UID:
almahu_9947414621102882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139171298 (ebook)
Content:
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 rights in the context of particular ethical communities. In the first part of the book chapters by Ken Booth, Jack Donnelly, Chris Brown, Bhikhu Parekh and Mary Midgley explore the philosophical basis of claims to universal human rights. In the second part, Richard Falk, Mary Kaldor, Martin Shaw, Gil Loescher, Georgina Ashworth and Andrew Hurrell reflect on the role of the media, global civil society, states, migration, non-governmental organisations, capitalism, and schools and universities in developing a global human rights culture.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: human rights and the fifty years' crisis / Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler -- Three tyrannies / Ken Booth -- The social construction of international human rights / Jack Donnelly -- Universal human rights: a critique / Chris Brown -- Non-ethnocentric universalism / Bhikhu Parekh -- Towards an ethic of global responsibility / Mary Midgley -- The challenge of genocide and genocidal politics in an era of globalisation / Richard Falk -- Transnational civil society / Mary Kaldor -- Global voices: civil society and the media in global crises / Martin Shaw -- Refugees: a global human rights and security crisis / Gil Loescher -- The silencing of women / Georgina Ashworth -- Power, principles and prudence: protecting human rights in a deeply divided world / Andrew Hurrell -- Learning beyond frontiers / Ken Booth and Tim Dunne.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521641388
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171298
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