Suchergebnisse

Das neue Südafrika nach der Apartheid hat sich strenge Bestimmungen für seine Waffenexportpolitik auferlegt. Die (bedeutende) Rüstungsindustrie des Landes soll nur Waffen in Länder und Regionen liefern dürfen, wenn sichergestellt ist, dass mit ihrer Hilfe keine Menschenrechtsverletzungen begangen oder grundlegende Freiheiten verletzt werden. Obschon die neuen ethischen Grundsätze bei einigen Waffen (Kleinwaffen, Landminen) zur Zurückhaltung beim Export geführt haben, steht die allgemeine Waffenexportpolitik weiterhin im Wiederspruch zu diesen Selbstverpflichtungen. Der Bericht zeichnet die politischen und institutionellen Reformen der Waffenexportpolitik nach, beschreibt, wo sich Profiterwägungen gegenüber Menschenrechtsgrundsätzen durchgesetzt haben und macht Vorschläge, wie Theorie und Praxis in Übereinstimmung gebracht werden könnten. (DÜI-Sbd)

What do human rights look like when we present them as action-based, bottom-up concepts, and not exclusively as legal items? After all, when we narrow down human rights to a legal concept only, we do not do justice to its meaning. In many professions and branches the idea of human rights is used in jargon, as guiding principles and as a source of inspiration. Human rights make a difference, albeit not necessarily as an enforceable legal concept. This facet of human rights - its practical application beyond lawmakers and lawyers - is deeply underexplored and deserves much more attention. Applied human rights are not per se a matter of lawmaking and enforcement only: it can be part of a mission and vision of companies, it is sometimes at the core of artistic work, it can be a leading principle in social work - especially considering the rights of the child, and it is used as a guiding principle in technological innovation. Human rights are not just for lawyers, but also for managers, engineers, social workers, musicians, local governments, law enforcers, designers and business people. However, and not surprisingly, in each branch the impact and implications of human rights differ. Therefore, it is time for a comprehensive textbook in which the idea of human rights is not exclusively explored as a legal concept, but instead discussed from various applied perspectives. In this book, we explore human rights as an applied concept: as something we do. The chapters are written by an international group of leading experts in a wide range of disciplines and themes, including technology development, social studies, pedagogy, business strategy, public governance, the arts, philosophy and law

Draws on the extant international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured. This book contains a comprehensive methodological framework for operationalizing this human rights content into human rights measures. It includes also chapters on the methods, strengths and weaknesses of events-based measures

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The Post-9/11 Climate -- 1 Human Rights Law, Executive Powers, and Torture in the Post-9/11 Era -- 2 Human Rights Advocates in the Post-9/11 Era -- PART II Defining Human Rights in an Era of Controversy -- 3 The Body Counts: Civilian Casualties and the Crisis of Human Rights -- 4 International Human Rights Law: Struggling between Apology and Utopia -- 5 Women's Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Crisis, Challenge, and Opportunity -- PART III Pursuing Human Rights and Prosecuting Violators -- 6 The Center for Justice & Accountability: Holding Human Rights Abusers Responsible in the United States and Abroad -- 7 Human Trafficking and Migration -- 8 Doctors Without Borders and the Moral Economy of Pharmaceuticals -- Conclusion -- Index