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Author : Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9024736870
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Human Rights written by Cecilia Medina Quiroga and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters.
Author : Cecilia Medina
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004478493
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Human Rights written by Cecilia Medina and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Blouin-Genest
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319917706
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
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.
Author : Michael Sfard
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250122708
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Wall and the Gate written by Michael Sfard and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his olive groves by the construction of Israel’s controversial separation wall, asked Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to petition the courts to allow a gate to be built in the wall. While the gate would provide immediate relief for the farmer, would it not also confer legitimacy on the wall and on the court that deems it legal? The defense of human rights is often marked by such ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights in the country’s High Court―that is, in the court of the abuser. [This book] chronicles this struggle―a story that has never before been fully told― and in the process engages the core principles of human rights legal ethics. [The author] recounts the unfolding of key cases and issues, ranging from confiscation of land, deportations, the creation of settlements, punitive home demolitions, torture, and targeted killings―all actions considered violations of international law. In the process, he lays bare the reality of the occupation and the lives of the people who must contend with that reality. He also exposes the surreal legal structures that have been erected to put a stamp of lawfulness on an extensive program of dispossession. Finally, he weighs the success of the legal effort, reaching conclusions that are no less paradoxical than the fight itself."--
Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 9781929223770
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and Conflict written by Julie Mertus and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.
Author : Frederick E. Drinker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our War for Human Rights written by Frederick E. Drinker and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Bricmont
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674888
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Humanitarian Imperialism written by Jean Bricmont and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary and self-serving, and their form more destructive, from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan to Iraq. Until the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the large parts of the left was often complicit in this ideology of intervention—discovering new “Hitlers” as the need arose, and denouncing antiwar arguments as appeasement on the model of Munich in 1938. Jean Bricmont’s Humanitarian Imperialism is both a historical account of this development and a powerful political and moral critique. It seeks to restore the critique of imperialism to its rightful place in the defense of human rights. It describes the leading role of the United States in initiating military and other interventions, but also on the obvious support given to it by European powers and NATO. It outlines an alternative approach to the question of human rights, based on the genuine recognition of the equal rights of people in poor and wealthy countries. Timely, topical, and rigorously argued, Jean Bricmont’s book establishes a firm basis for resistance to global war with no end in sight.
Author : Raymond F. Gregory
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442237236
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Civil Rights Act and the Battle to End Workplace Discrimination written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, Raymond F. Gregory evaluates our progress towards the full implementation of one of the law’s key provisions: Title VII, which prohibits discrimination in the workplace. Gregory looks at key litigation as the law has come to include discrimination based on more than just race, but on gender, age, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. From the segregationist policies of the past to lingering workplace oppression in the form of sexual harassment, age discrimination, and religious conflicts, the places we work have always been the scenes of some of our greatest civil rights battles. This study of the landmark cases and rulings, and debates surrounding workplace discrimination of all kinds sheds light on the cultural tensions we grapple with in America. Gregory also looks at the broader history of oppression suffered, recognized, and overcome, in the 50 years since this country passed its Civil Rights Act. In addition to a detailed history of the legal history of civil rights and America’s workplace discrimination, this book also outlines positive ways forward for our society as we continue to diversify and redefine what it means to be respectful of our fellow citizens’ most inalienable, protected, and sacred rights.
Author : Gary J. Bass
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279871
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Freedom's Battle written by Gary J. Bass and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly romantic and full of bizarre enthusiasms, these activists were pioneers of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about today’s human rights crises.
Author : Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Human Rights written by Cecilia Medina Quiroga and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781682631
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Human Rights and the Uses of History written by Samuel Moyn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling. Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed Last Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions—including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention
Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502628244
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Human Rights written by Tim Cooke and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout recorded history there have been reports of individuals or groups of people being treated unequally or unfairly for various reasons like the color of their skin or the people they love. Rights in the ancient world were much different than modern human rights. People were sometimes bought and traded like property. In the medieval world, this changed to where merchants and some women had special rights that common people did not have. Most recently, people in the United States have been fighting for equal rights for African Americans and people in the LGBTQ communities. This book explores human rights today and how human rights have developed over time. Full-color photographs and fact boxes provide additional insight into the subject matter and will spark readers interest in learning more about the fight for equality.
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
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.
Author : Antoine Prost
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032563
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book René Cassin and Human Rights written by Antoine Prost and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new interpretation of the history of human rights through the biography of a key player in the movement.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ned Richardson-Little
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424678
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Human Rights Dictatorship written by Ned Richardson-Little and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.
Author : Jennifer Curtis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246195
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Human Rights as War by Other Means written by Jennifer Curtis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality.
