Human Rights Futures

Author : Stephen Hopgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193354
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Futures written by Stephen Hopgood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509520619
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Human Rights written by Alison Brysk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future for human rights? What changes are required to confront the regime’s weaknesses and emerging global challenges? In this cutting-edge analysis, Alison Brysk sets out a pragmatic reformist agenda for human rights in the twenty-first century. Tracing problems and solutions through contemporary case studies – the plight of refugees, declining democracies such as Mexico and Turkey, the expansion of women’s rights, new norms for indigenous peoples, and rights regression in the USA – she shows that the dynamic strength of human rights lies in their evolving political practice. This distinctive vision demands that we build upon the gains of the human rights regime to construct new pathways which address historic rights gaps, from citizenship to security, from environmental protection to resurgent nationalism, and to globalization itself. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience as a leading human rights scholar and activist, The Future of Human Rights offers a broad and authoritative guide to the big questions in global human rights governance today.

Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418139
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Economic and Social Rights written by Katharine G. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Author : Jernej Letnar Černič
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780684918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Business and Human Rights written by Jernej Letnar Černič and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents theoretical and practical considerations on whether it would be feasible to adopt an international treaty on business and human rights to address corporate human rights abuses.

Author : Richard Lang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527505146
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Human Rights in the UK written by Richard Lang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2016 the University of Brighton hosted a one day conference entitled “The Future of Human Rights in the UK”. Legal academics and practitioners from across the UK and Ireland attended to discuss the various topical issues that arise under the title of the conference. Papers were presented on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the role of the European Court of Human Rights, surrogacy and parental rights, union rights, social and economic rights and Brexit; to name but a few. This edited collection comprises a selection of the papers presented. It is a thought-provoking collection designed to make the reader ask themselves: what does the future of human rights in the UK look like?

Author : Stephen Hopgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110814845X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Futures written by Stephen Hopgood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one collected volume, mainstream and critical human rights scholars together examine the empirical and normative debates around the future of human rights. They ask what makes human rights effective, what strategies will enhance the chances of compliance, what blocks progress, and whether the hope for human rights is entirely misplaced in a rapidly transforming world. Human Rights Futures sees the world as at a crucial juncture. The project for globalizing rights will either continue to be embedded or will fall backward into a maelstrom of nationalist backlash, religious resurgence and faltering Western power. Each chapter talks directly to the others in an interactive dialogue, providing a theoretical and methodological framework for a clear research agenda for the next decade. Scholars, graduate students and practitioners of political science, history, sociology, law and development will find much to both challenge and provoke them in this innovative book.

Author : Philip Alston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190239492
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-finding written by Philip Alston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of fact-finding, including rigorous and critical analysis of the field of practice, as well as providing a range of accounts of what actually happens. It deepens the study and practice of human rights investigations, and fosters fact-finding as a discretely studied topic, while mapping crucial transformations in the field.

Author : Gerhard Bos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317351762
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Sustainability written by Gerhard Bos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities. States within the international arena hold each other responsible for doing just that and support or interfere where necessary. States are to protect these essential human vulnerabilities, even when this is not a matter of self-interest. This function of human rights is recognized in contexts of intervention, genocide, humanitarian aid and development. This book develops the idea of environmental obligations as long-term responsibilities in the context of human rights. It proposes that human rights require recognition that, in the face of unsustainable conduct, future human persons are exposed and vulnerable. It explores the obstacles for long-term responsibilities that human rights law provides at the level of international and national law and challenges the question of whether lifestyle restrictions are enforceable in view of liberties and levels of wellbeing typically seen as protected by human rights. The book will be of interest to postgraduates studying Human Rights, Sustainability, Law and Philosophy.

Author : Philip Alston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645744
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring written by Philip Alston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every state in the world has undertaken human rights obligations on the basis of UN treaties. Today's challenge is to enhance the effectiveness of procedures and institutions established to promote the accountability of governments. The six treaty bodies that monitor and evaluate state policies and practices play a vital role, but the whole system has been stretched almost to breaking point. It is under-funded, many governments fail to report or do so very late or superficially, there is a growing backlog of individual complaints, broad reservations have been lodged by many states, and the expertise of committee members has been questioned. This volume contains detailed analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of the system, written by leading participants in the work of the treaty bodies. Their recommendations provide a blueprint for far-reaching reform of a system of major importance for the future of international efforts to protect human rights.

Author : Upendra Baxi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019908789X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Human Rights written by Upendra Baxi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.