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Author | : Tony Evans |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1998-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780719051036 |
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This book offers a critical reappraisal of the project for universal human rights. The twentieth, thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were all marked by the publication of volumes that celebrated achievements in the field of human rights. Many of these took a self-congratulatory line that emphasized progress on the protection of human rights, ignoring the facts of torture, genocide, structural deprivation and the routine exclusion of some groups from political, economic and social participation. This book brings together some of the leading critics of the current project for universal human rights, including Noam Chomsky and Johan Galtung, as a counterweight to triumphalist approaches on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration.
Author | : Michael Ignatieff |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-12-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400842840 |
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Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens. Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become an idolatry. In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years. Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe. Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, comments by four leading scholars--K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher--and a response by Ignatieff.
Author | : Yael Danieli |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2018-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415784764 |
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Containing contributions by specialists from the intergovernmental and non-governmental worlds and voices of victim/survivors, the book critically reviews the international and regional human rights systems established over the past 50 years in terms of their effectiveness for the victims of human rights violations, and provides future directions for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Author | : Yael Danieli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9781315223469 |
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Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137036087 |
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At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled to do so in China; Louis Henkin, the modern "father" of international law, and Richard Goldstone, the former chief prosecutor for the Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes tribunals. A half-century since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the time is right to assess how policies and actions effect the realization of human rights and to point to new directions and challenges that lie ahead. A must have for everyone in the human rights community and the broader foreign policy community as well as the reader who is increasingly aware of the visibility of human rights concerns on the public stage.
Author | : Teresa R. Wagner |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780761818410 |
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Fifty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In recent years however, the resolve of the UN to abide by the Universal Declaration has waned. The commitment to protecting human rights as a means for world stability and peace is at stake as groups of lobbyists seek to redefine traditional human rights. The editors of this book from the Family Research Council (FRC) have gathered a collection of essays from scholars, physicians, politicians, and human rights activists from all over the world. Each paper offers reflections on the UN's past performance, as well as ideas for its future role in human rights protection. The book concludes with reflections by Alan Keyes, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He argues that the UN cannot effectively represent principles of decency and right when it is itself composed of nations that do not observe decency and right.
Author | : Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association. Human Rights and Youth Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ken Coates |
Publisher | : Spokesman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9780851246215 |
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Author | : Yael Danieli |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter R. Baehr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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