Human Rights: Universality and Diversity
Author: Eva Brems
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-18
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9004481958
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The Human Rights Council
Author: Damian Etone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-27
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0429594348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the engagement of African states with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. This human rights mechanism is known for its pacific and non-confrontational approach to monitoring state human rights implementation. Coming at the end of the first three cycles of the UPR, the work offers a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of African states’ engagement and its potential impact. It develops a framework which comprehensively evaluates aspects of states’ UPR engagement, such as the pre-review national consultation process and implementation of UPR recommendations which, until recently, have received little attention. The book considers the potential for acculturation in engagement with the UPR and unpacks the impact of politics, regionalism, cultural relativism, rights ritualism and civil society. The work provides a useful guide for policymakers and international human rights law practitioners, as well as a valuable resource for international legal and international relations academics and researchers.
Human Rights in Africa
Author: Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107016312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica and the Universality of Human Rights
Author: Bertrand G. Ramcharan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9004520643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica and the Universality of Human Rights offers a succinct but comprehensive treatment of the human rights systems and machinery applicable in Africa. It consolidates a wide range of materials and sources in a comprehensive way that will be of value to teachers, students, scholars and activists. It makes clear that, notwithstanding difficulties experienced on the ground, African governments, peoples, and institutions together have repeatedly expressed their commitment to the universality of human rights, the corner-stone of the contemporary international order.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century
Author: Gordon Brown
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1783742216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community? Since 1948, the Declaration has stood as a beacon and a standard for a better world. Yet the work of making its ideals real is far from over. Hideous and systemic human rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate around the world. Too many people, particularly those in power, are hostile to human rights or indifferent to their claims. Meanwhile, our global interdependence deepens. Bringing together world leaders and thinkers in the fields of politics, ethics, and philosophy, the Commission set out to develop a common understanding of the meaning of global citizenship – one that arises from basic human rights and empowers every individual in the world. This landmark report affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to renew the 1948 enterprise, and the very ideal of the human family, for our day and generation.
The Concept of Human Rights in Africa
Author: Issa G. Shivji
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1870784022
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Human Rights in Africa
Author: ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK" This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights. "
Rescuing Human Rights
Author: Hurst Hannum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-02-14
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1108417485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.
Human Rights at the UN
Author: Roger Normand
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0253000114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman rights activists Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national rivalries, and bureaucratic politics that molded the international system of human rights law. The book emphasizes the period before and after the creation of the UN, when human rights ideas and proposals were shaped and transformed by the hard-edged realities of power politics and bureaucratic imperatives. It also analyzes the expansion of the human rights framework in response to demands for equitable development after decolonization and organized efforts by women, minorities, and other disadvantaged groups to secure international recognition of their rights.
