Author : Marcia H. Rioux
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004189505
This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.
Author : Sofia Gruskin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780415948074
This anthology of articles collected by a cast of award-winning scholars in the field of public health illustrates that promoting and protecting human rights is fundamental to promoting and protecting health. New issues covered in this volume include: emerging technologies; family and health; responding to violence; and methods and strategies.
Author : Birgit Schippers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786600161
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights, Critical Perspectives on Human Rights is a key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.
Author : Hoda Mahmoudi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789738237
This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity.
Author : Rob Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107006937
This collection evaluates the crisis of confidence in human rights which underpins understandings of just decision making and liberal democracy.
Author : Saladin Meckled-García
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134234546
The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in discourse, treaties and in domestic jurisdictions. However, as this study shows, the debate around this development is actually about human rights law. This text scrutinizes the extent to which legalization shapes the human rights ideal, and surveys its ethical, political and practical repercussions. How does the law influence what we think about rights? What more is there to such rights than their legal protection? These expert contributors approach these questions from a range of perspectives: political theory/moral theory, anthropology, sociology, international law, international politics and political science, to deliver a diversity of methodologies. This book is essential reading for those wishing to develop a clear understanding of the relationship between human rights ideals and laws and for those working toward the fostering of a genuine human rights culture.
Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2012-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812201663
Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.
Author : ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm
Publisher : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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Author : José-Manuel Barreto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1443866458
Globalization, interdisciplinarity, and the critique of the Eurocentric canon are transforming the theory and practice of human rights. This collection takes up the point of view of the colonized in order to unsettle and supplement the conventional understanding of human rights. Putting together insights coming from Decolonial Thinking, the Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), Radical Black Theory and Subaltern Studies, the authors construct a new history and theory of human rights, and a more comprehensive understanding of international human rights law in the background of modern colonialism and the struggle for global justice. An exercise of dialogical and interdisciplinary thinking, this collection of articles by leading scholars puts into conversation important areas of research on human rights, namely philosophy or theory of human rights, history, and constitutional and international law. This book combines critical consciousness and moral sensibility, and offers methods of interpretation or hermeneutical strategies to advance the project of decolonizing human rights, a veritable tool-box to create new Third-World discourses of human rights.
Author : Gerard McCann
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1447349237
With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. Including a forward by Albie Sachs, this book presents an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities. It will engage those with an interest in social policy, ethics, politics, international relations, civil society organisations and human rights-based approaches to campaigning and policy development.
