Human Rights On Common Grounds The Quest For Universality
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Human Rights On Common Grounds
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Human Rights On Common Grounds written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Law categories.
The universality of human rights has been extensively discussed since their inception, and most often in terms of contrasting viewpoints of universalism versus relativism. The present volume seeks to get beyond the polarization and to ask instead in which sense human rights are universal. The point of departure is that human rights must be universal in some sense, or they are nothing. It is meaningless to talk of human rights if they are not applicable to all humans, unconditionally. From each of their vantage points the authors explore the notion of universality in a joint effort to maintain the fundamental aspiration of the human rights documents without sidestepping the question. The authors come from such diverse fields as law, history, philosophy and anthropology, and between them they contribute in complementary ways to the never-ending quest for universality, correlating with a view of all humans being equal in dignity and rights. They are also keenly aware that the human rights project is unfinished and must always be forcefully argued for.
Human Rights On Common Grounds
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Release Date : 2001-11-05
Human Rights On Common Grounds written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-05 with Political Science categories.
9. Limits to universality: Questions from Asia, Hatla Thelle.
Human Rights In Global Perspective
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Author : Jon P. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Human Rights In Global Perspective written by Jon P. Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Political Science categories.
The West often pays lip service to universal notions of human rights. Do such agendas helpfully address the problems people face, or are they seen as the imposition of Western values? This volume looks at the rise of rights discussions & institutions from an anthropological perspective.
Legal Cultures And Human Rights
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04
Legal Cultures And Human Rights written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Law categories.
Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In the present volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While 'culture' is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global 'culture of human rights' is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures cannot trump it. The main point is that the culture of human rights is inclusive of all and must maintain a standard by which all peoples and cultures can measure their own performances. Further, and as demonstrated in the present volume from a range of disciplines such as law, literature, history and anthropology, culture is not a mental prison but a particular outlook upon the world, for ever changing in response to new experiences and insights.
International Law Human Rights And Public Opinion
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Author : Heping Dang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-16
International Law Human Rights And Public Opinion written by Heping Dang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Law categories.
This book explores situations in which public opinion presents itself as an obstacle to the protection and promotion of human rights. Taking an international law perspective, it primarily deals with two questions: first, whether international law requires States to take an independent stance on human rights issues; second, whether international law encourages States to inform and mobilise public opinion with regard to core human rights standards. The discussion is mainly organised within the framework of the UN system. The work is particularly relevant to situations in which public opinion appears as discriminatory attitudes based on race, gender, age, health, sexual orientation and other factors. It is also pertinent to circumstances in which public opinion is responsible for the existence of certain harmful customs and practices such as female genital mutilation and capital punishment. Noting that the death penalty is increasingly recognised as an infringement of human rights, this study further challenges States’ argument that capital punishment cannot be abolished because of public opinion. The book also discusses the role that education bears under international law in moulding favourable attitudes towards human rights. Finally, the book challenges States’ acceptance that public opinion cannot be confronted in this respect.
Europe And The Americas
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Author : Erik André Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-23
Europe And The Americas written by Erik André Andersen and has been published by Hotei Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with Law categories.
In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars offers new insight into topical human rights in Europe and the Americas, providing a basis for debating human rights values across the Atlantic.
Women And International Human Rights Law
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Author : Gayatri H. Patel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-06
Women And International Human Rights Law written by Gayatri H. Patel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Law categories.
This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations. Since its existence, there has yet to be a complete and comprehensive book solely dedicated to exploring the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Women and International Human Rights Law provides a much-needed insight to what the process is, how it operates in practice, and whether it meets its fundamental aim of promoting the universality of all human rights. The book addresses the topics with regard to international human rights law and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students interested in the monitoring and implementation of international human rights law at the United Nations. In addition, it will form supplementary reading for those students studying international human rights law on undergraduate programmes and will also appeal to academics and students with interests in political sciences and international relations.
Fair Balance
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Author : Jonas Christoffersen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009
Fair Balance written by Jonas Christoffersen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
In one of the most important publications on the European Convention and Court of Human Rights in recent years, a wide range of fundamental practical and theoretical problems of crucial importance are addressed in an original and critical way bringing a fresh, coherent and innovative order into well-known battle zones. The analysis revolves around the Courta (TM)s fair balance-test and comprises in-depth analyses of e.g. methods of interpretation, proportionality, the least onerous means-test, the notion of absolute rights, subsidiarity, formal and substantive principles, evidentiary standards, proceduralisation of substantive rights etc. The author coins the term of a oeprimaritya in order to clarify the obligation of the Contracting Parties to implement the Convention in domestic law.
Revisiting The Origins Of Human Rights
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Author : Pamela Slotte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-11
Revisiting The Origins Of Human Rights written by Pamela Slotte and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-11 with Law categories.
Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
Can Asean Take Human Rights Seriously
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Author : Alison Duxbury
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Can Asean Take Human Rights Seriously written by Alison Duxbury and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Law categories.
Critically examines ASEAN's human rights system in the context of Southeast Asian political-legal developments and the global human rights discourse