The Local Relevance Of Human Rights
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The Local Relevance Of Human Rights
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Author : Koen De Feyter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-08
The Local Relevance Of Human Rights written by Koen De Feyter 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 2011-09-08 with Political Science categories.
Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local relevance of human rights increases? Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international documents have reaffirmed human rights as global norms. This book examines what factors determine whether appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level are successful, and whether the UDHR adequately responds to threats as currently defined by relevant groups or whether a revision of some of the ideas included in the UDHR is needed in order to increase its contemporary relevance.
The Local Relevance Of Human Rights
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Local Relevance Of Human Rights written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Globalization categories.
"Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local relevance of human rights increases? Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international documents have reaffirmed human rights as global norms. This book examines what factors determine whether appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level are successful, and whether the UDHR adequately responds to threats as currently defined by relevant groups or whether a revision of some of the ideas included in the UDHR is needed in order to increase its contemporary relevance"--
The Local Relevance Of Human Rights A Methodological Approach
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Author : Gaby Oré Aguilar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Local Relevance Of Human Rights A Methodological Approach written by Gaby Oré Aguilar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Globalization categories.
Human Rights At The Crossroads
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Author : Mark Goodale
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2013-01-10
Human Rights At The Crossroads written by Mark Goodale and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with Political Science categories.
Human Rights at the Crossroads brings together preeminent and emerging voices within human rights studies to think creatively about problems beyond their own disciplines, and to critically respond to what appear to be intractable problems within human rights theory and practice. It provides an integrative and interdisciplinary answer to the existing academic status quo, with broad implications for future theory and practice in all fields dealing with the problems of human rights theory and practice.
Human Rights In Thick And Thin Societies
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Author : Seth D. Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-16
Human Rights In Thick And Thin Societies written by Seth D. Kaplan 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 2018-08-16 with Law categories.
Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.
Human Rights Matters
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Author : Julie Mertus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Human Rights Matters written by Julie Mertus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.
Lawyers Beyond Borders
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Author : Maria Armoudian
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Lawyers Beyond Borders written by Maria Armoudian and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with Law categories.
Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems’ structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles—political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical—a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
The Human Rights State
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Author : Benjamin Gregg
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-03-08
The Human Rights State written by Benjamin Gregg and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Political Science categories.
The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclusion: all people, regardless of citizenship status or territorial location, would everywhere be recognized as bearers of human rights. In practice, human rights are afforded, if at all, then only to citizens of those few states that sometimes regard human rights as moral necessities of domestic commitments—or for states that find that stance politically expedient for the moment. This discouraging reality in the first decades of the twenty-first century prompts the question: What political arrangement might better conduce the local embrace and enduring practice of human rights? In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gregg challenges the conviction that the nation state can only have a zero-sum relationship with human rights: national sovereignty is possible or human rights are possible, but not both, not in the same place, at the same time. He argues that the human rights project would be more effective if established and enforced at local levels as locally valid norms, and from there encouraged to expand outward toward overlaps with other locally established and enforced conceptions of human rights grown in their own local soils. Proposing a metaphorical human rights state that operates within or alongside a nation state, Gregg describes networks of activists that encourage local political and legal systems to generate domestic obligations to enforce human rights. Geographic boundaries and national sovereignties would remain intact but diminished to the extent necessary to extend human rights to all persons, without reservation, across national borders, by rendering human rights an integral aspect of the nation state's constitution.
Human Rights
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Author : Mark Goodale
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-10-20
Human Rights written by Mark Goodale and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-20 with Social Science categories.
This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights
Natural Resources And Human Rights
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Author : Jérémie Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018-10-22
Natural Resources And Human Rights written by Jérémie Gilbert and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with Law categories.
The management of natural resources is directly related to livelihoods for local communities, but is also intimately linked to broader national and regional economic development, as well as to political stability, peace and security. Natural resources and their effective management are necessary for securing the realisation of human rights. While there is some analysis regarding the emergence of specific relevant areas of human rights, such as the right to water, the right to food, or public participation, there is no systematic and comprehensive study on the potential role that human rights law can play in the management of natural resources. This book provides an in-depth analysis of these developments and how these could contribute to a more comprehensive human rights-based approach to the management of natural resources. In doing so, the author proposes a systematic analysis of the different norms, procedures, and approaches developed under human rights law which are relevant to the management of natural resources. As such, the text offers a human rights-based approach to the development of a legal framework for natural resource management, an area which is currently dominated by investment law and treaties concerning the use and exploitation of natural resources by States and private actors.