International human rights, now more than ever, is at the forefront of global politics and encompasses a broad and diverse range of subjects, issues and geographical jurisdictions.
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine victims, the moral imperative is clear: this is a deeply compassionate appeal to confront pov…
Discussion, analysis, ideas, and thoughtful argument may not be enough by themselves to achieve fundamental reform, but without them helpful reform of any kind is out of the question. The contribution Mulya Lubis makes here to a serious debate will no doubt grow when his book is translated, as I hope it will be, into Indonesian. It is significant as well, however, in English, for a wider audien…
Contents: - Section one: Democracy, terror and torture - Section two: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva conventions, and international law - Section three: On torture - Section four: Looking forward etc.
New technology offers opportunities both to expand and to limit the freedom to communicate and the opportunity to protect private life. They enables anonymous transactions over the Internet so that individuals can obtain access to information and purchase products without disclosing actual identity. This book attempts to describe the state of human dignity in the digitised world. It will serve …
This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a col- lective capacity for human-rights enforcement.
This primer introduces the concept of RTD as well as discusses its practical application in the Indian setting. It is divided accordingly into two sections, the first of which traces the origins and the evolution of the idea of RTD. This section identifies the defining parameters and content of RTD and focuses especially on the three rights―the rights to food, education and health―that have…
This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights, and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being the defining aspect of many people's lives and a central concern of sociology.
Human Rights stand for dignified existence of human beings. They are fundamental and inalienable. Under the pioneering efforts of the United Nations, global concern has been focussed on the observance of Human Rights by the member States. A massive global campaign is under way to create an awareness for the observance of Human Rights. This book explains in simple terms the historical evolution …
Rein Müllerson defines human rights diplomacy as the use of foreign policy instruments in order to promote human rights, as well as the use of human rights issues for the sake of other foreign policy aims. The book covers topics such as the relation between human rights and international stability; the conundrum of cultural relativism; the use of force to settle human rights issues; and how vi…