Author: Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Human Rights Bulletin
Author: Human Rights and African Airwaves
Author: Harri EnglundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi's impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty.
Lawasia Human Rights Bulletin
Author: Human Rights Information Bulletin
Author: The Department of State Bulletin
Author: Taiwan and International Human Rights
Author: Jerome A. CohenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811303509
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book tells a story of Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian regime to a democratic system where human rights are protected as required by international human rights treaties. There were difficult times for human rights protection during the martial law era; however, there has also been remarkable transformation progress in human rights protection thereafter. The book reflects the transformation in Taiwan and elaborates whether or not it is facilitated or hampered by its Confucian tradition. There are a number of institutional arrangements, including the Constitutional Court, the Control Yuan, and the yet-to-be-created National Human Rights Commission, which could play or have already played certain key roles in human rights protections. Taiwan’s voluntarily acceptance of human rights treaties through its implementation legislation and through the Constitutional Court’s introduction of such treaties into its constitutional interpretation are also fully expounded in the book. Taiwan’s NGOs are very active and have played critical roles in enhancing human rights practices. In the areas of civil and political rights, difficult human rights issues concerning the death penalty remain unresolved. But regarding the rights and freedoms in the spheres of personal liberty, expression, privacy, and fair trial (including lay participation in criminal trials), there are in-depth discussions on the respective developments in Taiwan that readers will find interesting. In the areas of economic, social, and cultural rights, the focuses of the book are on the achievements as well as the problems in the realization of the rights to health, a clean environment, adequate housing, and food. The protections of vulnerable groups, including indigenous people, women, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) individuals, the disabled, and foreigners in Taiwan, are also the areas where Taiwan has made recognizable achievements, but still encounters problems. The comprehensive coverage of this book should be able to give readers a well-rounded picture of Taiwan’s human rights performance. Readers will find appealing the story of the effort to achieve high standards of human rights protection in a jurisdiction barred from joining international human rights conventions. This book won the American Society of International Law 2021 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law.
Human Rights
Author: Janusz SymonidesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429676662
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
First published in 1998, this first volume of The Manual on Human Rights Education for Universities has been prepared in the hope that it will serve as a teaching aid for institutions of higher education, as well as for UNESCO Chairs, and focuses on new dimensions and challenges. UNESCO’s long experience in this field goes back to 1951, when the first guide for teachers on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was published. This formed part of UNESCO’s efforts to create a comprehensive system of human rights education, embracing formal and non-formal education. Issues explored include peace, the environment, education, discrimination and extreme poverty.
Human Rights and Democracy
Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth OfficePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780101801720
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This report is a comprehensive look at the human rights work of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) around the world in 2010. It highlights the UK's human rights concerns in key countries and is a further concrete demonstration of the Foreign Secretary's commitment to strengthening the FCO's work on human rights at home and overseas. The report is more comprehensive than previous years, is being hosted online to make it much more accessible to the public and the website will include updates every three months to highlight key human rights events and actions that take place in each of the featured countries of concern. The update for the first three months of 2011 will be published online simultaneously. The present report covers topics such as: promoting British values; human rights in safeguarding Britain's national security; human rights in promoting Britain's prosperity; human rights for British Nationals overseas; working through a rules-based international system; promoting human rights in the overseas territories. It also gives details by country of those countries where human rights is of particular concern
NGO's and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author: W. KoreyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230108164
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 50 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt, its principal architect, predicted that a 'curious grapevine' would carry its message behind barbed wire and stone walls. This book tells the extraordinary story of how NGOs became the 'grapevine' she anticipated - sharpening our awareness about the violations of human rights, 'shaming' its most notorious abusers and creating the international mechanisms to bring about implementation of the Declaration. Korey traces how NGO's laid the groundwork for the destruction of the Soviet empire, as well as of the apartheid system in South Africa, and established the principle of accountability for crimes against humanity. The notion of human rights has progressed from being a marginal part of international relations a half century ago to stand today as a critical element in diplomatic discourse and this book shows that it is the NGOs that have placed human rights at the centre of humankind's present and future agenda.
The Concept and Present Status of the International Protection of Human Rights
Author: Bertie G. RamcharanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478310
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description