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Book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights written by Birgit Schippers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the significance of human rights for critical theory and practice. While the contributions engage sensitively yet thoroughly with the regulatory, disciplinary, and exclusionary effects of human rights, they do so without giving up on the transformative potential of human rights. By thinking productively through the exclusions, paradoxes and aporias of human rights, Critical Perspectives on Human Rights is a key reference text for students and scholars in this important area of inquiry.

Book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law written by Marcia H. Rioux and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.

Book Perspectives on Health and Human Rights

Download or read book Perspectives on Health and Human Rights written by Sofia Gruskin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of articles collected by a cast of award-winning scholars in the field of public health illustrates that promoting and protecting human rights is fundamental to promoting and protecting health. New issues covered in this volume include: emerging technologies; family and health; responding to violence; and methods and strategies.

Book Human Rights of Women

Download or read book Human Rights of Women written by Rebecca J. Cook and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.

Book Trauma and Human Rights

Download or read book Trauma and Human Rights written by Lisa D. Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims’ experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the development and current status of each of these frameworks, examining traumatic experiences and human rights violations across a range of populations and describing efforts to remediate them. Individual chapters address these topics among Native Americans, African Americans, children, women, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender individuals, those with mental disabilities, refugees and asylees, and older adults, and also in the context of social policy and truth and reconciliation commissions. The authors demonstrate that the trauma and human rights frameworks each contribute invaluable and complementary insights, and that their integration can help us fully appreciate and address human suffering at both individual and collective levels.

Book International Human Rights  Social Policy and Global Development

Download or read book International Human Rights Social Policy and Global Development written by Gerard McCann and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geopolitical affairs. Including a forward by Albie Sachs, this book presents an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities. It will engage those with an interest in social policy, ethics, politics, international relations, civil society organisations and human rights-based approaches to campaigning and policy development.

Book Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights

Download or read book Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights written by Rob Dickinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection evaluates the crisis of confidence in human rights which underpins understandings of just decision making and liberal democracy.

Book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights written by Hoda Mahmoudi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection brings together a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to offer an interdisciplinary investigation into a discourse, research, and action agenda in pursuit of the universal application of human dignity.

Book Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature

Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature written by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak’s exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies.

Book Perspectives on Human Rights

Download or read book Perspectives on Human Rights written by Abdulrahim P. Vijapur and published by Manak Publication. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at two national seminars, organised by Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard, in 1998.

Book Human Rights in Cross cultural Perspectives

Download or read book Human Rights in Cross cultural Perspectives written by ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm and published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights, by Richard Falk.

Book Human Rights Diplomacy  Contemporary Perspectives

Download or read book Human Rights Diplomacy Contemporary Perspectives written by Michael O'Flaherty and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the notion, tools and challenges of human rights diplomacy. Human rights diplomacy is understood as the utilisation of diplomatic negotiation and persuasion for the specific purpose of promoting and protecting human rights. This book builds on discussions at a high-level workshop on the topic, organised by the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation and the Adam Mickiewicz University of Pozna?, that was held in Venice.

Book Human Rights in Cross Cultural Perspectives

Download or read book Human Rights in Cross Cultural Perspectives written by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights?

Book Human Rights in Africa

Download or read book Human Rights in Africa written by Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.

Book The Legalization of Human Rights

Download or read book The Legalization of Human Rights written by Saladin Meckled-García and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in discourse, treaties and in domestic jurisdictions. However, as this study shows, the debate around this development is actually about human rights law. This text scrutinizes the extent to which legalization shapes the human rights ideal, and surveys its ethical, political and practical repercussions. How does the law influence what we think about rights? What more is there to such rights than their legal protection? These expert contributors approach these questions from a range of perspectives: political theory/moral theory, anthropology, sociology, international law, international politics and political science, to deliver a diversity of methodologies. This book is essential reading for those wishing to develop a clear understanding of the relationship between human rights ideals and laws and for those working toward the fostering of a genuine human rights culture.

Book Social Problems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Bonds
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781315169521
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Social Problems written by Eric Bonds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective 2nd Ed. evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean and a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often violated or left unfilled in the United States. In each chapter, the book offers numerous policy alternatives that could provide a pathway toward the increased fulfillment of rights, while also stressing the important role that nonviolent social movements have had, and must have in the future, in achieving greater justice, dignity, wellbeing, and environmental protection in our society. This edition includes several new chapters on topics of major interest to students, including: The human right to health. Climate change and human rights. Immigration and human rights violations in U.S. society. A new discussion of the #BlackLivesMatter movement Social Problems gives social science students a new way to understand pressing social issues that exist in their own communities"--

Book Human Rights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rajindar Sachar
  • Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9788121208307
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Human Rights written by Rajindar Sachar and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on Human Rights, is a comprehensive collection of articles contributed by an eminent Judge and Senior Advocate. Keenly interested in the solution of human problems. He has intelligently weaved the whole theme into ten chapters with systematic thrust on various problems of minorities, housing political morality and violation of human rights, forced eviction, press a necessary for civilised and human existence, law and custodial torture and role of police, environment in developing countries, economic crisis a global phenomenon, armed conflict to be replaced by basic amenities. This monumental work will be useful for Parliamentarians, social scientists, teachers and students in India and abroad.