Casebook on Human Dignity and Human Rights
Author :
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9231042025
Casebook on benefit and harm
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 9231042033
Book Description
Dignity Law
Author : Erin Daly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780837741352
Book Description
Human dignity recognizes and reflects the equal worth of each and every member of the human family, regardless of gender, race, social or political status, talents, merit, or any other differentiator. But it is also right that can be claimed, an interest that can be protected, like liberty or equality or shelter or free speech. It is now recognized in more than 150 of the world's constitutions from all regions of the world. Also, increasingly, courts around the globe are recognizing the right to dignity and applying it against governments and others to ensure that the dignity of all is respected. This unique book aims to provide an introduction to dignity rights, including what they are (or are not), how they are embodied constitutionally around the globe, and how courts interpret and apply them (or don't). This book includes selected texts showing constitutionally embedded dignity rights around the globe, an overview which maps dignity law, and units on introduction to dignity law; dignity and identity; living with dignity; protecting the dignity of people with particular vulnerabilities; and participatory dignity, along with a conclusion and index.--Publisher.
Business and Human Rights
Author : Florian Wettstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1009158384
Book Description
The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in business and human rights coherently incorporates ethical, legal and managerial perspectives. This path-breaking textbook will be a valuable introductory resource for students, instructors and researchers in business, public policy and law schools.
The Last Utopia
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0674256522
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Human Dignity
Author : Aharon Barak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316240983
Book Description
Human dignity is now a central feature of many modern constitutions and international documents. As a constitutional value, human dignity involves a person's free will, autonomy, and ability to write a life story within the framework of society. As a constitutional right, it gives full expression to the value of human dignity, subject to the specific demands of constitutional architecture. This analytical study of human dignity as both a constitutional value and a constitutional right adopts a legal-interpretive perspective. It explores the sources of human dignity as a legal concept, its role in constitutional documents, its content, and its scope. The analysis is augmented by examples from comparative legal experience, including chapters devoted to the role of human dignity in American, Canadian, German, South African, and Israeli constitutional law.
The Development of Human Rights Law by the Judges of the International Court of Justice
Author : Shiv R.S. Bedi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847313434
Book Description
The jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice generally demonstrates that no rule of international law can be interpreted and applied without regard to its innate values and the basic principles of human rights. Through its case-law the ICJ has made immense contributions to the development of human rights law, and in so doing continues to provide solutions to mounting international problems, such as terrorism and unilateral use of force. Part I of the book argues that the legislative spirit of contemporary international law lies in the doctrine of human rights and that the spirit of human rights doctrine lies in the principle of human dignity. Furthermore it argues that the processes of international legislation and international adjudication are inseparable, and that there is no norm of international law which does not intertwine the fundamental principle of human dignity with human rights doctrine. Hence human rights law is more a school of law than merely a normative branch of international law, and the ICJ's willingness to engage in the development of human rights law depends upon which judicial ideology its judges subscribe to.In order to evaluate how this human rights spirit is manifested, or occasionally not manifested, through the vast jurisprudence of the ICJ, Parts II and III critically examine the Court's principal contentious and advisory cases in which it has treated human rights questions. The legal reasoning of the Court and the opinions appended to its decisions by its individual judges are analysed in light of the principle of human dignity and the doctrine of human rights.
Human Rights in Global Health
Author : Benjamin Mason Meier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190672706
Book Description
Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through global health governance. This volume examines the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, studying an expansive set of health challenges through a multi-sectoral array of global organizations. To analyze the structural determinants of rights-based governance, the organizations in this volume include those international bureaucracies that implement human rights in ways that influence public health in a globalizing world. This volume brings together leading health and human rights scholars and practitioners from academia, non-governmental organizations, and the United Nations system. They explore the foundations of human rights as a normative framework for global health governance, the mandate of the World Health Organization to pursue a human rights-based approach to health, the role of inter-governmental organizations across a range of health-related human rights, the influence of rights-based economic governance on public health, and the focus on global health among institutions of human rights governance. Contributing chapters each map the distinct human rights efforts within a specific institution of global governance for health. Through the comparative institutional analysis in this volume, the contributing authors examine institutional dynamics to operationalize human rights in organizational policies, programs, and practices and assess institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit human rights mainstreaming for global health advancement.
Casebook on European Union Health Law
Author : André den Exter
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9046606783
Book Description
Health is becoming increasingly important to the European Union. The EU Court of Justice has also been involved in many health-related issues. The Casebook on European Union Health Law offers practitioners and students an opportunity to discover and understand the Court of Justice’s case law through highlights from health (related) decisions. It presents a range of carefully edited extracts, that clearly illustrate the essence and reasoning behind each decision. Compiled to be used in conjunction with Maklu’s EU Health Law Treaties and Legislation, this book covers an important part of the graduate European health law course in a series of structured chapters dealing with human rights and health, public health, patient safety/consumer protection, safety and health at work, patient mobility, professional mobility, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, privacy and data protection, insurance, competition and public procurement. The book is indispensable for practitioners and students of health law and policy.
Our Rights, Our Information
Author :
Publisher : CHRI
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8188205524
