Human Rights Horizons

Author : Richard A. Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135959714
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Horizons written by Richard A. Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Rights Horizons, one of the world's foremost authorities on human rights and international relations maps out the way to a more just and human global society. Borders are being erased; democracy and capitalism are spreading. The world is rapidly changing, and these changes are opening the door for the promotion of human rights to become and integral part of worldwide politics and law.In his provocative new book, Falk discusses the borderline between the promotion of human rights and the promotion of interventionist and coercive diplomacy. Can the US and the UN find an acceptable balance between unnecessary, protracted violence (Somalia) and simply letting genocide spread (Rwanda)? While looking at specific cases, Falk also sheds important new light on non-Western attitudes toward human rights, the challenge of genocidal politics, the intersection of morality and global security, and the pursuit of international justice. Thoughtful and very accessibly written, Human Rights Horizons clearly presents a path to an original new humanitarian policy for the 21st century.

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135855420
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Achieving Human Rights written by Richard Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses similar questions as Falk's earlier Human Rights Horizons, extending the exploration of human rights discourse and practice to focus on matters of post-9/11 security issues, developments in international criminal law, the role of citizenship and democracy, and approaches from the humanities.

Author : University of Colombo. Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789558698167
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in Human Rights written by University of Colombo. Centre for the Study of Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve J. Stern
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299299732
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Rights Paradox written by Steve J. Stern and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights are paradoxical. Advocates across the world invoke the idea that such rights belong to all people, no matter who or where they are. But since humans can only realize their rights in particular places, human rights are both always and never universal. The Human Rights Paradox is the first book to fully embrace this contradiction and reframe human rights as history, contemporary social advocacy, and future prospect. In case studies that span Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and the United States, contributors carefully illuminate how social actors create the imperative of human rights through relationships whose entanglements of the global and the local are so profound that one cannot exist apart from the other. These chapters provocatively analyze emerging twenty-first-century horizons of human rights—on one hand, the simultaneous promise and peril of global rights activism through social media, and on the other, the force of intergenerational rights linked to environmental concerns that are both local and global. Taken together, they demonstrate how local struggles and realities transform classic human rights concepts, including “victim,” “truth,” and “justice.” Edited by Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus, The Human Rights Paradox enables us to consider the consequences—for history, social analysis, politics, and advocacy—of understanding that human rights belong both to “humanity” as abstraction as well as to specific people rooted in particular locales.

Author : Ineta Ziemele
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407423
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law written by Ineta Ziemele and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues in this volume have been high on international agendas during recent years: human rights and the fight against terrorism; the human rights of women; state responsibility to ensure adequate standards of living; and the human rights accountability of transnational corporations.

Author : Taslim Olawale Elias
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789028600393
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Horizons in International Law written by Taslim Olawale Elias and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1979 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ineta Ziemele
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004143647
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Horizons of Human Rights Law written by Ineta Ziemele and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues in this volume have been high on international agendas during recent years: human rights and the fight against terrorism; the human rights of women; state responsibility to ensure adequate standards of living; and the human rights accountability of transnational corporations.

Author : Pearl Eliadis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773591842
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Out on Human Rights written by Pearl Eliadis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community. Closer to home, however, the human rights system in Canada - particularly its public institutions such as commissions and tribunals - has been the object of sustained debate and vehement criticism, based largely on widespread myths about how it works. In Speaking Out on Human Rights, Pearl Eliadis explodes these myths, analysing the pervasive distortions and errors on which they depend. Canada's human rights system, a unique legal tradition operating within a powerful modern constitution, is a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the practical application of our national commitment to tolerance and inclusion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Canada's leading human rights experts and extensive original research, Eliadis explores the evolution of commissions and tribunals as vehicles of public policy and considers their mandate to mediate rights conflicts in such contested areas as hate speech, religious freedoms, and sexuality. She provides a frank assessment of how Canada's human rights system functions and argues that misplaced critiques have prevented urgent and necessary discussions about the reforms that are needed to improve fairness and equality before the law and to ensure institutional independence, impartiality, and competence. Speaking Out on Human Rights shows how our human rights system plays a unique and important role in the rights revolution both in Canada and internationally and offers promising avenues for its future development.

Author : F. Al-Daraweesh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137471085
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Education Beyond Universalism and Relativism written by F. Al-Daraweesh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the preservation of the social, political, and cultural autonomies of peoples within diverse cultural contexts, Al-Daraweesh and Snauwaert propose a relational epistemology for human rights education.

Author : Rikke Frank Jorgensen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039052
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the Age of Platforms written by Rikke Frank Jorgensen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society. The contributors consider the “datafication” of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation. Contributors Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnès Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan Zuckerman Open access edition published with generous support from Knowledge Unlatched and the Danish Council for Independent Research.