Download or read book The Arab Charter of Human Rights written by Ahmed Mohamed El Demery and published by Council on International Law and Politics. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we find common ground between Sharia law and international standards of human rights? What would a moderate Islamic human rights theory look like that both respects Sharia principles and international principles of human rights? The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Arab Charter on Human Rights as the primary tool for the protection of human rights in the Arab countries. The author presents the Arab Charter in the context of its sources and objectives, embedded in Sharia law, which is the foundation on which the legal systems of most Arab countries are built. Among the questions answered in this volume are the following: To what extent are human rights inherent in Sharia? To what extent is Sharia compatible with international standards of human rights? How can we reduce tension and promote cooperation between the Western and the Arab world by encouraging a constructive dialogue on human rights? Does the Arab Charter provide a sufficient level of human rights protection today, in line with international standards of human rights? If not, what can and should be done to promote and protect human rights more effectively via the Arab Charter without putting it in conflict with Sharia? Should the Arab Charter and its institutions look to the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights and/or the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms for inspiration? What are specific steps that could and should be taken to strengthen the effectiveness of the Arab Charter and its institutions? The author is a judge at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice (currently seconded to the Ministry of Justice in Qatar). He served as Chief Prosecutor at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Egypt. He was also a representative of the Egyptian Public Prosecution at the National Coordinating Committee for Combating Corruption. The author holds a Bachelor of Laws from Cairo University, as well as an LL.M. and a J.S.D. degree from Saint Thomas University, Miami, Florida. He was a Fulbright scholar at Saint Thomas University as well as a Chevening Scholar at Oxford University. He is a visiting lecturer at a number of universities in Cairo.
Download or read book The Arab Charter on Human Rights written by Paroula Naskou-Perrakē and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arab Charter on Human Rights written by UN. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arab Charter on Human Rights written by Taghreed. A. Jaber and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 written by د. هشام باناجه and published by Awraaq Llnashr. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right to life is the most precious thing owned by the human being, without it the human being does not exist. We cannot imagine talking about human rights if it did not guarantee the right to life of every human being.
Download or read book Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law written by Anver M. Emon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years. The usual starting point has been to test one system by the standards of the other, asking is Islamic law 'compatible' with international human rights standards, or vice versa. This approach quickly ends in acrimony and accusations of misunderstanding. By overlaying one set of norms on another we overlook the deeply contextual nature of how legal rules operate in a society, and meaningful comparison and discussion is impossible. In this volume, leading experts in Islamic law and international human rights law attempt to deepen the understanding of human rights and Islam, paving the way for a more meaningful debate. Focusing on central areas of controversy, such as freedom of speech and religion, gender equality, and minority rights, the authors examine the contextual nature of how Islamic law and international human rights law are legitimately formed, interpreted, and applied within a community. They examine how these fundamental interests are recognized and protected within the law, and what restrictions are placed on the freedoms associated with them. By examining how each system recognizes and limits fundamental freedoms, this volume clears the ground for exploring the relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law on a sounder footing. In doing so it offers a challenging and distinctive contribution to the literature on the subject, and will be an invaluable reference for students, academics, and policy-makers engaged in the legal and religious debates surrounding Islam and the West.
Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century written by Gordon Brown and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Construction of Fatherhood written by Alice Margaria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles one of the most topical socio-legal issues of today: how the law - in particular, the European Court of Human Rights - is responding to shifting practices and ideas of fatherhood in a world that offers radical possibilities for the fragmentation of the conventional father figure and therefore urges decisions upon what kind of characteristics makes someone a legal father. It explores the Court's reaction to changing family and, more specifically, fatherhood realities. In so doing, it engages in timely conversations about the rights and responsibilities of men as fathers. By tracing values and assumptions underpinning the Court's views on fatherhood, this book contributes to highlight the expressive powers of the ECtHR and, more specifically, the latter's role in producing and legitimising ideas about parenting and, more generally, in influencing how family life is regulated and organised.
Download or read book Middle East and North Africa Region Redrafting the Arab Charter on Human Rights written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic charter; human rights; law; analytical approach.
Download or read book The Human Rights Turn and the Paradox of Progress in the Middle East written by Mishana Hosseinioun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East’s place in the world by chronicling the region’s contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace, prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only possible for all universally, it is inevitable.
Download or read book The International Dimensions of Human Rights African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights p 616 written by Philip Alston and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights and Civilizations written by Gustavo Gozzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the origin and ways of Western hegemony over other civilizations across the world.
Download or read book Human Rights International Protection Monitoring Enforcement written by Janusz Symonides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series of volumes prepared by UNESCO for teaching human rights at higher education level comes to a successful conclusion with the publication of this volume. Human Rights: International Protection, Monitoring, Enforcement takes an institutional approach to the international protection of human rights, examining first the United Nations system, which may be seen as universal, and then analysing regional systems of protection. An indispensable source of information on the protection of human rights, the volume can also be employed as a practical guide to the use of existing procedures in the defence of human rights.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law written by Conor Gearty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.
Download or read book The United Nations Commission on Human Rights written by John P. Pace and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, John P. Pace provides the most complete account to-date of the United Nations human rights programme, both in substance and in chronological breadth. Pace worked at the heart of this programme for over thirty years, including as the Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, and Coordinator of the World Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Vienna in 1993. He traces the issues taken up by the Commission after its launch in 1946, and the methods undertaken to enhance absorption and domestication of international human rights standards. He lays out the special procedures carried out by the UN, and the emergence of international human rights law. The book then turns to the establishment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the mainstreaming of human rights across the United Nations system, eventually leading to the establishment of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission in 2006. Many of the problems we face today, including conflict, poverty, and environmental issues, have their roots in human rights problems. This book identifies what has been done at the international level in the past, and points towards what still needs to be done for the future.
Download or read book The International Human Rights Movement written by Aryeh Neier and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the international human rights movement as seen by one of its founders During the past several decades, the international human rights movement has had a crucial hand in struggles against totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity. Today, it grapples with the war against terror and subsequent abuses of government power. In The International Human Rights Movement, Aryeh Neier—a leading figure and a founder of the contemporary movement—offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of this global force, from its beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to its essential place in world affairs today. Neier combines analysis with personal experience, and gives an insider’s perspective on the movement’s goals, the disputes about its mission, its rise to international importance, and the challenges to come. This updated edition includes a new preface by the author.
