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Human Rights Horizons

Author : Richard A. Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959714
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Horizons written by Richard A. Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Rights Horizons, one of the world's foremost authorities on human rights and international relations maps out the way to a more just and human global society. Borders are being erased; democracy and capitalism are spreading. The world is rapidly changing, and these changes are opening the door for the promotion of human rights to become and integral part of worldwide politics and law.In his provocative new book, Falk discusses the borderline between the promotion of human rights and the promotion of interventionist and coercive diplomacy. Can the US and the UN find an acceptable balance between unnecessary, protracted violence (Somalia) and simply letting genocide spread (Rwanda)? While looking at specific cases, Falk also sheds important new light on non-Western attitudes toward human rights, the challenge of genocidal politics, the intersection of morality and global security, and the pursuit of international justice. Thoughtful and very accessibly written, Human Rights Horizons clearly presents a path to an original new humanitarian policy for the 21st century.

The Human Rights Paradox

Author : Steve J. Stern
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299299732
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Human Rights Paradox written by Steve J. Stern and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal. The Human Rights Paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history, contemporary social advocacy, and future prospect. In case studies that span Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States, contributors carefully illuminate how social actors create the imperative of human rights through relationships whose entanglements of the global and the local are so profound that one cannot exist apart from the other. These chapters provocatively analyze emerging twenty-first-century horizons of human rights—on one hand, the simultaneous promise and peril of global rights activism through social media, and on the other, the force of intergenerational rights linked to environmental concerns that are both local and global. Taken together, they demonstrate how local struggles and realities transform classic human rights concepts, including “victim,” “truth,” and “justice.” Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus, The Human Rights Paradox enables us to consider the consequences—for history, social analysis, politics, and advocacy—of understanding that human rights belong both to “humanity” as abstraction as well as to specific people rooted in particular locales.

Achieving Human Rights

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135855420
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Achieving Human Rights written by Richard Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the United States in the world order to the role of individual citizens of a globalized world, Falk stresses the moral urgency of achieving human rights. In elegant simplicity, this book places the priority of such an ethos in the personal decisions we make in our human interactions, not just the activities of government institutions and non-governmental organizations. Falk masterly weaves together such topics as the Iraq War, U.S. human rights practices and abuses, humanitarian intervention, the rule of law, responses to terrorism, genocide in Bosnia, the Pinochet trial, the Holocaust, and information technology to create a moral tapestry of world order with human rights at the center.

New Horizons in Human Rights

Author : University of Colombo. Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789558698167
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in Human Rights written by University of Colombo. Centre for the Study of Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law

Author : Ineta Ziemele
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407423
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law written by Ineta Ziemele and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues in this volume have been high on international agendas during recent years: human rights and the fight against terrorism; the human rights of women; state responsibility to ensure adequate standards of living; and the human rights accountability of transnational corporations.

New Horizons in International Law

Author : Taslim Olawale Elias
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789028600393
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis New Horizons in International Law by : Taslim Olawale Elias

Download or read book New Horizons in International Law written by Taslim Olawale Elias and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law

Author : Ineta Ziemele
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004143647
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law written by Ineta Ziemele and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues in this volume have been high on international agendas during recent years: human rights and the fight against terrorism; the human rights of women; state responsibility to ensure adequate standards of living; and the human rights accountability of transnational corporations.

Speaking Out on Human Rights

Author : Pearl Eliadis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773591842
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Speaking Out on Human Rights written by Pearl Eliadis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely on widespread myths about how it works. In Speaking Out on Human Rights, Pearl Eliadis explodes these myths, analysing the pervasive distortions and errors on which they depend. Canada's human rights system, a unique legal tradition operating within a powerful modern constitution, is a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the practical application of our national commitment to tolerance and inclusion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Canada's leading human rights experts and extensive original research, Eliadis explores the evolution of commissions and tribunals as vehicles of public policy and considers their mandate to mediate rights conflicts in such contested areas as hate speech, religious freedoms, and sexuality. She provides a frank assessment of how Canada's human rights system functions and argues that misplaced critiques have prevented urgent and necessary discussions about the reforms that are needed to improve fairness and equality before the law and to ensure institutional independence, impartiality, and competence. Speaking Out on Human Rights shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development.

Human Rights Education Beyond Universalism and Relativism

Author : F. Al-Daraweesh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137471085
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Education Beyond Universalism and Relativism written by F. Al-Daraweesh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the preservation of the social, political, and cultural autonomies of peoples within diverse cultural contexts, Al-Daraweesh and Snauwaert propose a relational epistemology for human rights education.

The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004516786
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses, for the first time ever, on the protection roles of human rights NGOs since the establishment of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also looks at how NGOs are responding to future challenges such as artificial Intelligence, robots in armed conflicts, digital threats, and the protection of human rights in outer space. Written by leading NGO human rights practitioners from different parts of the world, it sheds light on the multiple roles of the leading pillar of the global human rights movement, the Non-Governmental Organizations.

The Last Utopia

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

The United Nations and Human Rights

Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134008023
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations and Human Rights written by Julie Mertus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Mertus’ highly acclaimed text continues to be the only completely up-to-date comprehensive yet succinct guide to the United Nations human rights system. Today, virtually all UN bodies and specialized agencies are undertaking efforts to incorporate the promotion or protection of human rights into their programs and activities. The United Nations and Human Rights examines these recent initiatives within the broader context of human rights practice, including the promotion of individual rights, management of international conflict and the advancement of agendas of social movements. The fully revised and updated second edition not only provides a complete guide to the development, structure and procedures within the UN human rights system, but also reflects the vital changes that have occurred within the UN system, devoting considerable attention to expanding the range of issues discussed, including: new developments in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights the current controversy surrounding the new Human Rights Council expanded treatment of economic and social rights. A superb addition to any human rights syllabus, this book maintains its position as essential reading for students and practitioners of human rights, international relations and international law.

Ethics of Human Rights

Author : A. Reis Monteiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319035665
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ethics of Human Rights written by A. Reis Monteiro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons. Its purpose, scope and rationale are reflected in the three-part structure of the manuscript. Part I has a broad introductory historical, theoretical and legal character. Part II submits that an Ethics of Human Rights is best understood as an Ethics of Recognition of human worth, dignity and rights. Moreover, it is argued that human worth consists in the perfectibility of the human species, rooted in its semiotic nature, to be accomplished through the perfecting of human beings, for which the right to education is key. In Part III, the main legal and political outcomes of the Human Rights Revolution are described and answers to the most lasting and common criticisms of human rights are provided. To conclude, the human stature of the Big Five drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is profiled and the priority that should be recognized to human rights education is highlighted. Some appendices supplement the manuscript. While making a case for the high value and liberating power of the idea and ideal of human rights, objections, controversies and uncertainties are not at all overlooked and emerging issues are explored. The diversity of content of this volume meets many needs of the typical syllabus for a human rights course.

Human Rights as Battlefields

Author : Gabriel Blouin-Genest
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319917706
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights as Battlefields written by Gabriel Blouin-Genest and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions. This translation, in turn, contributes to modifying the scope and understanding of human rights. Ultimately, these battlefields express the legitimacy encounter of different versions of human rights in contemporary political practices. The volume thus challenges both the tendency to minimize the changing nature of human rights as well as the struggles emerging from the use of human rights discourses as a legitimization tool. By shifting the focus on what stakeholders do instead of solely on the origin, nature or foundations of human rights, the authors reveal that human rights are not static objects: they are constantly transformed and, as such, affect the horizon of universal rights.

Human Rights in the Age of Platforms

Author : Rikke Frank Jorgensen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039052
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the Age of Platforms written by Rikke Frank Jorgensen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society. The contributors consider the “datafication” of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation. Contributors Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnès Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan Zuckerman Open access edition published with generous support from Knowledge Unlatched and the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Human Rights in the World Community

Author : Richard Pierre Claude
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812219487
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the World Community written by Richard Pierre Claude and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique textbook seeks to promote students' critical and analytical skills and to provide a teacher-friendly resource featuring: in-depth scholarly introductions to each chapter, multiple questions for discussion and reflection, and an extensive bibliography and annotated filmography.