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Human Rights in a Pluralist World

Author : J. Berting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in a Pluralist World written by J. Berting and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on two international conferences on human rights (sponsored, in part, by UNESCO): the first was held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, Sept. 1987; the second in Middleburg, the Netherlands, June 1988. The major objective of the conferences was to undertake a systematic analysis of the title topic in order to increase understanding of the issues in different cultural, religious, and socioeconomic contexts. The 21 contributions are not indexed, nor is a coherent bibliography provided. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Human Rights in a Pluralist World

Author : Jan Berting
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313280770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in a Pluralist World written by Jan Berting and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO and the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands, this volume is edited from papers delivered at two international conferences on human rights as individual rights and as the rights of collectivities such as states, peoples, and minorities. Papers focus on human and collective rights in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the United States from a variety of social, political, religious, and moral perspectives.

Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World

Author : Grace Y. Kao
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589017609
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World written by Grace Y. Kao and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance—and even legitimacy—of domestic regimes. Yet questions remain that challenge their universal validity and theoretical bases. Some theorists are ”maximalist” in their insistence that human rights must be grounded religiously, while an opposing camp attempts to justify these rights in “minimalist” fashion without any necessary recourse to religion, metaphysics, or essentialism. In Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World, Grace Kao critically examines the strengths and weaknesses of these contending interpretations while also exploring the political liberalism of John Rawls and the Capability Approach as proposed by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum. By retrieving insights from a variety of approaches, Kao defends an account of human rights that straddles the minimalist–maximalist divide, one that links human rights to a conception of our common humanity and to the notion that ethical realism gives the most satisfying account of our commitment to the equal moral worth of all human beings.

Human Rights: Universality and Diversity

Author : Eva Brems
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004481958
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights: Universality and Diversity written by Eva Brems and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Human Rights

Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405183357
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Mark Goodale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights

The Power of Law in a Transnational World

Author : Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456156
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Law in a Transnational World written by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning? This important volume examines this question as well as how law is constituted and reconfigured through social processes that frame both its continuity and transformation over time. The volume highlights how power is deployed under conditions of legal pluralism, exploring its effects on livelihoods and on social institutions, including the state. Such an approach not only demonstrates how the state, through its various development programs and organizational structures, attempts to control territory and people, but also relates the mechanisms of state control to other legal modes of control and regulation at both local and supranational levels.

Human Rights

Author : Robert McCorquodale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777602
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights written by Robert McCorquodale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Theories of human rights are important, as they can be a means to challenging entrenched and oppressive power. These key essays take a philosophical approach to human rights, questioning dominant theories and offering different perspectives on their application.

The Role of the Nation-State in the 21st Century: Human Rights, International Organisations and Foreign Policy

Author : Castermans-Holleman
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004639802
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Role of the Nation-State in the 21st Century: Human Rights, International Organisations and Foreign Policy written by Castermans-Holleman and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, contributed by his friends, pays tribute to the work of Peter R. Baehr, whose impressive career spans some 40 years of activity devoted to the cause of human rights. Although human rights remains the leitmotiv of Professor Baehr's career, the themes explored in this collection - the role of the nation-state in the 21st century, international organisations and foreign policy - are a reflection of the versatility of his work and the range of his interests. This volume thus offers the reader a stimulating collection of essays by a wide range of international experts on both the theory and the practice of human rights within the context of the nation-state of the 21st century.

The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism in East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia)

Author : Hidetoshi Hashimoto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317450922
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Mechanism in East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia) written by Hidetoshi Hashimoto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional inter-governmental human rights organizations have been in operation for sometime in Europe, the Americas and Africa. These regional human rights mechanisms have proven to be useful and effective in comparison to the global human rights mechanisms available at the United Nations. The purpose of this study, first published in 2004, is to investigate the possibility of establishing a regional inter-governmental human rights mechanism in East Asia, with a focus on the contributions of nongovernmental organizations' (NGOs) to such a development.

Human Rights in the Maya Region

Author : Pedro Pitarch
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389053
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the Maya Region written by Pedro Pitarch and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence. In this volume, scholars and activists examine the role of human rights in the ways that states relate to their populations, analyze conceptualizations and appropriations of human rights by Mayans in specific localities, and explore the relationship between the individualist and “universal” tenets of Western-derived concepts of human rights and various Mayan cultural understandings and political subjectivities. The collection includes a reflection on the effects of truth-finding and documenting particular human rights abuses, a look at how Catholic social teaching validates the human rights claims advanced by indigenous members of a diocese in Chiapas, and several analyses of the limitations of human rights frameworks. A Mayan intellectual seeks to bring Mayan culture into dialogue with western feminist notions of women’s rights, while another contributor critiques the translation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights into Tzeltal, an indigenous language in Chiapas. Taken together, the essays reveal a broad array of rights-related practices and interpretations among the Mayan population, demonstrating that global-local-state interactions are complex and diverse even within a geographically limited area. So too are the goals of indigenous groups, which vary from social reconstruction and healing following years of violence to the creation of an indigenous autonomy that challenges the tenets of neoliberalism. Contributors: Robert M. Carmack, Stener Ekern, Christine Kovic, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Julián López García, Irma Otzoy, Pedro Pitarch, Álvaro Reyes, Victoria Sanford, Rachel Sieder, Shannon Speed, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, David Stoll, Richard Ashby Wilson

Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union

Author : Kirsten Shoraka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136954007
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union written by Kirsten Shoraka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the development and the role of human rights in the European Union, arguing that human rights have become an important component of the foreign policy of the European Union. This book analyses the EU's policy on minorities, as a particular example of human rights.

Human Rights in the World Community

Author : Richard Pierre Claude
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213966
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (139 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 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less Than a Roar

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Author : Asbjørn Eide
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433866
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Economic, Social and Cultural Rights written by Asbjørn Eide and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this text was a textbook on internationally recognized economic, social and cultural rights. While focusing on this category of rights, it also analyzed their relationships to other human rights, civil and political in particular. This revised edition updates the information.

Small Island States & International Law

Author : Carolin König
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000812057
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Small Island States & International Law written by Carolin König and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created? Will the state cease to exist? What would this mean for its population? Have international law and globalization progressed enough to protect the people thus affected, or does international law still depend on the territorial state when it comes to protecting entire populations? Exploring these issues, this book provides answers to these pressing questions. Focusing on small island states as actors in the international community, it evaluates the challenges that the state as a subject of international law faces in general from globalization and humanization, and what this means for small island states threatened by rising seas. Highlighting the experience of the indigenous peoples of small island states as collectives, and to the individuals living in these states, the book addresses fundamental questions of general state theory and international law, drawing on an extensive body of source material. As rising sea levels present an increasingly pressing threat to small island states, this book highlights the importance of international protection of the individual and the capacity of international organizations to act within existing international law. It identifies pressing problems where immediate action is required and argues that, in future, the responsibility for protecting individuals could shift to the international community, if a sinking island state can no longer protect its population on its own.

Human Rights And The Search For Community

Author : Rhoda E. Howard-hassmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973322
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights And The Search For Community written by Rhoda E. Howard-hassmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Rhoda E. Howard argues that communities can exist in modern Western societies if they protect the whole spectrum of individual human rights, not only civil and political but also economic rights.

A World of Water

Author : P. Boomgaard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254013
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A World of Water written by P. Boomgaard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing.

Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples

Author : Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642341535
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples written by Rodolfo Stavenhagen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last volume in a trilogy published on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico, includes eight essays on Peasants, Culture and Indigenous Peoples: Critical Issues; Basic Needs, Peasants and the Strategy for Rural Development (1976); Cultural Rights: a Social Science Perspective (1998); The Structure of Injustice: Poverty, Marginality, Exclusion and Human Rights (2000); What Kind of Yarn? From Color Line to Multicolored Hammock: Reflections on Racism and Public Policy (2001); The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2012); A Report on the Human Rights Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Asia (2007); Report on the Impact of Megaprojects on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2003); and Study Regarding the Best Practices to Implement the Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur (2007). These texts address human rights issues, especially those that arose when Stavenhagen was servinged as United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples.