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ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Human Rights Tribune
Author: Human Rights
Author: Janusz SymonidesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351771515
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This title was first published in 2003. The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a conclusion with the publication of this volume. "Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement" takes an institutional approach to the international protection of human rights, examining first the United Nations system, which may be seen as universal, and then analysing regional systems of protection. A useful source of information on the protection of human rights, the volume can also be employed as a practical guide to the use of existing procedures in the defence of human rights.
Human Rights and World Order
Author: Abdul Aziz SaidPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412825702
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This anthology is an exciting and vibrant contribution to the ongoing debate about international human rights. Drawn largely from materials published in the Fifteenth Anniversary issue of "Society "magazine, but incorporating outside essays as well, the editor has assembled a collection of articles written by noted scholars and policymakers. The articles approach the theme of human rights from a variety of perspectives, including the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations, children's rights, media coverage of human rights conflicts, and the interplay between human rights and world resources. Specific essays focus on Soviet Jewish emigration, foreign nationals and American law, and terrorism. General pieces discuss the nature and prospects of human rights in a changing international context. "Contributors: "Elise Boulding, Adda B. Bozeman, Tom J. Farer, A. Belden Fields, Irving Louis Horowitz, James Frederick Green, Chalmers Johnson, Henry A. Kissinger, William Korey, Diane Edwards LaVoy, A. Glenn Mower, Jr., John Crothers Pollock, Alejandro Portes, Marcus G. Raskin, David Riesman, James Lee Robinson, Jr., Abdul Aziz Said, Harry M. Scoble, Laurie S. Wiseberg.
Evidence for Hope
Author: Kathryn SikkinkPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691192715
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.
Protecting the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights
Author: Bychawska-Siniarska, DominikaPublisher: Council of Europe
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
European Convention on Human Rights – Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. In the context of an effective democracy and respect for human rights mentioned in the Preamble to the European Convention on Human Rights, freedom of expression is not only important in its own right, but it also plays a central part in the protection of other rights under the Convention. Without a broad guarantee of the right to freedom of expression protected by independent and impartial courts, there is no free country, there is no democracy. This general proposition is undeniable. This handbook is a practical tool for legal professionals from Council of Europe member states who wish to strengthen their skills in applying the European Convention on Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in their daily work.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Author: Edward H. LawsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781560323624
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Preface to the first edition
Women's Human Rights
Author: Niamh ReillyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745654940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia
Author: Jon PicciniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847277X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights
Author: Christopher N. J. RobertsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107014638
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights.
The Human Right to Dominate
Author: Nicola PeruginiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199365032
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as its main case study, The Human Right to Dominate describes the establishment of settler NGOs that appropriate human rights to dispossess indigenous Palestinians and military think-tanks that rationalize lethal violence by invoking human rights. The book underscores the increasing convergences between human rights NGOs, security agencies, settler organizations, and extreme right nationalists, showing how political actors of different stripes champion the dissemination of human rights and mirror each other's political strategies. Indeed, Perugini and Gordon demonstrate the multifaceted role that this discourse is currently playing in the international arena: on the one hand, human rights have become the lingua franca of global moral speak, while on the other, they have become reconstrued as a tool for enhancing domination.