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Author : Hurst Hannum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108417485
Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.
Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9781909035003
Author : Hurst Hannum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108278574
The development of human rights norms is one of the most significant achievements in international relations and law since 1945, but the continuing influence of human rights is increasingly being questioned by authoritarian governments, nationalists, and pundits. Unfortunately, the proliferation of new rights, linking rights to other issues such as international crimes or the activities of business, and attempting to address every social problem from a human rights perspective risk undermining their credibility. Rescuing Human Rights calls for understanding 'human rights' as international human rights law and maintaining the distinctions between binding legal obligations on governments and broader issues of ethics, politics, and social change. Resolving complex social problems requires more than simplistic appeals to rights, and adopting a 'radically moderate' approach that recognizes both the potential and the limits of international human rights law, offers the best hope of preserving the principle that we all have rights, simply because we are human.
Author : Allen D. Hertzke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742547322
Given unprecedented insider access, author Allen D. Hertzke charts the rise of the new faith-based movement for global human rights and tells the compelling story of the personalities and forces, clashes and compromises, strategies and protests that shape it. In doing so, Hertzke shows that by raising issues_such as global religious persecution, Sudanese atrocities, North Korean gulags, and sex trafficking_the movement is impacting foreign policy around the world.
Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108417132
This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse.
Author : Susan Norris
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1475966245
Every two minutes, evil strips innocence from a child and sells her into slavery for sex. Not in a third-world country, but in the United States of America. Before you take another breath, the next victim will be tricked or taken from her family by a profit-hungry criminal. She could be a neighbor. A friend.Your sister. Your daughter. You. At fourteen, Hope Ellis is the all-American girl with a good lifeuntil the day she tries to help her mom with their cross-town move by supervising the movers. When they finish, one of the men returns to the house and rapes her. Held silent by his threats, darkness begins to engulf her. But the rape proves to be the least of Hopes troubles. In a gasping attempt at normalcy, she succumbs to the attention of a smooth-talking man on the subway. He promises acceptance. He declares his love. He lures her out from under the shelter of her suburban life. Hopes disappearance sets a community in motion. Shes one of their own. They determine to find Hope, whatever the cost, before shes lost forever. Will you?
Author : Stephen P. Kiernan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780312342241
In a groundbreaking investigation, Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life--pain free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends--and how the medical system continues to treat the dying with extreme interventions and little regard for their wishes.
Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674727509
Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
Author : Kentaro Toyama
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610395298
After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver. Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. Executives in Silicon Valley evangelize novel technologies at work even as they send their children to Waldorf schools that ban electronics. And four decades of incredible innovation in America have done nothing to turn the tide of rising poverty and inequality. Why then do we keep hoping that technology will solve our greatest social ills? In this incisive book, Toyama cures us of the manic rhetoric of digital utopians and reinvigorates us with a deeply people-centric view of social change. Contrasting the outlandish claims of tech zealots with stories of people like Patrick Awuah, a Microsoft millionaire who left his engineering job to open Ghana's first liberal arts university, and Tara Sreenivasa, a graduate of a remarkable South Indian school that takes impoverished children into the high-tech offices of Goldman Sachs and Mercedes-Benz, Geek Heresy is a heartwarming reminder that it's human wisdom, not machines, that move our world forward.
Author : Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1315408252
This book examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of extraterritorialisation, outsourcing, and privatisation of law enforcement tasks. New forms of state cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international human rights law. This book brings together some of the most authoritative legal voices to provide an introduction to core issues such as state responsibility, attribution and extraterritorial jurisdiction, as well as up-to-date case studies of different transnational law enforcement issues. It will interest students, scholars and practitioners of IR, human rights and public international law.