Domesticating Human Rights
Domesticating Human Rights

Author: Fidèle Ingiyimbere

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-26

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3319576216

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This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture. Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.

The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights
The Domestic Institutionalisation of Human Rights

Author: Stéphanie Lagoutte

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-19

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 100043477X

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This book explores recent developments pointing towards a ‘domestic institutionalisation of human rights’, composed of converging international trends prescribing the setting up of domestic institutions, and the need for a national human rights systems approach. Building on new compliance theories, innovative arrangements have resolutely appeared around the turn of the millennium and some are now legally enshrined in human rights treaties. In their introduction, the editors capture these developments, their main elements and key points of debate. They outline a research agenda aimed at structuring and generating further attention from both academics and practitioners. As a stepping stone, the book singles out the purposeful attempt by the United Nations and others to frame these trends around the concept of ‘National Human Rights System’. The chapters assess various models and cases put forward for such systems. Each chapter highlights the specific forms of institutions being promoted and their intended domestic interactions, and discusses how these institutions are leveraged and strengthened by international bodies. Authors critically review their implications for the future of human rights, paving the way for additional research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

What Human Rights Are Not (or Not Only). a Negative Path to Human Rights Practice
What Human Rights Are Not (or Not Only). a Negative Path to Human Rights Practice

Author: Isabel Trujillo

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781631179341

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The book aims at offering an overview of the current human rights practice, indicating some main specific features able to provide a meaningful explanation of the complex phenomenon. It attempts to highlight its moral, social and legal dimensions, its theoretical and institutional origin, but also the specificity of the current phase of the protection of rights, and its uses in the domestic and international domain. It aims at showing the connection between the idea of law as a social practice and the practice of human rights, the former working as explanatory framework, the latter characterized by specific features. The original point is the negative method of defining the subject: "negative" because the idea of human rights as a social practice is not compatible with a rigid classificatory semantic. From the theoretical perspective, human rights as implemented today are only partially in a continuum with the revolutionary proclamations (French and American). The Holocaust introduces a new approach: they are not vindications of "our" rights, but of the rights of others, those who are at risk or whose rights are being violated. This simple idea explains many aspects of the current human rights practice: the necessity of identifying the duty holders, the way of understanding the international community and the role of rights in it, the forms of protection and promotion, the dynamic against discriminations. And it allows explaining also some possible misunderstandings, like the idea that human rights are natural rights, or tricks for humanitarian intervention, or cultural biased. Human rights' key notes are normativity, universality and globality. The notion of dignity and the need of specification of rights in the concrete conditions of individuals exclude minimalist accounts of rights, and the idea that some rights are less urgent or important than others. Human rights as a practice are compatible with a high number of theoretical perspectives and with different political doctrines, even though they have a cultural origin. They are not compatible with hegemonic dominations and with war. They are criteria of legitimacy and justice, but they are not the solution for everything. The book is divided in four sections: Concept, Identity, Content, and Uses.

The First Domestication
The First Domestication

Author: Raymond Pierotti

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0300231679

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A riveting look at how dog and humans became best friends, and the first history of dog domestication to include insights from indigenous peoples In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity’s best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describe coevolution and mutualism. Wolves, particularly ones shunned by their packs, most likely initiated the relationship with Paleolithic humans, forming bonds built on mutually recognized skills and emotional capacity. This interdisciplinary study draws on sources from evolutionary biology as well as tribal and indigenous histories to produce an intelligent, insightful, and often unexpected story of cooperative hunting, wolves protecting camps, and wolf-human companionship. This fascinating assessment is a must-read for anyone interested in human evolution, ecology, animal behavior, anthropology, and the history of canine domestication.

Domesticating the World
Domesticating the World

Author: Jeremy Prestholdt

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-01-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520254244

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“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

Animals as Domesticates
Animals as Domesticates

Author: Juliet Clutton-Brock

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1609173147

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Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of India and the Australian dingo, this fascinating book explores the history of the complex relationships between humans and their domestic animals. With expert insight into the biological and cultural processes of domestication, Clutton-Brock suggests how the human instinct for nurturing may have transformed relationships between predator and prey, and she explains how animals have become companions, livestock, and laborers. The changing face of domestication is traced from the spread of the earliest livestock around the Neolithic Old World through ancient Egypt, the Greek and Roman empires, South East Asia, and up to the modern industrial age.

Domestic Violence and International Law
Domestic Violence and International Law

Author: Bonita Meyersfeld

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849463577

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Domestic Violence and International Law argues that certain forms of domestic violence are a violation of international human rights law. The argument is based on the international law principle that, where a state fails to protect a vulnerable group of people from harm, whether perpetrated by the state or private actors, it has breached its obligations to protect against human rights violation. This book provides a comprehensive legal analysis for why a state should be accountable in international law for allowing women to suffer extreme forms of domestic violence and how this can help individual victims. It is irrelevant that the violence is perpetrated by individuals and not state actors such as soldiers or the police. The state's breach of its responsibility is in its failure to act effectively in domestic violence cases; and in its silent endorsement of the violence, it becomes complicit. The book seeks to reformulate academic and political debate on domestic violence and the responsibility of states under international law. It is based on empirical data combined with an honest assessment of whether or not domestic violence is recognised by the international community as a human rights violation. 'Domestic Violence in International Law [...] provides an original, provocative, and much needed legal framework for the coherent development of a norm against domestic violence in international human rights law...Dr. Meyersfeld has developed a thoroughgoing analysis that asks and answers the most difficult questions often neglected by academics, lawyers and activists who dismiss the possibility that systemic violence against women could violate international law...Most fundamentally, this book is memorable for the hope and optimism it expresses about the transformative possibilities of international law. For without compromising such intensely human values as privacy, autonomy and cultural identity, Dr. Meyersfeld moves her reader with an abiding conviction: that international law, fueled with the power of transnational actors, can propel public actors to protect abused and vulnerable people in their most private worlds.' From the Foreword by Harold Koh, The Legal Adviser, United States Department of State (2009-).

Eyes Off the Prize
Eyes Off the Prize

Author: Carol Elaine Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-04-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521531580

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This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in America. The 'prize' they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community. But the onset of the Cold War and rising anti-communism allowed powerful Southerners to cast those rights as Soviet-inspired. Thus the Civil Rights Movement was launched with neither the language nor the mission it needed to truly achieve black equality.