The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
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Author :
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
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Author : United Nations. General Assembly
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1783742216
The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community? Since 1948, the Declaration has stood as a beacon and a standard for a better world. Yet the work of making its ideals real is far from over. Hideous and systemic human rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate around the world. Too many people, particularly those in power, are hostile to human rights or indifferent to their claims. Meanwhile, our global interdependence deepens. Bringing together world leaders and thinkers in the fields of politics, ethics, and philosophy, the Commission set out to develop a common understanding of the meaning of global citizenship – one that arises from basic human rights and empowers every individual in the world. This landmark report affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to renew the 1948 enterprise, and the very ideal of the human family, for our day and generation.
Author : Federico Lenzerini
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199664285
International human rights law was originally focused on universal individual rights. This book examines the developments which have seen it change to a multi-cultural approach, one more sensitive to the cultures of the people directly affected by them. It argues that this can provide benefits, but that aspects of universalism must be retained.
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9789213622513
This publication is designed to assist United Nations staff who provide human rights advice to States, which undertake to amend an existing constitution or write a new one. It should also be of use to States that undertake constitutional reform, including political leaders, policymakers, legislators and those entrusted to draft constitutional amendments or a new constitution. Further this publication should also facilitate advocacy efforts by civil society to ensure that human rights are properly reflected in constitutional amendments or new constitutions. Finally, this publication, along with the international human rights instruments, should not only provide a standard to measure whether constitutional amendments or a new constitution has appropriately reflected human rights and fundamental freedoms, but also assist in evaluating whether the processes used in constitutional reform are consistent with international procedural norms"--Introduction, page 1.
Author : Allan R. Brewer-Carías
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521492025
This book examines the most recent trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding. It analyzes the regulations of the seventeen amparo statutes in force in Latin America, as well as the regulation on the amparo guarantee established in Article 25 of the American Convention of Human Rights.
Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199560102
This major new handbook provides the definitive and comprehensive analysis of the UN and will be an essential point of reference for all those working on or in the organization.
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 37,16 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 067498482X
“No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.” —George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place, economic liberalization has emerged as the dominant force. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn considers how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of broader social and economic justice. Moyn places the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift and explores why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside exploding inequality. “Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists and advocates, in the quest to make the world better for all, have actually helped to make things worse... Sure to provoke a wider discussion.” —Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal “A sharpening interrogation of the liberal order and the institutions of global governance created by, and arguably for, Pax Americana... Consistently bracing.” —Pankaj Mishra, London Review of Books “Moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice—above all our belief in the emancipatory potential of human rights—need to be discarded if we are work to make our vastly unequal world more equal... [A] tour de force.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author : Richard Sobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107128293
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.
Author : William A. Schabas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 4171 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139619624
A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate research into the scope of, meaning of and intent behind the instrument's provisions. It permits an examination of the various drafts of what became the thirty articles of the Declaration, including one of the earliest documents – a compilation of human rights provisions from national constitutions, organised thematically. The documents are organised chronologically and thorough thematic indexing facilitates research into the origins of specific rights and norms. It is also annotated in order to provide information relating to names, places, events and concepts that might have been familiar in the late 1940s but are today more obscure.