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| Author | : Jon Piccini |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2019-10-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110847277X |
Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.
| Author | : Alastair Davidson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1997-05-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521459730 |
This important, theoretically sophisticated work explores the concepts of li beral democracy, citizenship and rights. Grounded in critical original research, the book examines Australia's political and legal institutions, and traces the history and future of citizenship and the state in Australia. The central theme is that making proof of belonging to the national culture a precondition of citizenship is inappropriate for a multicultural society such as Australia. This becomes an object lesson for the multicultural regional polities forming throughout the world.
| Author | : Pamela Slotte |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2015-09-11 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1107107644 |
Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
| 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.
| Author | : Helen M. Stacy |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2009-02-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0804771022 |
A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday tragedies, such as female genital mutilation, human rights abuses continue at an alarming rate. As the world population increases and global trade brings new wealth as well as new problems, international law can and should respond better to those who live in fear of violence, neglect, or harm. Modern critiques global human rights fall into three categories: sovereignty, culture, and civil society. These are not new problems, but have long been debated as part of the legal philosophical tradition. Taking lessons from tradition and recasting them in contemporary light, Helen Stacy proposes new approaches to fill the gaps in current approaches: relational sovereignty, reciprocal adjudication, and regional human rights. She forcefully argues that law and courts must play a vital role in forging a better human rights vision in the future.
| Author | : Jay Winter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2013-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110735546X |
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.
| Author | : Robyn Blewer |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2021-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030697916 |
This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the relevant law was – or was not - applied throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the impact ‘safeguards’ like corroboration and closed court rules had on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear – of children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform – influenced the criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same’.
| Author | : Steven L. B. Jensen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2022-01-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009020668 |
This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'second-generation rights' – rights that appeared after World War II as additions to a rights corpus stretching back to the Enlightenment. Not only do social rights stretch back that far; they arguably pre-date the Enlightenment. In tracing their long history across various global contexts, this volume reveals how debates over social rights have often turned on deeper struggles over social obligation – over determining who owes what to whom, morally and legally. In the modern period, these struggles have been intertwined with questions of freedom, democracy, equality and dignity. Many factors have shaped the history of social rights, from class, gender and race to religion, empire and capitalism. With incomparable chronological depth, geographical breadth and conceptual nuance, Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History sets an agenda for future histories of human rights.
