Debating Human Rights
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Author |
: Peter Van Ness |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2003-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134667420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134667426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Human Rights by : Peter Van Ness
Human rights debates can provoke strong reactions, particularly among people of different cultural backgrounds. The debate over Asian values and the use of human rights diplomacy are the most obvious manifestations of divisions between Asia and the West and reflect particular world views and historical legacies. In this new book, scholars from the United States and several Asian countries debate fundamental issues such as 'Asian values', 'peaceful evolution' and cultural imperialism. Provocative and challenging essays analyse the debate between East and West, presenting critical perspectives on globalization and human rights diplomacy. Debating Human Rights is an original contribution to a vital area of debate. It presents a uniquely wide diversity of perspectives on controversial issues and demonstrates how scholars and activists who view the world very differently can nonetheless move these debates forward in a search for common ground.
Author |
: Daniel P. L. Chong |
Publisher |
: Lynne Rienner Pub |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1626370478 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781626370470 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Human Rights by : Daniel P. L. Chong
Even as human rights provide the most widely shared moral language of our time, they also spark highly contested debates among scholars and policymakers. When should states protect human rights? Does the global war on terror necessitate the violation of some rights? Are food, housing, and health care valid human rights? Debating Human Rights introduces the theory and practice of international human rights by examining fourteen controversies in the field. Daniel Chong presents the major arguments on both sides of each debate, encouraging readers to think critically and form their own opinions. Designed for classroom use, the structure of the book makes it easy for students to become familiar with the major political and legal actors in the global human rights system and to understand the practical challenges of protecting civil, political, social, and economic rights.
Author |
: Marina Svensson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742516962 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742516960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Human Rights in China by : Marina Svensson
Drawing on little-known sources, Marina Svensson argues that the concept of human rights was invoked by the Chinese people well before the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, and it has continued to have strong appeal after 1949, both in Taiwan and on the mainland. These largely forgotten debates provide important perspectives on and contrasts to the official PRC line. The author gives particular attention to the issues of power and agency in describing the widely divergent views of official spokespersons, establishment intellectuals and dissidents. Until recently the PRC dismissed human rights as a bourgeois slogan, yet the globalization of human rights and the growing importance of the issue in bilateral and multilateral relations has grown. Thus, the regime has been forced to embrace, or rather appropriate, the language of human rights, an appropriation that continues to be vigorously challenged by dissidents at home and abroad.
Author |
: Dominique Clément |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2018-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771122764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1771122765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Rights Inflation in Canada by : Dominique Clément
Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas framing grievances as human rights violations has become an effective strategy, the increasing appropriation of rights-talk to frame any and all grievances undermines attempts to address systemic social problems. His argument is followed by commentator response from several leading human rights scholars and practitioners in Canada and abroad who bridge the divide between academia, public policy, and practice.
Author |
: John Corvino |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190603076 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190603070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination by : John Corvino
This book explores emerging conflicts about religious liberty and discrimination. In point-counterpoint format, it brings together longtime LGBT rights advocate John Corvino and rising conservative thinkers Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis to debate Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs), anti-discrimination law, and age-old questions about identity, morality, and society.
Author |
: F. Pearl Eliadis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0773543058 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780773543058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Speaking Out on Human Rights by : F. Pearl Eliadis
A critical analysis of the rhetoric and reality surrounding human rights commissions and tribunals, Canada's most contested administrative agencies.
Author |
: Julie Mertus |
Publisher |
: US Institute of Peace Press |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1929223773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781929223770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Rights and Conflict by : Julie Mertus
'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.
Author |
: Benoit Mayer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 473 |
Release |
: 2021-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108840156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108840159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Debating Climate Law by : Benoit Mayer
An innovative volume that covers all the common topics of climate law currently debated in the global academic community.
Author |
: Stephen Hopgood |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2013-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801469305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801469309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Endtimes of Human Rights by : Stephen Hopgood
"We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on aid workers, the torture and 'disappearing' of al-Qaeda suspects by American officials, the flouting of international law by states such as Sri Lanka and Sudan, or the shambles of the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Phnom Penh, the prospect of one world under secular human rights law is receding. What seemed like a dawn is in fact a sunset. The foundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling."—from The Endtimes of Human Rights In a book that is at once passionate and provocative, Stephen Hopgood argues, against the conventional wisdom, that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive. A shift in the global balance of power away from the United States further undermines the foundations on which the global human rights regime is based. American decline exposes the contradictions, hypocrisies and weaknesses behind the attempt to enforce this regime around the world and opens the way for resurgent religious and sovereign actors to challenge human rights. Historically, Hopgood writes, universal humanist norms inspired a sense of secular religiosity among the new middle classes of a rapidly modernizing Europe. Human rights were the product of a particular worldview (Western European and Christian) and specific historical moments (humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, the aftermath of the Holocaust). They were an antidote to a troubling contradiction—the coexistence of a belief in progress with horrifying violence and growing inequality. The obsolescence of that founding purpose in the modern globalized world has, Hopgood asserts, transformed the institutions created to perform it, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and recently the International Criminal Court, into self-perpetuating structures of intermittent power and authority that mask their lack of democratic legitimacy and systematic ineffectiveness. At their best, they provide relief in extraordinary situations of great distress; otherwise they are serving up a mixture of false hope and unaccountability sustained by “human rights” as a global brand. The Endtimes of Human Rights is sure to be controversial. Hopgood makes a plea for a new understanding of where hope lies for human rights, a plea that mourns the promise but rejects the reality of universalism in favor of a less predictable encounter with the diverse realities of today’s multipolar world.
Author |
: Baogang He |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2021-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000470543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000470547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis China and Human Rights in North Korea by : Baogang He
By exploring the "China factor" in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chinese development-based approach to human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The contributors to this book treat the relevance of the Chinese experience to the DPRK seriously and evaluate how it might apply to easing North Korean human rights issues.They engage with the debate about the relevance of the developmental or development-based approach to North Korea. In doing so, they problematise, scrutinise and contextualise the development-based approach in Northeast Asia, including China, and examine different responses to the developmental approach and the influence of domestic politics on these responses. A valuable contribution to discussions on possible ways forward for human rights in North Korea and an insightful critique of the Northeast Asian development model more broadly.