What are the main areas of tension/incompatibility between green demands for 'sustainable development' and human rights? How can these be reconciled? 5. ... Can future persons be said to have environmental human rights?
The right to a green future: Human rights, environmentalism, and intergenerational justice. Human Rights Quarterly, 27/4, 1346–64. Hiskes, R. P. (2009). The Human Right to a Green Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Topic Of Human Rights Has Become So Important In The Contemporary World That Almost Every Government, Irrespective Of Its Political And Ideological Philosophies, Places Topmost Priority To The Protection And Promotion Of Human Rights In ...
This volume synthesizes these different approaches and demonstrates how anthropologists have engaged with human rights as committed activists, empirical researchers, and cultural critics.
This book introduces biases into the analysis since descriptions of human rights practices in one or two countries can hardly serve as the basis for valid generalizations.
This report examines democratic oversight of government action against transnational crime, and the roles of parliaments, the executive, the judiciary, and civil society, as well as the need to strike a balance between a democratic ...
Koen De Feyter, who has chaired Amnesty International's Working Group on economic, social and cultural rights, shows the many ways in which rampant market economics in today's world leads to violations of human rights.
This edited volume explores this disagreement, its underlying sources, and related issues in the philosophy of human rights.
American convention on human rights, Human rights foreign policy,
... the Allies are said to have dropped the Declaration behind enemy lines. Wells's Declaration of Rights was widely distributed and translated into not only European languages but also into Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, ...
It includes specialized human rights instruments adopted under the auspices of regional organizations such as the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, the Organization of African Unity, and the Organization for Security ...
This book provides an accessible understanding of what human rights are, how business enterprises may impact human rights for better or for worse, and how such impacts can or should be managed.
"The rights of women, refugees, child laborers, and political prisoners are among the issues debated in this collection of articles and essays ... Contributors from many sides include Hillary Rodham...
Human Rights: Realities and Possibilities examines the impact of these two forces on civil and political rights in two closely associated Western liberal states, Northern and Southern Ireland, and two contrasting European communist states, ...
This collection of readings represents the very best scholarship in this area and shows how the theory, methods, and analysis found in mainstream international relations and political science have been brought to bear on significant ...
By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights.
Primary sources and case studies • Topics ideal for classroom debates ⚫ Ideas for further reading and research Ann ... If you want to find out more about the facts and issues behind the news , try these books in the series : Climate ...
Widely admired and assigned for its clarity and comprehensiveness, this book remains a ‘go-to’ text for students in the social sciences, as well as students of human-rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their ...
This book provides an accessible understanding of what human rights are, how business enterprises may impact human rights for better or for worse and how such impacts can or should be managed.
the prohibition is so absolute may depend on different ways of seeing the issue. For some, it is simply revolting and unacceptable to treat another human being in a way that is so obviously inhuman; for others, it denies the idea that ...