The Community Of Rights The Rights Of Community

Author : Alan Gewirth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226288819
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community of Rights written by Alan Gewirth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community of Rights provides a detailed explication of the fundamental rights of agency as derived from a single rationally justified principle of morality and develops the contents of economic and social rights as a basic part of human rights. A critical alternative to both "liberal" and "communitarian" views, this authoritative work will command the attention of anyone engaged in the debate over social and economic justice.

Author : Richard Pierre Claude
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812213966
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in the World Community written by Richard Pierre Claude and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less Than a Roar

Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551643687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Community of Rights, the Rights of Community written by Daniel Fischlin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines community and human rights in a realistic way, by talking with those most affected.

Author : Oche Onazi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654704
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights from Community written by Oche Onazi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty, exclusion and lack of participation are symptomatic of state and market-based approaches to human rights. Oche Onazi uses Nigeria as a case study to show how the idea of community is a better alternative, capable of inspiring the poor and the vul

Author : Thomas Linzey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629632292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We the People written by Thomas Linzey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We the People offers powerful portraits of communities across the United States that have faced threats from environmentally destructive corporate projects and responded by successfully banning those projects at a local level. We hear the inspiring voices of ordinary citizens and activists practicing a cutting-edge form of organizing developed by the nonprofit law firm, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Their methodology is an answer for the frustrations of untold numbers of activists who have been defeated time and again by corporate political power and legal entitlement. Instead of fighting against what we don't want, this book can teach us to create from the ground up what we do want, basing our vision in local control and law. By refusing to cooperate with the unjust laws that favor corporate profit over local sustainability, communities can show the way forward, driving their rights into state constitutions and, eventually, into the federal Constitution. In communities from New Hampshire to Oregon, new forms of local organizing have sprung up to fight fracking, mining, dumping of toxic waste, and industrial agriculture, among other environmental assaults. These communities have recognized that the law has "legalized" the damaging actions of corporations, while providing no recourse against harm, and they have therefore decided to create a new system of law that makes local control and sustainability legal. Starting small, this process has spread from rural Pennsylvania to larger cities and towns, and has resulted in the creation of state networks seeking to amend state constitutions. This work is about finishing the American Revolution by giving up the illusion of democracy and forging a system of true self-governance. In addition, this is about recognizing in law, for the first time in history, that nature possesses legally enforceable rights of its own.

Author : Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847674336
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Commonwealth Africa written by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Kathryn R. Libal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319082108
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights-Based Community Practice in the United States written by Kathryn R. Libal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief. With specific chapters spotlighting the rights to health care, nutritious food, and adequate and affordable housing, the book describes in depth the role of community practice in securing rights for underserved and vulnerable groups and models key aspects of rights-based work such as empowerment, participation, and collaboration. Case examples relate local struggles to larger regional and statewide campaigns, illustrating ways the book's framework can inform policymakers and improve social structures in the larger community. This rights-based perspective contrasts sharply with the deficits-based approach commonly employed in community social work, and has the potential to inspire new strategies for addressing systemic social inequality. Features of Human Rights-Based Community Practice in the United States: A conceptual basis for a rights-based approach to community practice. Detailed analysis of legal and social barriers to health care, housing, and food. Examples of effective and emerging rights-based community interventions. Methods for assessing the state of human rights at the community level. Documents, discussion questions, resource lists, and other valuable tools.

Author : Jim Ife
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139482378
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights from Below written by Jim Ife and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights can be better realised when community development principles are applied. The book offers a long overdue assessment of how human rights and community development are invariably interconnected. It highlights how critical it is to understand the two as a basis for thinking about and taking action to address the serious challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. Written both for students and for community development and human rights workers, Human Rights from Below brings together the important fields of human rights and community development, to enrich our thinking of both.

Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671885243
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit Of Community written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-05-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how Americans need to develop or restore a sense of community in order to reconstruct society.

Author : Dwight Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847317782
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community and Collective Rights written by Dwight Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an argument for the existence of moral rights held by groups and a resulting account of how to reconcile group rights with individual rights and with the rights of other groups. Throughout, the author shows applications to actual legal and political controversies, thus tying the normative theory to actual legal practice. The author presents collective moral rights as an underlying normative explanation for various legal norms protecting group rights in domestic and international legal contexts. Examples at issue include rights held by indigenous peoples, by trade unions, and by religious and cultural minority groups. The account also bears on contemporary discussions of multiculturalism and recognition, on debates about reasonable accommodation of minority communities, and on claims for third generation human rights. The book will thus be relevant both to theorists and to legal and human rights practitioners interested in related areas.