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The sovereignty of human rights /

"The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law. Professor Macklem argues that the mission of international human rights law is to mitigate adverse conseq...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macklem, Patrick, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Field missions
  • Human rights as moral concepts
  • Human rights as political concepts
  • Human rights as legal concepts
  • The plan of the book
  • Sovereignty and structure
  • Sovereignty and its exercise
  • Between the national and international
  • Sovereignty and its distribution
  • Human rights : three generations or one?
  • Generations as chronological categories
  • Generations as analytical categories
  • And political rights as monitors of sovereignty's exercise
  • Social and economic rights as monitors of sovereignty's exercise
  • International law at work
  • Labour rights as instrumental rights
  • Labour rights as universal rights
  • Labour rights and the structure of international law
  • The ambiguous appeal of minority rights
  • The moral ambiguities of minority rights
  • The political ambiguities of minority rights
  • The interdependence of sovereignty and minority protection
  • International Indigenous recognition
  • Indigenous territories and the acquisition of sovereignty
  • Indigenous recognition and the international labour organization
  • Indigenous recognition and the united nations
  • The purpose of international Indigenous rights
  • Self-determination in three movements
  • Self-determination and the legality of colonialism
  • The many paradoxes of self-determination
  • Bridging international law and distributive justice
  • Global poverty and the right to development
  • The emergence of the right
  • Implementing the right
  • From global poverty to international law
  • The right to development and the rise and fall of colonialism.