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…
Human rights violations are often particularly severe in societies that are undergoing significant political, social, and economic transformations. Improving human rights practices in transition societies should therefore be a central goal for domestic reformers and the international community. This book, a joint effort by political science, sociology, law, and regional studies scholars from va…
There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume investigates whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise which distracts us from the task of developing…
Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian leaders are merely trying to rationalize human rights viola…
The purpose of this volume is thus to untangle some of the key issues surrounding liberation and human rights in a number of central areas of debate.
Global good Samaritans shows why and how some states promote human rights internationally, risking lives, treasure, and diplomatic repercussions to protect helpless foreigners. With six case studies of classic and emerging promoters, this book demonstrates that humanitarian internationalism is a pattern of persistent principled politics. It illustrates how, even in a world of security dilemmas,…
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyew…
Contents: 1. Ours and theirs : Washington's love/hate relationship with terrorist and human rights violators 2. United states use of weapons of mass destruction 3. A rogue state versus the world.
Today the language of Human Rights occupies a pre-eminent position in the various discourses of political philosophy. Having grown out of the liberal traditions of the 18th century, it has evolved into a complex stratagem to explicate the demands of various groups and is now widely recognised. The rights are intimately connected to theories of human nature and theories of social and political o…