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| Author | : Julie Mertus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
Examines the effectiveness of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting human rights through a series of comparative case studies.
| Author | : Koen De Feyter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 407 |
| Release | : 2011-09-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139501550 |
Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local relevance of human rights increases? Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international documents have reaffirmed human rights as global norms. This book examines what factors determine whether appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level are successful, and whether the UDHR adequately responds to threats as currently defined by relevant groups or whether a revision of some of the ideas included in the UDHR is needed in order to increase its contemporary relevance.
| Author | : Mark Goodale |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2007-07-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521683784 |
Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how groups and organizations mobilize human rights language in a variety of local settings, often differently from those imagined by human rights law itself. The case studies reveal the contradictions and ambiguities of human rights approaches to various forms of violence. They show that this openness is not a failure of universal human rights as a coherent legal or ethical framework but an essential element in the development of living and organic ideas of human rights in context. Studying human rights in practice means examining the channels of communication and institutional structures that mediate between global ideas and local situations. Suitable for use on inter-disciplinary courses globally.
| Author | : Emilie Hafner-Burton |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2013-03-24 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0691155364 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.
| Author | : Julie Fraser |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2020-08-06 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1108489575 |
Critiquing the State-centric and legalistic approach to implementing human rights, this book illustrates the efficacy of relying upon social institutions.
| 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 | : Sally Engle Merry |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2009-07-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0226520757 |
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.
| 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.
| Author | : Julie Mertus |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1135934738 |
Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.
| Author | : Alison Dundes Renteln |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2018-07 |
| Genre | : Human rights |
| ISBN | : 9781527509337 |
This book explores issues of creation, distribution, and control of images through official and unofficial sources, asking what impact that has had on human rights and what the ethical implications are. The volume includes research from healthcare advocates, human rights scholars and activists, photographers, and visual anthropologists who see a need for more careful contextual interpretation of images in global and local settings. It represents diverse forms of scholarship and the ever-changing field of research methodologies, and it examines how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual works to communicate these issues with the public. As such, this collection will be useful for researchers studying in the fields of visual culture and human rights.
