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Finally?a comparative overview of sexuality and human rights issues and law!Human rights issues exist globally, particularly when they have to do with sexuality. Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview focuses on the controversial issues of human sexuality and the legal challenges that LGBT individuals face. Internationally recognized legal experts thoroughly discuss the status of important human rights laws pertaining to sexuality from around the world. Reviewing the progression from historical foundations and shifting public opinions through the most recent landmark legal cases, this i

This paper examines the relationship between some particular political problems with human rights in Australia and philosophical problems with theorising human rights. John Howard's disdain for the United Nations Human Rights Treaty System and Meg Lees discussion of IVF as a basic human right are used to explore the way in which the language or discourse of human rights is used in relation to public policy issues. It is argued that a greater conceptual awareness of the politics of human rights may suggest a more satisfactory manner in which to theorise the human rights discourse.

Food and nutrition -- The international human rights system -- Adequate food is a human right -- Human rights, governance, and law -- Rights/entitlements -- Obligations/commitments -- Accountability mechanisms -- India -- Brazil -- The United States -- Feeding infants -- Feeding infants of HIV-positive mothers -- Water -- Trade -- Refugees -- International humanitarian assistance

China's discourse on human rights has a very rich and colorful content and the construction thereof has its own particular characteristics. Approaches to examine it should be adopted to understand thoroughly both the past and the present and both Chinese and Western methods of integration of theory into practice. Many important human rights factors are embodied in traditional Chinese culture and Confucianism became an important basis of the international consensus on morality. The Chinese representative, Peng-chun Chang made historical contributions to the construction of the international human rights protection system. These represent the core texts in constructing China's human rights discourse, which will play an important role in China's struggle for authority in the international discourse on human rights and dominance in global governance.