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Joyful Human Rights espouses a joy-centered approach that provides new insights into foundational human rights issues. William Paul Simmons offers a framework--surveying a more comprehensive understanding of human experiences--for theorizing and practicing a more affirmative and robust notion of human rights

Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of.

"Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights, violations of this right are by-and-large seen as the hallmark of autocratic and repressive regimes.This study takes on this dominant paradigm and shows not only that the common assumption that democratic countries effectively limit human rights abuse is simply wrong, but that its widely accepted theory of what drives human rights violations accounts for only a small part of these abuses at best. Haschke shows that despite the increasing numbers of countries that are democracies, and despite growing numbers of national signatories to international treaties prohibiting human rights abuse, the number of allegations has not declined. This book also demonstrates that the bulk of this abuse, which takes the form of torture and ill-treatment, extra-judicial killings, rape, and the like, is committed against marginal members of society, seeming to reveal environments that enable agents of the state to abuse those with whom they are in contact. This violence is found in democracies and dictatorships alike.This work will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, human rights and comparative politics."--Provided by publisher.

Key Facts Key Cases: Human Rights will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Human Rights module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:What human rights apply in the United Kingdom, Europe and other parts of the worldThe European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights ActHow the various rights, freedoms and prohibitions which now pervade English law operateHow rights affect important issues including discrimination, public order, police powers and terrorismHow human rights operate in the global and other continental regional contextsKey Facts Key Cas

This book explores the problematic relationship between human rights and their legal expression. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the authors scrutinise the extent to which legalisation shapes the human rights ideal, and survey the ethical,

Amnesty International, founded in 1961, had its work in Africa in the 1960s dominated by appeals on behalf of Africans opposing colonial rule. Now in the 1990s, the organisation mainly campaigns against human rights violations committed by military regimes and one‐party states.

The author argues that although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the role the United Nations plays in promoting global awareness of human rights has had a positive influence in Africa, their institutional, financial and political impediments undercut the ability of a global system to address adequately the crisis in human rights violations occurring in Africa today. Using case studies from South Africa and Uganda, past difficulties in addressing human rights problems are analyzed and recommendations made for future methodologies including the creation of an African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

Financial resources : present and future / Charles Elliott -- Water supply in developing countries / B.H. Dieterich -- Domestic water supply : right or good? / Gilbert F. White -- Domestic water supplies for rural peoples in the developing countries: the hope of technology / Ian Burton -- Water supplies : the consequences of change / David J. Bradley -- The food potential / N.W. Pirie -- Whither the food and population equation? / W.H. Pawley -- Food supplies for physiologically vulnerable groups / Derrick B. Jelliffe, E.F. Patrice Jelliffe -- Health services and medical education in China : a brief report / O. Mellander -- The control of communicable disease : problems and prospects / Geoffrey Edsall -- Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit aspects of preventive measures against communicable diseases / B. Cvjetanovic -- The basic human right to the means of controlling fertility / Malcolm Potts -- Personal health care : the quest for a human right / Maurice King -- Bottlenecks in implementation : some aspects of the Scandinavian experience / Wenche B. Eide, Mogens Jul, Olof Mellander.

Preliminary Material /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- Preface /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- Contents /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- 1 Culture, Heritage and Human Rights: an Introduction /Francesco Francioni -- 2 The Cross-Cultural Legitimacy of Universal Human Rights: Plural Justification across Normative Divides /Tore Lindholm -- 3 Self-Determination and Cultural Rights /Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- 4 Cultural Rights: a Necessary Corrective to the Nation State /William K. Barth -- 5 Protecting Peoples' Cultural Rights: a Question of Properly Understanding the Notion of States and Nations? /Matthias Ahrén -- 6 Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Rights and the Controversy over Commercial Use of Their Traditional Knowledge /Federico Lenzerini -- 7 The Right of a People to Enjoy Its Culture: towards a Nordic Saami Rights Convention /Martin Scheinin -- 8 Cultural Identity and Legal Status: or, the Return of the Right to Have (Particular) Rights /Eniko Horvath -- 9 Minorities' Right to Maintain and Develop Their Cultures: Legal Implications of Social Science Research /Timo Makkonen -- 10 The Role of the State in Balancing Religious Freedom with Other Human Rights in a Multicultural European Context /Stéphanie Lagoutte and Eva Maria Lassen -- 11 Accessing Culture at the EU Level: an Indirect Contribution to Cultural Rights Protection? /Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- 12 Language Rights as Cultural Rights: a European Perspective by Susanna Mancini and Bruno De Witte /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- 13 The Place of Cultural Rights in the WTO System /John Morijn -- 14 A Right to Cultural Identity in UNESCO /Yvonne Donders -- 15 Political Change and the 'Creative Destruction' of Public Space /Sanford Levinson -- Notes on Contributors /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- Subject Index /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin -- Index of Case Law /Francesco Francioni and Martin Scheinin.

This review article considers Samuel Moyn's book The Last Utopia:Human Rights in History in the context of recent trends in the writing of human rights history. A central debate among historians of human rights, in seekingto account for the genesis and spread of human rights, is how far current humanrights practice demonstrates continuity or radical discontinuity with previousattempts to secure rights. Moyn's discontinuity thesis and the controversysurrounding it exemplify this debate. Whether Moyn is correct is importantbeyond the confines of human rights historiography, with implications for theirmeaning in law, as well as their political legitimacy. This review argues that Moyn's book ultimately fails to convince, for two broad reasons. First, a more balanced judgment would conclude that the history of human rights is both one of continuity and discontinuity. Second, and more importantly, Moyn fails to offer a convincing account of the normativity of human rights. Undertaking a history of human rights requires a deeper engagement with debates on the nature and validity of human rights than Moyn seems prepared to contemplate.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1Objective of the Study -- 2 Approach -- 2.1 Compliance -- 2.2 Effectiveness -- 3 Argument -- 4 Legal Framework -- 5 Methodology -- 6 Structure -- Part 1 A Discourse Analysis of Political Theories - in the Presence of a Paradigm Shift -- 1 Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1 The Four Paradigms or Ideal-Types in the Discipline of International Relations -- Chapter 2 The Different Debates in the Discipline of International Relations -- 1 The First Debate - an Ontological Question -- 2 The Second Debate - a Methodological Shift -- 3 The Inter-paradigmatic Debate -- 4 The Third Debate - an Epistemological Question -- Part 2 Rational Choice Theories and International Human Rights Treaties -- 1 Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 3 Realism: Theory and (the Effectiveness of) International Human Rights Treaties -- 1 An Outdated Realism? -- 2 Situating Coercion, Effects and State Behaviour - the Existential Dialectics of Love and Power -- 3 International Human Rights Law - the Function of a Given Political Order -- 3.1 The Concept of the Lesser Evil -- 3.2 The Reality of Human Right Norms -- 3.3 Consecrating the Primacy of the Political -- Chapter 4 Liberalism: Theory and the Effectiveness of International Human Rights Treaties -- 1 Situating Domestic Politics, Effects and State Behaviour -- 2 Prognoses on the Effects of State Behaviour -- 2.1 The Implementation of the International Human Rights Treaties - the Direct Applicability of Human Rights Treaties -- 2.2 Compliance with Inconvenient Human Rights Treaty Norms -- 2.2.1 Testing Easy-detectable Human Rights Treaty Violations -- 2.2.2 Testing not Easy-Detectable Human Rights Treaty Violations -- 2.2.3 Empirical Evidence and Conflictual Results.