Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author: Realizing the Right to Development
Author: United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This book is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. It contains a collection of analytical studies of various aspects of the right to development, which include the rule of law and good governance, aid, trade, debt, technology transfer, intellectual property, access to medicines and climate change in the context of an enabling environment at the local, regional and international levels. It also explores the issues of poverty, women and indigenous peoples within the theme of social justice and equity. The book considers the strides that have been made over the years in measuring progress in implementing the right to development and possible ways forward to make the right to development a reality for all in an increasingly fragile, interdependent and ever-changing world.
25th Anniversary of the United Nations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and MovementsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Eyewitness to a Genocide
Author: Michael BarnettPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801465125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda. In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide. Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.
25th Anniversary of the United Nations, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements...
Author: United States. Congress. House Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft
Author: Douglas JohnstonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195102802
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This collection of wide ranging case studies and theoretical pieces shows how religious or spiritual factors can play a helpful role in international relations. Written by a distinguished roster of scholars, this volume includes a foreword by Jimmy Carter and six maps.
The Future of Children’s Rights
Author: Michael FreemanPublisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9004271775
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This volume is in part intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are now a generation on from its formulation, and, as this varied collection of articles by leading thinkers in the field reflects, children's rights have come a long way. Yet the aim of this volume is not to look back, but to take stock and look forward. It explores subjects as diverse as socio-economic rights, corporal punishment, language and scientific progress as they relate to children and their rights, and offers new insights and new ideas. Edited by one of the most respected and leading scholars in the field, The Future of Children's Rights constitutes a stimulating and useful resource for academics and practitioners alike.
25th Anniversary of the United Nations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Organizations and MovementsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
United Nations Juridical Yearbook 2008
Author: United NationsPublisher: United Nations Publications
ISBN: 9789211336856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This yearbook contains documentary texts of treaties and other materials concerning the legal status and activities of the United Nations and related inter-governmental organizations. It also presents the judicial decisions on questions related to the Organization. A bibliography on jurisprudence is included.
The Belmont Report
Author: United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description