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Author : Corinne A. A. Packer
Publisher : Intersentia nv
ISBN 13 : 9050952267
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Using Human Rights to Change Tradition written by Corinne A. A. Packer and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2002 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 Closing the Circle
Author : Upendra Baxi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107116406
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts written by Upendra Baxi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines contemporary perspectives on law through Twining's scholarly work and with a focus on ethical, global and theoretical contexts.
Author : Kamran Hashemi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900416555X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Religious Legal Traditions, International Human Rights Law and Muslim States written by Kamran Hashemi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exploration of aspects of the subject, Islam and Human Rights, which is the focus of considerable scholarship in recent years predominantly from Western scholars. Thus it is interesting and important to have the field addressed from a non -Western perspective and by an Iranian scholar. The study draws on Persian language literature that addresses both theological and legal dimensions of the theme. The work is also distinctive in that it tackles three areas that have been largely ignored in the literature. It undertakes a comparative study of the laws of several Muslim States with respect to religious freedom, minorities and the rights of the child. The study offers an optimistic vision of the fundamental compatibility of Islam and international human rights standards.
Author : Unesco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cultural Rights as Human Rights written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Conference report on the cultural factors of human rights - includes papers and records of discussions on the concept of cultural rights in developed countries and developing countries, and covers trends, the impact of tradition, education, mass media, economic development, etc. On cultural change, etc. Conference held in Paris 1968 jul 8 to 13.
Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815715633
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.
Author : John C. Mubangizi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780702199172
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa written by John C. Mubangizi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ
ISBN 13 : 9781932589245
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Traditions in Turmoil written by Mary Ann Glendon and published by Sapientia Press Ave Maria Univ. This book was released on 2006 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That ours is a time of intellectual, cultural, moral, and religious turmoil does not need to be argued. What does need to be argued, and what Glendon argues with force and freshness, is that our response to turmoil requires a greater honesty in coming to terms with tradition, and with traditions in conflict. That is little understood by many on both the political left and right. Quoting one of her favorite thinkers, theologian Bernard Lonergan, she urges us to be "big enough to be at home in the both and old and new; and painstaking enough to work out one at a time the transitions to be made." Working within the capacious structure of the Christian intellectual tradition, most reflectively and generously articulated in Catholic teaching, Glendon constructively engages alternative ways of thinking about what it means to be human and what is required to nurture a society worthy of human beings. As the reader will see, her work ranges far and wide, and it goes deep. There is hardly a subject she addresses that does not change the way we think about it. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. She teaches and writes on international human rights, comparative law; and constitutional law issues. She is the author of many books including Rights Talk, A Nation Under Lawyers, and most recently A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Author : Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Publisher : Pinter Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Islam and Human Rights written by Ann Elizabeth Mayer and published by Pinter Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting stereotypes about a supposedly monolithic Islam inherently incompatible with human rights, Mayer dissects the political motives behind the selective use of elements of the Islamic tradition by conservative groups opposed to democracy and human rights.
Author : David P. Forsythe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803220201
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and Diversity written by David P. Forsythe and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and study of human rights have increased significantly over time and have seen an intensified interest at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Much can be learned about the status of universal human rights by approaching the subject from regional perspectives. These diverse vantage points shed new light on the importance and complexity of the issues. ø David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon have brought together a collection of essays from top scholars in their fields. Each essay examines how a region, as defined by geography or culture, affects the standards and practice of human rights in a particular area. The issues discussed include human rights and child labor in South Asia, women?s rights in Muslim states, the prospects and challenges of human rights in the Middle East, the role of women and tradition in Africa, and accommodating diversity in Europe. The collection also includes essays commenting on the parameters and intersections of international human rights in relation to area studies.
Author : Hurst Hannum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417485
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Rescuing Human Rights written by Hurst Hannum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.
Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642409571
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the use and regulation of traditional drugs such as peyote, ayahuasca, coca leaf, cannabis, khat and Salvia divinorum. The uses of these substances can often be found at the intersection of diverse areas of life, including politics, medicine, shamanism, religion, aesthetics, knowledge transmission, socialization, and celebration. The collection analyzes how some of these psychoactive plants have been progressively incorporated and regulated in developed Western societies by both national legislation and by the United Nations Drug Conventions. It focuses mainly, but not only, on the debates in court cases around the world involving the claim of religious use and the legal definitions of “religion.” It further touches upon issues of human rights and cognitive liberty as they relate to the consumption of drugs. While this collection emphasizes certain uses of psychoactive substances in different cultures and historical periods, it is also useful for thinking about the consumption of drugs in general in contemporary societies. The cultural and informal controls discussed here represent alternatives to the current merely prohibitionist policies, which are linked to the spread of illicit and violent markets. By addressing the disputes involved in the regulation of traditional drug use, this volume reflects on notions such as origin, place, authenticity, and tradition, thereby relating drug policy to broader social science debates.
Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679430X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book On the Spirit of Rights written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.
Author : Surya P. Subedi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883625
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in Eastern Civilisations written by Surya P. Subedi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's first-hand experience as a UN Special Rapporteur, this thought-provoking and original book examines the values of Eastern civilisations and their contribution to the development of the UN Human Rights agenda. Rejecting the argument based on “Asian Values” that is often used to undermine the universality of human rights, the book argues that secularism, personal liberty and universalism are at the heart of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
Author : Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509918469
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book State Responsibility, Climate Change and Human Rights under International Law written by Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has witnessed an increasing focus on the relationship between climate change and human rights. Several international human rights bodies have expressed concern about the negative implications of climate change for the enjoyment of human rights, and the Paris Agreement is the first multilateral climate agreement to refer explicitly to states' human rights obligations in connection with climate change. Yet despite this, there are still significant gaps in our understanding of the role of international human rights law in enhancing accountability for climate action or inaction. As the Paris Agreement has shifted the focus of the climate change regime towards voluntary action, and the humanitarian impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt around the world, accountability for climate change has become an increasingly salient issue. This book offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the legal issues related to accountability for the human rights impact of climate change, drawing on the state responsibility regime. It explains when and where state action relating to climate change may amount to a violation of human rights, and evaluates various avenues of legal redress available to victims. The overall analysis offers a perceptive insight into the potential of innovative rights-based climate actions to shape climate and energy policies around the world.
Author : Gillian Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351952242
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Children's Rights and Traditional Values written by Gillian Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays by legal scholars from the United Kingdom, Eire, Israel and Palestine explores the extent to which the recognition of the concept of children’s rights is affected by adherence to religious, cultural and ethnic traditions. The aim is twofold: first, to illuminate the interface between internationally-agreed norms of conduct regarding children and national and cultural determination to preserve traditional approaches; and secondly, to reflect upon the conflicts within societies between different cultural and religious groups in their attempts to determine whether 'liberal/secular' or 'conservative/religious' norms predominate in attitudes to children’s upbringing. This is the first collection of papers covering and comparing the UK and Israeli/Palestinian jurisdictions. The particular blends of social, religious and cultural diversity in both regions, mingled with the political factors operating as well, render these jurisdictions of special interest as case-studies in the reception of 'western/liberal' norms and values. Moreover, Israel and Palestine, despite their manifestly different cultures as compared with Britain, have been influenced by the colonial legacy of the common law, rendering this particular east-west comparison of special interest.
Author : Charles Lawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000730077
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge written by Charles Lawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the management of genetic resources, this book offers a new assessment of the contemporary Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime. Debates about ABS have moved on. The initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have now shifted into a far more complex series of disputes and challenges about the ways ABS should be implemented and enforced. These now cover a wide range of issues, including: digital sequence information, the repatriation of resources, technology transfer, traditional knowledge and cultural expressions, open access to information and knowledge, naming conventions, farmers’ rights, new schemes for accessing pandemic viruses sharing DNA sequences, and so on. Drawing together perspectives from an interdisciplinary range of leading and emerging international scholars, this book offers a new approach to the ABS landscape; as it breaks from the standard regulatory analyses in order to explore alternative solutions to the intractable issues for the Access and Benefit Sharing of genetic resources. Addressing these modern legal debates from a perspective that will appeal to both ABS scholars and those with broader legal concerns in the areas of intellectual property, food, governance, Indigenous issues, and so on, this book will be a useful resource for scholars and students as well as those in government and in international institutions working in relevant areas.
Author : William C. G. Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521879701
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Adjudicating Climate Change written by William C. G. Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world. It can serve as a resource for those interested in the problem of climate change and in the role that courts are playing in climate regulation. The chapters analyze examples of cases in state, national, and international tribunals, as well as this litigation's broader significance.
