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This report presents five case studies on EU Human Rights Dialogues (HRDs). The case studies concern the HRDs with the African Union, China, India, Morocco and Peru. Building on the findings of the previous reports in Work Package 3 of the FRAME project, the aim of this report is to explore how domestic and organisation-based conceptions of human rights, democracy and rule of law emerge in HRDs and what consequences these conceptions entails for the HRDs' goals. The report starts with a description of the methodology used (Chapter II). Next, Chapter III puts HRDs in context by examining their institutional setting. The Chapter specifically focuses on three key issues: respect for sovereignty and the equality of participants; transparency; and the priorities of the dialogues. Chapter IV is dedicated to the case studies. The Chapter is divided in two parts: the first part focuses on General Human Rights Dialogues and the second on Formal Human Rights Dialogues. General HRD's are Dialogues of a general nature based on regional or bilateral treaties, agreements or conventions or strategic partnerships dealing systematically with the issue of human rights. The first case study in this category concerns India. This is an elaborate study. It fills a gap in the scholarly literature since the EUIndia HRD has so far been little researched. One of the main difficulties that the case study highlights with the HRD is that the EU is conditioned by an essentially Eurocentric world-view about India. The next case study in this first part of the Chapter concerns Peru. The research shows that although the EU's conceptions of human rights differ in some respects from the Peruvian, the Dialogue has been productive. The last case study in the part of General HRD's concerns European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), more specifically Morocco. This too is an elaborate case study which presents a much-needed addition to the academic literature. It details the institutional setting of the dialogue and describes to what extent diverging ...

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 What is a Human Right? -- Rights: general, positive, moral, human -- Understanding human rights -- 'Three generations' of rights -- Conclusion -- 2 A Brief History of Human Rights -- Introduction -- Natural rights in the eighteenth century -- More on the Enlightenment -- Social and economic rights in the nineteenth century -- The Second World War and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Conclusion -- 3 Philosophical Foundations for Human Rights -- Introduction -- The interest view -- Human dignity -- Personhood -- Sceptics: MacIntyre and Rorty -- Conclusion -- 4 A Political Conception of Human Rights -- Introduction -- Human rights in international legal and political practice -- The political view -- Criticisms of the political view -- Conclusion -- 5 Religion and Human Rights -- Introduction -- A secular or religious source for moral authority? -- Religious freedom and secular liberalism -- Islam and human rights -- Conclusion -- 6 Universalism and Relativism -- Introduction -- Types of relativism and the 'Asian values' debate -- Universalism and the self -- Feminist and flexible universalisms -- Conclusion -- 7 Minority Groups and Minority Rights -- Introduction -- Liberal multiculturalism -- Critics of liberal multiculturalism: egalitarianism, exit and essentialism -- Conclusion -- 8 Global Poverty and Human Rights -- Introduction -- Manifesto rights, subsistence and security -- Pogge, poverty and rights -- Poverty, agency and harm -- Conclusion -- 9 Environmental Human Rights? -- Introduction -- Ways of conceptualizing environmental human rights -- Environmental values and human rights -- Climate change and human rights -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Global State of Human Rights -- 1: Global Human Rights: An Overview -- 2: The European Union Is Falling Short on Human Rights Commitments -- 3: Bangladesh Is Failing to Address Human Rights Abuses -- 4: Tibetans Are Suffering from Human Rights Abuses by China -- 5: The Arab World Is Experiencing a Deterioration of Human Rights -- 6: Israel Is Violating International Law and the Human Rights of Palestinians -- 7: The United States Must Face Its Own Record of Human Rights Abuses -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Human Rights and Politics -- 1: Britain's New Government Must Make Human Rights a Top Priority -- 2: Myanmar's Government Must Be Pressured to Hold Fair Elections -- 3: China Must Stop Supporting Authoritarian Regimes -- 4: Israel Violates Human Rights and the European Union Is Complicit -- 5: North Korea Must Shut Down Its Concentration Camps -- 6: The European Union Should Support Democracy and Human Rights in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -- 7: The Honduras Truth Commission Faces a Daunting Task -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Human Rights and Minority Populations -- 1: Global Caste-Based Discrimination Should Be Treated as a Human Rights Violation -- 2: China Continues to Tyrannize the Uyghur Minority -- 3: Estonia Is Discriminating Against Ethnic Russians -- 4: Sudan Violates the Human Rights of Its Citizens -- 5: Iranian Persecution of the Bahá'í Is an Injustice and Rejection of True Iranian Identity -- 6: Israel Must Safeguard the Rights of All People With in Its Borders -- 7: Sri Lanka Tries to Escape Accountability for War Crimes Against the Tamil People -- 8: Developing Countries Have a Poor Record on Gay Rights

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Part I The United Nations System -- 1 United Nations Mechanisms to Promote and Protect Human Rights -- Introduction -- Principles of the Machinery -- Human Rights Machinery -- The Main Structure of the Machinery -- Policy-making Bodies -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- Treaty Monitoring Bodies 30 -- Non-conventional Procedures: Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups -- Procedures -- Reporting under Human Rights Treaties -- Procedures Related to Human Rights Violations -- Non-governmental Organizations' Contribution to the Work of the United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The International Labour Organization's System of HumanRights Protection -- Introduction -- The ILO's History and Structures -- Tripartism: a Fundamental Concept -- The Concept of Fundamental Human Rights in the ILO -- Definition of Fundamental Human Rights in the ILO -- International Labour Standards: Adoption and Supervision -- The Adoption of Standards -- The ILO's Supervisory System -- The Committee on Freedom of Association -- Follow-up to the Declaration -- The Relationship Between ILO Human Rights Standards and Other United Nations Instruments on Human Rights -- Other Work with International Organizations on Human Rights -- Links Between Technical Cooperation and ILO Standards -- The Impact of the ILO's Work for Human Rights -- Cases of Progress: More than 2000 Noted in 35 Years -- The Effect Given to Recommendations of the Committee on Freedom of Association -- How Non-governmental Organizations Can Best Make Use of the ILO -- The Need to Adapt -- Reporting Obligations -- The Universality of Application of Standards -- Globalization and Workers' Rights