Download or read book The French Revolution and Human Rights written by Lynn Hunt and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the issue of rights and citizenship, Revolutionary France, French Revolution and Human Rights uses original translations and commentary of both debates and legislation that led to the French development of the modern concept of human rights.
Download or read book The French Revolution and Human Rights written by Lynn Hunt and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief documentary history explores the issue of rights and citizenship that dominated Revolutionary France and helped define modern notions of civil rights. The rich selection of 38 primary documents - many never before published in Englishallows students to read and analyze, firsthand, the intense debates and subsequent legislation engendered by the French Revolution. An extensive introductory essay discusses the controversies over citizenship and rights current in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Headnotes for the documents, a chronology, a bibliography, engravings from the period, and questions to consider are also included.
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Rights Struggles in Twentieth century France written by Max Likin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to human rights controversies in twentieth-century France, from the Dreyfus Affair at the beginning of the century, to the arguments over women and immigrants' rights at its end. Using the Ligue des Droits de L'Homme (LDH) - or the League of the Rights of Man - as a narrative thread for this chronological study, the book tracks the gradual expansion of human rights in France in the wake of the two world wars, the Algerian quagmire and decolonisation more generally. Examining the capital role of the LDH whilst also highlighting the role of individuals and key activists, the book helps us to contextualise the quandaries faced by unseen minorities, particularly colonial subjects and women. The analysis also demonstrates the influence of French human rights activism on key international documents of human rights law, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The LDH occupies a central place in French justice debates and is therefore an ideal template to analyse the rising influence of humanitarianism and crimes against humanity in French causes célèbres from the 1970s onwards. However, the author goes further to look beyond the LDH and even France itself, offering wide-ranging surveys of dominant rights issues across Europe at any given period. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with key members of the LDH, this book provides an accessible overview of human rights struggles in twentieth-century France. Max Likin is a Lecturer in History at the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) at the University of Puget Sound, USA, which provides a rigorous college program for incarcerated women in Washington State. Having previously taught at Harvard University, Max specialises in French justice debates on indivisible rights.
Download or read book Human Rights in France written by France. Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Rights in Asia written by Randall Peerenboom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Rights in Asia considers how human rights are viewed and implemented in Asia. It covers not just civil and political rights, but also social, economic and cultural rights. This study discusses the problems arising from the fact that ideas of human rights have evolved in Western liberal democracies and examines how far such values are compatible with Asian values and applicable in Asian contexts. Core chapters on France and the USA provide a benchmark on how human rights have emerged and how they are applied and implemented in a civil law and a common law jurisdiction. These are then followed by twelve chapters on the major countries of East Asia plus India, each of which follows a common template to consider the context of the legal system in each country, black letter law, legal discussions and debates and key current issues concerning human rights in each jurisdiction.
Download or read book On the Spirit of Rights written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.
Download or read book Human Rights and Humanity s Rights During Year Three of the French Revolution written by Eduardo Baker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793. It presents the revolutionaries’ distinct view on human rights and the rights of the peoples, as well as their philosophical underpinnings. After discussing how contemporary legal history and theory, and political philosophy approached the revolutionary period, the book tackles the main topics covered during the debates and proposals. Starting with the issue of external relations and the sovereignty of the people and ending with natural rights and Republicanism, this book shows how apparently technical questions (such as what procedure should be implemented to declare a war) are intertwined with philosophical reflections on rights and with problems that were urgent at the time.
Download or read book Healing France Improving Peace Prosperity and Human Rights in the French Republic written by Mark O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel blasted on 20. April 2021 the ruling by France's highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. "Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole reason that she was a Jew, " said Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Hayat to the Times of Israel. "This was a despicable murder that harmed not only the victim herself and her family, but also the entire Jewish community's sense of security." "The way to confront anti-Semitism is through education, zero tolerance, and heavy punishment," Hayat continued. "This is not the message that the court's ruling conveys." Halimi, an Orthodox Jewish woman in her sixties, died in 2017 after being pushed out of the window of her Paris flat by neighbor Kobili Traore, who shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic). But in a decision last Wednesday, the Court of Cassation's Supreme Court of Appeals upheld rulings by lower tribunals that Traore cannot stand trial because he was too high on marijuana to be criminally responsible for his actions. Traore, a heavy pot smoker, has been in psychiatric care since Halimi's death. The court said he committed the killing after succumbing to a "delirious fit" and was thus not responsible for his actions. French President Emanuel Macron expressed support on Sunday for the country's Jewish community and its efforts to bring Halimi's killer to trial. He said he would seek a change to laws to prevent such a case from happening again. In a rare and controversial critique of France's justice system, Macron said that taking drugs and "going crazy" should not take away criminal responsibility. Having criticized a lower court's insanity finding in January last year, drawing a sharp riposte from the country's top magistrates, Macron on Sunday expressed support for the battle to bring Traore to trial for the killing. Therefore it is very important that the French government - as well as the French judicial system - makes a greater effort to counteract and prevent rightwing-extremism, by enforcing a policy of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism, and confronting anti-Semitism through education, zero tolerance and punishment; so that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be upheld in France.
Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights of Man written by Thomas Paine and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflection on and endorsement of the French Revolution, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man advances the theory of the inherency of human rights that cannot be conferred or revoked by governments, and examines the circumstances within which revolution against governments would be acceptable within the context of human rights. As a result of his groundbreaking opinions, Thomas Paine was tried and convicted of seditious libel against the Crown of England, but escaped a sentence of death because he was residing in France at the time. Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to today's digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
Download or read book Inventing Human Rights A History written by Lynn Hunt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.
Download or read book The Root of Humiliation written by Judith Sunderland and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Recommendations -- To the Government of France -- To the Parliament -- To the Ministry of Interior -- Methodology -- Terminology -- I. Abuses of Identity Check Powers -- Ethnic Profiling -- Multiple Stops -- Intrusive Searches -- Insults and Physical Abuse during Stops -- Detention or Charge for "Insulting an Officer" -- Inadequate Safeguards against Abuse -- Too Much Discretion in Law -- No Recording of Stops -- Inadequate Accountability Mechanisms -- III. Impact on Community-Police Relations -- IV. Relevant National and International Standards -- Prohibition of Discrimination -- Right to Privacy -- Use of Force -- Duty to Respect -- Recommendations -- To the Government of France -- To the Parliament --To the Ministry of Interior -- To the Defender of Rights -- To the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament -- To the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) -- To the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights and European Commission against Racism and Intolerance -- To the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism -- To the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the UN Human Rights Committee -- Acknowledgments.
Download or read book Healing France Restoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR in the French Republic written by Mark O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French pilot has filed a legal complaint after being subjected to a hazing ritual in which he was tied to a target and had fighter jets open fire around him, his lawyer has said. The young man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape, his lawyer said, confirming details first published in La Provence newspaper. After having a bag put over his head, the recruit in his 30s was transported to a live-fire target range, tied to a target, and then heard fighter jets open fire and drop munitions around him for 20 minutes, the newspaper reported. The man's lawyer, Frederic Berna, told AFP he had lodged a legal complaint over the incident at a court in the city of Marseille "in the middle of the week" which could lead to charges of deliberately endangering someone's life and aggravated violence. Video and pictures of the hooded and motionless victim, in which the perpetrators are clearly visible, have been handed over to prosecutors. The revelations come just months after the conviction of three French soldiers over a brutal initiation ceremony at the country's most prestigious military academy. The men were found guilty of manslaughter over the death of a young recruit who drowned at the Saint-Cyr academy in 2012. Asked about the allegations in Corsica, a spokesman for the French air force told AFP that an investigation had been launched once the chief of staff learned about the incident in May 2019. "Strong sanctions" had been decided against the perpetrators, the spokesman said, without specifying the punishment or the ranks of those implicated. "The air force condemns any activity that could cause physical or psychological damage to its personnel," he said. Bullying and humiliating initiation ceremonies, known as hazing, are common in armed forces around the world and have been linked to mental health problems, suicides and sometimes murder. A Russian soldier was handed a 24-year prison term in January this earlier after gunning down eight of his colleagues in 2019 who he said had made his life "hell". Therefore it is imperative that all armed forces in the International Community immediately put an end to activities that could cause physical or psychological damage to their personnel - in particular hazing and humiliating initiation ceremonies - so that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) can be upheld in the International Community.
Download or read book Sovereignty International Law and the French Revolution written by Edward James Kolla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Download or read book Report on Human Rights Practices Country of France written by U. S. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France is a multiparty constitutional democracy. The president of the republic is elected by popular vote for a five-year term. Nicolas Sarkozy is the incumbent. The upper house (Senate) of the bicameral parliament is elected indirectly through an electoral college, while the lower house (National Assembly) is elected directly. Elections for seats in the National Assembly and for the presidency in 2007 and for seats in the Senate in 2011 were considered free and fair. The Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is the majority party in parliament. Security forces reported to civilian authorities. The most significant human rights problem during the year involved government evictions and compulsory repatriations of illegal immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, many of whom were Roma. Several attacks against Roma were also reported. Overcrowded and unhygienic conditions in prisons were compounded by problems in the judicial system, including lengthy pretrial detention and protracted investigation and trials. French Muslims and others of immigrant origin faced some discrimination, particularly, in the case of Muslims, as a result of a prohibition against face-covering attire in public institutions. Other human rights problems reported during the year included antidefamation laws that limited freedom of speech and press, societal violence against women, anti-Semitic incidents, and trafficking in persons.
Download or read book France Country Reports on Human Rights Practices written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor presents the "2000 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" for France, which was released in February 2001. The report provides an overview of the country and discusses the respect for and abuses of human rights in France.
