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Climate change is the defining challenge of the 21st century. The United States government is currently ignoring the problem, but wishful thinking alone will not keep global mean temperature rise below 2ºC. This Article proposes a way forward. It advises environmental decision-makers to use human rights norms to guide them as they make decisions under United States law. By reframing their discretion through a human rights lens, decision-makers can use their existing authority to respond to the super-wicked problem of climate change

1: Foreword; 2: Cosmopolitan Vision, Civilised Sensibility, and Moral Passion: In Honour of Clemens N. Nathan (1933-2015); 3: List of Contributors; 4: Introduction to the Volume; 5: Section I: Reflections on the Foundation Blocks, the Pediment which Binds the Structure Together and Several Cross-Cutting Themes; 6: Section II: The Rights of an Individual; 7: Section III: The Rights of Individual in Civil and Political Society; 8: Section IV: Spiritual, public and political freedoms; 9: Section V: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 10: Section VI: The Challenge of Hope; 11: Appendices; 12: Index

Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption -- in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a major impact on policing, challenging many of the assumptions about how policing is carried out. This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to the key issues surrounding ethics in policing, linking this to recent developments and new human rights legislation. It sets out a powerful case fo

In the spring of 2011, I traveled to the Republic of Korea under a faculty ty exchange grant sponsored by the Università Ca' Foscari and Ewha Women's University, Seoul, to study the migration of Koreans escaping well documented starvation and human rights abuses in North Korea and their integration in the South. I was generously assisted by colleagues at Ewha Women's University, who arranged interviews for me with government officials, NGOs and other social institutions. I was also given substantial help by Korean and international journalists and from the local office of the UNHCR. Since my return, I have continued to research the issue, and the re­port presented here should be considered very much a work in progress

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Knowledge Transmission and Universality of Man in Global Society -- The Other and the Paradoxes of Universalism -- Religion, Human Rights and Political Conflicts -- Europe: Common Values and a Common Identity -- The Public Sphere and Political Space -- America and Europe: Carl Schmitt and Alexis de Tocqueville -- Identity and Human Rights: A Glance at Europe from Afar -- Human Rights, Universalism and Cosmopolitanism -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

Argues that the recent calls for articulating women's rights as human rights can be successful only by misrecognition of the geopolitical context of human rights internationalism & the nationalisms that are sustained by it. It is only on the level of universalized constructions of "women" as a category & the generalized invocations of oppression by "global feminism's" "American" practitioners that such discourses of rights become powerful; thus, policy & action require addressing localized & transnational specificities that created gendered inequalities. Even in national contexts such as in India, generalized invocations of women's human rights have not been useful since hegemonic forms of religion & culture have also been oppressive to women in minority communities. Concepts of economic & social justice rather than rights may work better in such cases. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.