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Human rights : the hard questions /

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested polit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Holder, Cindy (Editor ), Reidy, David A., 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Reidy, David.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
  • 1. Human rights and human nature / Chris Brown
  • 2. Universalism and particularism in human rights / Neil Walker
  • 3. Are human rights universal? / Rex Martin
  • pt. II HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS RELATE TO GROUP RIGHTS AND CULTURE?
  • 4. The significance of cultural differences for human rights / Alison Dundes Renteln
  • 5. Groups and human rights / Peter Jones
  • 6. Entangled: family, religion and human rights / Ayelet Shachar
  • 7. What does cultural difference require of human rights? / Claudio Corradetti
  • pt. III WHAT DO HUMAN RIGHTS REQUIRE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY?
  • 8. What do human rights require of the global economy? Beyond a narrow legal view / Adam Mcbeth
  • 9. Universal human rights in the global political economy / Tony Evans
  • 10. Human rights and global equal opportunity: inclusion not provision / Ann E. Cudd
  • pt. IV HOW DO HUMAN RIGHTS RELATE TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY?
  • 11. Human rights in a hostile climate / Stephen M. Gardiner
  • 12. A human rights approach to energy, poverty and gender inequality / Gail Karlsson
  • 13. Pollution wolves in scientific sheep's clothing: why environmental-risk assessors and policy-makers ignore the "hard issues" of the human rights of pollution victims / Kristin Shrader-Frechette
  • pt. V IS THERE A HUMAN RIGHT TO DEMOCRACY?
  • 14. Is there a human right to democracy? / Hilary Charlesworth
  • 15. The human right to democracy and its global import / Carol C. Gould
  • 16. An egalitarian argument for a human right to democracy / Thomas Christiano
  • pt. VI WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT?
  • 17. Is it ever reasonable for one state to invade another for humanitarian reasons? The "declaratory tradition" and the UN Charter / Julie Mertus
  • 18. Conflicting responsibilities to protect human rights / Larry May
  • 19. Searching for the hard questions about women's human rights / Marysia Zalewski
  • 20. Are human rights possible after conflict? Diary of a survivor / Erin Baines
  • pt. VII ARE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESSIVE?
  • 21. Moral progress and human rights / Allen Buchanan
  • 22. Human rights and moral agency / Mark Goodale
  • 23. Gender mainstreaming human rights: a progressive path for gender equality? / Laura Parisi.