Download or read book Making Rights Work written by Penny Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this edited collection of essays explores various perspectives on making rights work in South Africa, Canada, the USA and the UK, along with pieces on gender, political, LGBT and British legal rights. The volume was inspired by recent strides forward at the time, including the South African Constitution adopted on the 8th of May 1996, and sought to provide a snapshot of rights debates at the time.
Download or read book Evidence for Hope written by Kathryn Sikkink and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.
Download or read book Making Human Rights a Reality written by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights. In many countries, though, there is little relationship between international law and the actual protection of human rights on the ground. Making Human Rights a Reality takes a fresh look at why it's been so hard for international law to have much impact in parts of the world where human rights are most at risk. Emilie Hafner-Burton argues that more progress is possible if human rights promoters work strategically with the group of states that have dedicated resources to human rights protection. These human rights "stewards" can focus their resources on places where the tangible benefits to human rights are greatest. Success will require setting priorities as well as engaging local stakeholders such as nongovernmental organizations and national human rights institutions. To date, promoters of international human rights law have relied too heavily on setting universal goals and procedures and not enough on assessing what actually works and setting priorities. Hafner-Burton illustrates how, with a different strategy, human rights stewards can make international law more effective and also safeguard human rights for more of the world population.
Download or read book International Women s Rights Law and Gender Equality written by Ramona Vijeyarasa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women’s rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world’s leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and international law, it provides a primer of theory alongside tangible and practical solutions to fulfil the promise of the law to deliver equality between men and women. Part I outlines what progress has been made to date on eradicating gender inequality, and insights into the law’s potential as one lever in the global struggle for equality. Parts II and III go on to explore concrete areas of law, with case studies from multiple jurisdictions that examine how well domestic legislation is working for women. The authors bring their critical lens to areas of law often considered from a gender perspective – gender-based violence, women’s reproductive health, labour and gender equality quotas – while bringing much-needed analysis to issues often ignored in gender debates, such as taxation, environmental justice and good governance. Part IV seeks to move from a theoretical goal of greater accountability to a practical one. It explores both accountability for international women’s rights norms at the domestic level and the potential of feminist approaches to legislation to deliver laws that work for women. Written for students, academics, legislators and policymakers engaged in international women’s rights law, gender equality, government accountability and feminist legal theory, this book has tremendous transformative potential to drive forward legal change towards the eradication of gender inequality.
Download or read book Evidence for Hope written by Kathryn Sikkink and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. They point out that Guantánamo is still open, the Arab Spring protests have been crushed, and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But respected human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to pessimistic doubts about human rights laws and institutions. She demonstrates that change comes slowly and as the result of struggle, but in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Attacks on the human rights movement's credibility are based on the faulty premise that human rights ideas emerged in North America and Europe and were imposed on developing southern nations. Starting in the 1940s, Latin American leaders and activists were actually early advocates for the international protection of human rights. Sikkink shows that activists and scholars disagree about the efficacy of human rights because they use different yardsticks to measure progress. Comparing the present to the past, she shows that genocide and violence against civilians have declined over time, while access to healthcare and education has increased dramatically. Cognitive and news biases contribute to pervasive cynicism, but Sikkink's investigation into past and current trends indicates that human rights is not in its twilight. Instead, this is a period of vibrant activism that has made impressive improvements in human well-being. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how these essential advances can be supported and sustained for decades to come.
Download or read book Making Rights Work written by Penny Smith and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search for equality, John Hucker
Download or read book Making the constitution work for all americans written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Human Rights Work Globally written by Anthony Woodiwiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many peoples lives and a central concern of sociology.
Download or read book Making Equal Rights Real written by Jody Heymann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While laws exist in many nations to guarantee equal rights across gender, race, and ethnicity, they are often not implemented. Around the world, discrimination, biases, and avoidable barriers affect children's chances to access education and health care, and adults' chances to attain jobs, earn equal pay, and hold leadership roles in countries. Moreover, in some countries, it is legal to markedly discriminate based on characteristics ranging from religion to sexual orientation to disability. Making Equal Rights Real brings together leaders from around the world who have been working effectively to increase equal economic and social rights, ranging from rights in the workplace to property ownership and education. The contributors tell the detailed stories of effective approaches to implementing equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities in North America, women in Africa, children in the Middle East, and sexual minorities in Asia. They also describe approaches taken around the world to increase equal rights for people living in poverty, for those living with disabilities, and for all people seeking the information they need to hold their government accountable for implementing everyone's rights. The book addresses what can be done by policymakers, civil society, non-governmental organizations, lawyers seeking to implement equal rights legislation, and advocates working in the community, as well as those developing constitutions and negotiating international agreements.
Download or read book Making Human Rights work in Fragile States written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Know Your Rights and how to Make Them Work for You written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know your rights is the book that empowers you to resolve the dilemma, now and forever.
Download or read book How to Make Your Credit Card Rights Work for You written by Franshone Winn Esq and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Use Your Credit Card Rights Work For You is a clear, concise, and comprehensive guide of credit card rights and how to use them. The book is a must read for credit card holders of all ages and also those who are applying for a credit card. The book explains your rights when you apply for a credit card, when you have a credit card, and when you have a dispute with the credit card issuer. The book also explains what to do when you feel your credit card rights are Violated. Readers of this book will know how to use their credit card rights to save money and reduce debt.
Download or read book Rights Work Make Them Real written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women s Rights in Theory and Practice written by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and published by . This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, proponents of gender equality began thinking creatively about how to redefine the legal sphere so as to use it as a tool in eliminating gender discrimination. One aid in this endeavor was an annual National Conference on Women and the Law (1970-1992), which students at a number of law schools organized to articulate the problem and consider the kind of public policies that might address it. The academics contributed their theoretical analyses; the practitioners assessed the theories' utility as aids to policy-making. Many of the ideas behind both the early work in feminist jurisprudence and subsequent litigation and policy-making in the area of gender equality were honed at the conferences. Although both public policy and the concerns of equal rights proponents continued to develop in the last years of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, practitioners and scholars organized no similar large-scale thinking and strategizing sessions. Many among the new generation of academics working in the gender equality field, some without any background in practice, lack the same kind of ties to practitioners - who in turn are cut off from much stimulating new thinking among scholars. The Division of U.S. Studies therefore decided to bring feminist scholars together with attorneys from organizations such as the ACLU Women's Rights Project, the National Women's Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, NOW LDEF, the National Partnership for Women & Families, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the Mexican- American LDEF, and the National Employment Law Project. The purpose of the conference was to foster communication between academics and practitioners, thereby enriching scholarship and giving litigators both ideas for courtroom strategies and a network of scholars upon whom to call in the future. A planning committee of scholars and activists decided that the conference should concentrate on three major areas: employment, violence against women, and poverty and welfare. An additional session on the problems for gender equality litigation created by the New Federalism and the promises inherent in international human rights concepts and instruments, which cut across the three major areas, was included. Given the lessons that can be learned from the past, presentations were also scheduled on the litigation that was done during the last three decades of the twentieth century. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg graciously agreed to speak about her pioneering litigation before that Court during her days as an advocate. The proceedings of the conference are printed in the pages that follow. A number of themes run through much of the discussion. One is the continuing necessity for scholars and activists to work across fields. Conference participants referred frequently during and after the sessions, for example, to the importance of having people who work in the area of welfare listen to people whose expertise lies in the domestic violence field, and vice versa, and of having specialists in both those areas interact with employment law experts.
Download or read book Making the Law Work for Everyone Report of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor Making the law work for everyone written by and published by UN. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the world's people live outside the law and thus do not have a chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty. This causes national and global stagnation. The remedy for the exclusion is inclusion through Legal Empowerment of the Poor which is important economically, politically, socially, and morally. The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2005) was the first global initiative to focus on the link between exclusion, poverty, and the law, and was hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York. This first report of the Commission covers the following topics: making the law work for everyone; the four pillars of legal empowerment; legal empowerment is smart politics and good economics; agenda for change and implementation strategies. The report is based on research, analysis and consultations in more than 20 developing countries and encourages debates and discussions towards realisation of Millennium Development Goals.
Download or read book Rights at Work written by Michael W. McCann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-07-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades. Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with over 140 union and feminist activists, McCann shows that, even when the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal discourse--the understanding of legal rights and their constraints--for defining and advancing their cause.
Download or read book Making the Human Rights Treaties Work written by Andrew Byrnes (course instructor.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
