Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Author: Jack Donnelly
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780801487767

(unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century
Author: Gordon Brown
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: 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.

A Universal Human Rights Model

A Universal Human Rights Model
Author: Nazar Al Baharna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2013-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781478703860

One of the biggest issues in the world today is the violation of basic human rights. Across the globe, from Syria to Rwanda to Myanmar, millions of innocent people have been tortured, killed or persecuted for their beliefs or minority status. Ethnic cleansing and genocide have murdered millions more, and the widespread of denial of equal rights to women is still in the increase. Even in our own backyard, people are being subjected to torture and unlawful detention, and forced disappearance. No country in the world is unaffected by human rights abuse. But finally, we have a practical tool for solving the global human rights problem. It is this book, A Universal Human Rights Model. There are plenty of other books already in print that discuss human rights, but A Universal Human Rights Model is the only one to provide a basic human rights model that can be applied to achieve actual results on the ground in any context. The book: Defines human rights, details the elements of the human rights model, and explains how to use the model to implement a human rights action plan on a national scale. It also comprises a human rights index and indicators by which human rights actors can measure their progress in the transformation process. At 103,000 words, A Universal Human Rights Model is a comprehensive work that will appeal to duty bearers, state agents, government officials, human rights advocates, NGOs, researchers, and anyone interested in human rights.

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference

Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference
Author: Brooke A. Ackerly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2008-06-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139472585

From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists, Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the relativists' concerns about universalizing from particulars and the activists' commitment to justice. Unlike universal theories that rely on shared commitments to divine authority or to an 'enlightened' way of reasoning, Ackerly's theory relies on rigorous methodological attention to difference and disagreement. She sets out human rights as at once a research ethic, a tool for criticism of injustice and a call to recognize our obligations to promote justice through our actions. This book will be of great interest to political theorists, feminist and gender studies scholars and researchers of social movements.

Mental Health and Human Rights

Mental Health and Human Rights
Author: Michael Dudley
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199213968

People with mental disorders often suffer the worst conditions of life.This book is the first comprehensive survey of the mental health/human rights relationship. It examines the relationships and histories of mental health and human rights, and their interconnections with law, culture, ethnicity, class, economics, biology, and stigma.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author: William A. Schabas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 4171
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: 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.

The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations

The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations
Author: Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1025
Release: 2008-11-13
Genre: 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.

The Concept of Human Rights

The Concept of Human Rights
Author: Jack Donnelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000704734

First published in 1985. In this study, Donnelly distinguishes between "having a right" and "being right" and elaborates the distinction with great subtlety to show that rights have to be understood as action and not as a possession. This is done with such clarity and good sense that he is able to cast light on all aspects of the often confusing discussions of the natures and usages of "right". He illuminates an astonishing range of issues, from the limitations of Thomist and utilitarian conceptions of right to the confusions of many present-day defenders of rights, both in the West and the Third World. As importantly, Donnelly is centrally concerned with the human aspect of "human rights". He is thus able to rest his discussion of rights on a plausible philosophical anthropology as well as an appreciation of an historical dimension to human rights, and, at the end of his book, is able to open the door towards potential new developments in the discussion of human rights. Down the path he points us lies a reconciliation of the notion of individual rights with that of political community. This title will be of great interest to students of politics and philosophy.

The Culturalization of Human Rights Law

The Culturalization of Human Rights Law
Author: Federico Lenzerini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014
Genre: 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.