Making Human Rights A Reality

Author : Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400846285
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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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 296 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.

Author : Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192715
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801487767
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice written by Jack Donnelly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
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Download or read book Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jayson S. Lamchek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492339
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism written by Jayson S. Lamchek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

Author : Lisa Vanhala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949712X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Rights a Reality? written by Lisa Vanhala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves.

Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783742216
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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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 146 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.

Author : Emilie Hafner-Burton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155364
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Human Rights a Reality written by Emilie Hafner-Burton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067498482X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Enough written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice. In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to fulfill their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its original European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global scale. But their plans were foiled as a neoliberal faith in markets triumphed instead. Moyn places the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift from the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Exploring why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside enduring and exploding inequality, and why activists came to seek remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to achieve a humane and equitable world.

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ISBN 13 : 9780862103811
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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