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic, political, and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the present day, and reveal the contingent nature of historical developments. Highlighting local, national, and non-Western voices and struggles, the volume contributes to overcoming Eurocentric biases that burden human rights histories and studies of international law. It analyzes regions and organizations that are often overlooked. The volume thus offers readers a new and broader perspective on the subject. International in coverage and containing cutting-edge interpretations, the volume provides an overview of major themes and suggestions for future research. This is the perfect book for those interested in social justice, grass roots activism, and international politics and society.

Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

Author : M. Raymond Izarali
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351398458
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa written by M. Raymond Izarali and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution. African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and persons with albinism. This volume is geared toward scholars, students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers, international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of criminology, security studies, development studies, political science, sociology, children studies, social psychology, international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies.

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440745
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda written by Mary E. Stuckey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century later. The very elements of Carter's communications on human rights that engendered obstacles to the formation of a coherent and consistent policy--the term's vagueness, the difficulties of applying it, its uneasy relationship with national security interests, and the divergence between Democratic and Republican understandings--allowed "human rights" to become a useful rubric for presidents, both Democratic and Republican, who followed Carter. Stuckey discusses the key elements of how human rights came to the nation's attention.

Reinventing Human Rights

Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150363101X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Human Rights written by Mark Goodale and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path—away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo—Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree—for many different reasons—that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.

The New Politics of Human Rights

Author : James Avery Joyce
Publisher : London [etc.] : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of Human Rights written by James Avery Joyce and published by London [etc.] : Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the politics of human rights, with particular reference to the role of UN commission on human rights - examines the world situation regarding discrimination, racial discrimination, racial segregation, forced labour, apartheid, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, violence, colonialism, religious freedom, privacy, etc., and assesses the impact of the universal declaration for human rights on the respect of human dignity. Bibliography pp. 295 to 305 and references.

International Human Rights

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458779998
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book International Human Rights written by Jack Donnelly and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question often asked is 'where is a good starting place for learning about international human rights?' The answer now is Donnelly's International Human Rights. Eminently readable, chock-full of information, Donnelly's book is a must-read. (Human Rights Quarterly) In this new edition, Jack Donnelly updates his classic text on the rise of human rights issues since World War II to reflect the new challenges posed by globalization and the war on terrorism. The third edition includes two entirely new chapters on the Universality of Human Rights and Terrorism, and focuses on the recent emergence of nonstate actors such as the UN and NGO's.

The Future of Human Rights

Author : Upendra Baxi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019908789X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Human Rights written by Upendra Baxi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.

The Rise and Rise of Human Rights

Author : Kirsten Sellars
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Rise of Human Rights written by Kirsten Sellars and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents.

The United Nations and Human Rights

Author : Frédéric Mégret
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191544779
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations and Human Rights written by Frédéric Mégret and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others the United Nations has established a wide range of mechanisms to monitor compliance, and to seek to prevent as well as respond to violations. The panoply of implementation measures that the UN has taken since 1945 has resulted in a diverse and complex set of institutional arrangements, the effectiveness of which varies widely. Indeed, there is much doubt as to the effectiveness of much of the UN's human rights efforts but also about what direction it should take. Inevitable instances of politicization and the hostile, or at best ambivalent, attitude of most governments, has at times endangered the fragile progress made on the more technical fronts. At the same time, technical efforts cannot dispense with the complex politics of actualizing the promise of human rights at and through the UN. In addition to significant actual and potential problems of duplication, overlapping and inconsistent approaches, there are major problems of under-funding and insufficient expertise. The complexity of these arrangements and the difficulty in evaluating their impact makes a comprehensive guide of the type provided here all the more indispensable. These essays critically examine the functions, procedures, and performance of each of the major UN organs dealing with human rights, including the Security Council and the International Court of Justice as well as the more specialized bodies monitoring the implementation of human rights treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the considerable efforts at reforming the UN's human rights machinery, as illustrated most notably by the creation of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights. The book also looks at the relationship between the various bodies and the potential for major reforms and restructuring.

Exploring Betty A. Reardon’s Perspective on Peace Education

Author : Dale T. Snauwaert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030183874
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Betty A. Reardon’s Perspective on Peace Education written by Dale T. Snauwaert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardon’s peace education theory and intellectual legacy. The guiding question throughout the book is: How can her foundational work be used to advance the theory and practice of peace education? In an attempt to find answers, the contributing authors explore three general areas of inquiry: (1) Theoretical Foundations of Peace and Human Rights Education; (2) Feminism and the Gender Perspective as Pathways of Transformation Toward Peace and Justice; and (3) Peace Education Pedagogy and Practices. A contemplative commentary by Reardon herself rounds out the coverage

Human Rights

Author : İoanna Kuçuradi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903081
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by İoanna Kuçuradi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in International Context Philosophie im internationalen Kontext, In this collection of papers on human rights, loanna Kuçuradi conceptualizes human rights as ethical principles, as well as premises for legislation and for legal reasoning. She attempts, by doing so, to show the significance of clear concepts for the protection of human rights in practice. Taking this conception of human rights as her point of departure, she also discusses the specificities of law, of the state and of politics that hold the most promise, under present-day conditions, for the protection of human rights and the prevention of their violation.

Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy

Author : Kelly-Kate Pease
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526109425
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Human rights and humanitarian diplomacy written by Kelly-Kate Pease and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights diplomacy provides an up to date and accessible overview of the field, and serves as a practical guide to those seeking to engage in human rights work. Kelly-Kate Pease uses clear language and practical examples to teach readers the difficult skill of systematically looking at human rights and humanitarian negotiations. After a brief overview of human rights and what is meant by diplomacy, Pease argues that while human rights are internationally recognized, important disagreements exist on definition, priority and implementation. With the help of Human rights diplomacy, these differences can be bridged, and a new generation of human rights professionals will build better relationships.