World Conference on Human Rights

World Conference on Human Rights
Author: D.Bhaskara Rao
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Human rights
ISBN: 9788171416615

With the exception of the pursuit of peace, there is no cause with which the United Nations of more closely identified than the cause of human rights. To strengthen the deep commitment of the UN to the cause of human dignity, the World Conference on Human Rights took place in Vienna. This book on the World Conference on Human Rights presents the full original texts of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Actions along with the Opening Statement of UN Secretary General the International Bill of Human Rights and the Human Rights: A United Nations Priority for the benefit of human rights educationists, activities, policy makers speakers, writers and general public. Let the UN slogan All Human Rights for All become a reality.

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Author: Asbjørn Eide
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9047433866

The first edition of this text was a textbook on internationally recognized economic, social and cultural rights. While focusing on this category of rights, it also analyzed their relationships to other human rights, civil and political in particular. This revised edition updates the information.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Total Pages: 529
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 931214085X

Space in Support of Human Rights

Space in Support of Human Rights
Author: Annette Froehlich
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030354261

This book stems from the worrying scale and intensity of conflicts, humanitarian crises, and human rights violations around the world, which can be seen in a wide range of global hotspots including Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, Eritrea, and numerous others. These developments are also relevant for Europe, given the large-scale migrations they can produce. In order to effectively respond to them, it has become imperative to analyse ways in which space data and technologies can be used to uphold human rights and monitor violations. Various international tribunals, such as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), are increasingly relying on satellite data and especially images when considering human rights violations cases. This use of space-related technologies represents a trend that promises to continue as the range and accuracy of space-derived data improves. Further, satellite data has important legal implications because it allows the fulfilment of international obligations to be monitored, and offers a powerful tool for dispute resolution. Accordingly, this book examines the use of satellite images for cases concerning human rights violations, since the multitude of humanitarian crises worldwide demonstrate that it is of the utmost importance to analyse how space law, policies and space-related applications could further support the implementation and monitoring of the observance of human rights, thus contributing to enhanced security and sustainable development. A range of relevant areas, such as migration, refugees (including settlements and whether they are adequately supplied with basic necessities), water distribution and quality, housing and settlement monitoring are crucial aspects addressed in this book. In closing, the use of satellite data for legal purposes is not without its fair share of problems and concerns, which are also considered to guide the evolution of this emerging field.

Human Rights Human Wrongs

Human Rights Human Wrongs
Author: Shambhu Ram Simkhada
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-12-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000343464

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the best gift of the United Nations and its main human rights organ, the Human Rights Commission to “We, the Peoples of the World”. But that powerful instrument is often rendered powerless by the behaviour of individuals running the institutions and the states, arguably the most powerful institution conceptualised by human mind so far. In the process, the UN comes under serious criticism and its most important organ which helped give the UDHR was dissolved for “failing to live up to its ideals”. Ironically, the same states and their representatives most instrumental in creating the UN institutions, including the Human Rights Commission first but later vilifying it and leading the campaign for its replacement by the Human Rights Council are now once again attacking it as “hypocritical and self-serving organisation that makes a mockery of human rights” and the most powerful member state feels compelled to walk out of the Council. Where does the world, the UN and “we the peoples” stand in the search for greater freedom from want and fear, better enjoyment of dignity and rights? Travelling through an extraordinary journey of life, academic pursuits and expeditions of professional and diplomatic mountain climbing, including the Chairmanship of the 56th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights and its 5th Special Session on the Human Rights of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestine Territories, Shambhu Ram Simkhada presents a scholarly, diplomatic, advocate and defender perspectives on the contemporary state of human rights and human wrongs in the scale of his own human conscience. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

EDITED BOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS & STATE OBLIGATIONS

EDITED BOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS & STATE OBLIGATIONS
Author: Dr. K. SELVAKUMAR
Publisher: Institute of Legal Education
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 8196038437

ILE Publication House is a publication department of Institute of Legal Education. It furthers the ILE’s objective of excellence in research and publication. Institute of Legal Education is the Largest Academic Publisher with 104 National and International Journals.

Freedom's Ordeal

Freedom's Ordeal
Author: Peter Juviler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0812202392

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely achieve full democracy in their first try, Peter Juviler analyzes these successor states as crucial and not always unpromising tests of democracy's viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedom's Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms.

Encyclopedia of Human Rights

Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Author: Edward H. Lawson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1766
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781560323624

Preface to the first edition