[PDF] The Future Of Human Rights eBook

Author : Alison Brysk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509520619

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Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons – need human rights to gain recognition, campaign for justice, and save lives. But how can we secure a brighter future for human rights? What changes are required to confront the regime’s weaknesses and emerging global challenges? In this cutting-edge analysis, Alison Brysk sets out a pragmatic reformist agenda for human rights in the twenty-first century. Tracing problems and solutions through contemporary case studies – the plight of refugees, declining democracies such as Mexico and Turkey, the expansion of women’s rights, new norms for indigenous peoples, and rights regression in the USA – she shows that the dynamic strength of human rights lies in their evolving political practice. This distinctive vision demands that we build upon the gains of the human rights regime to construct new pathways which address historic rights gaps, from citizenship to security, from environmental protection to resurgent nationalism, and to globalization itself. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience as a leading human rights scholar and activist, The Future of Human Rights offers a broad and authoritative guide to the big questions in global human rights governance today.

Author : Stephen Hopgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107193354

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With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.

Author : Upendra Baxi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2007-12-12
Category :
ISBN : 019908789X

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This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities.

Author : Jernej Letnar Černič
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business
ISBN : 9781780684918

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This book presents theoretical and practical considerations on whether it would be feasible to adopt an international treaty on business and human rights to address corporate human rights abuses.

Author : Philip Alston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521645744

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Every state in the world has undertaken human rights obligations on the basis of UN treaties. Today's challenge is to enhance the effectiveness of procedures and institutions established to promote the accountability of governments. The six treaty bodies that monitor and evaluate state policies and practices play a vital role, but the whole system has been stretched almost to breaking point. It is under-funded, many governments fail to report or do so very late or superficially, there is a growing backlog of individual complaints, broad reservations have been lodged by many states, and the expertise of committee members has been questioned. This volume contains detailed analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of the system, written by leading participants in the work of the treaty bodies. Their recommendations provide a blueprint for far-reaching reform of a system of major importance for the future of international efforts to protect human rights.

Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108418139

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Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Author : Richard Lang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1527505146

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In November 2016 the University of Brighton hosted a one day conference entitled “The Future of Human Rights in the UK”. Legal academics and practitioners from across the UK and Ireland attended to discuss the various topical issues that arise under the title of the conference. Papers were presented on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the role of the European Court of Human Rights, surrogacy and parental rights, union rights, social and economic rights and Brexit; to name but a few. This edited collection comprises a selection of the papers presented. It is a thought-provoking collection designed to make the reader ask themselves: what does the future of human rights in the UK look like?

Author : Philip Alston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190239492

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Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become more sophisticated and complex, while also being subjected to stronger scrutiny from governments. Nevertheless, despite the prominence of fact-finding, it remains strikingly under-studied and under-theorized. Too little has been done to bring forth the assumptions, methodologies, and techniques of this rapidly developing field, or to open human rights fact-finding to critical and constructive scrutiny. The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of fact-finding with rigorous and critical analysis of the field of practice, while providing a range of accounts of what actually happens. It deepens the study and practice of human rights investigations, and fosters fact-finding as a discretely studied topic, while mapping crucial transformations in the field. The contributions to this book are the result of a major international conference organized by New York University Law School's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Engaging the expertise and experience of the editors and contributing authors, it offers a broad approach encompassing contemporary issues and analysis across the human rights spectrum in law, international relations, and critical theory. This book addresses the major areas of human rights fact-finding such as victim and witness issues; fact-finding for advocacy, enforcement, and litigation; the role of interdisciplinary expertise and methodologies; crowd sourcing, social media, and big data; and international guidelines for fact-finding.

Author : Molly K. Land
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1107179637

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Provides a roadmap for understanding the relationship between technology and human rights law and practice. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Burns H. Weston
Publisher : Brill Nijhoff
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781571050984

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