Bringing Human Rights Back: Embracing Human Rights as a Mechanism for Addressing Gaps in United States Law

Corinne Tagliarina; Daniel Tagliarina

doi:10.5771/9781498572255

Summary

Bringing Human Rights Back: Embracing Human Rights as a Mechanism for Addressing Gaps in United States Law examines well-documented policy failures in the United States and makes an argument for how a human rights approach to these issues can lead to meaningful change. Specifically, the authors articulate a human rights approach to online harassment of women, child poverty, and access to safe drinking water. These issue areas all involve human rights concerns and gross shortcomings within current law, policy, and practice in the United States. The authors analyze recent events, such as Gamergate, contention over social programs such as TANF and CHIP, and the water crises in Flint and Detroit to demonstrate the ways in which current laws do not fully respect, protect, and fulfill human rights. A human rights approach decenters assigning blame or liability, and instead emphasizes human dignity, redress, and remedy for the rights violations. Daniel Tagliarina and Corinne Tagliarina not only highlight the need for change in these areas, but outline a practical way forward rooted in human rights scholarship and practice.

Keywords

Search publication

Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7224-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7225-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 131
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: A Human Rights Framework No access Pages 1 - 8
1 The Power of Human Rights to Address (American) Legal Challenges No access Pages 9 - 20
2 A Human Rights Approach to Remedying and Preventing Online Harassment of Women No access Pages 21 - 48
3 A Human Rights Approach to Redressing and Ameliorating Child Poverty in the United States No access Pages 49 - 74
4 A Human Rights Approach to Protecting and Providing Clean Water No access Pages 75 - 90
5 Human Rights, Barriers to Change, and Radical Equality No access Pages 91 - 102
Bibliography No access Pages 103 - 122
Index No access Pages 123 - 130
About the Authors No access Pages 131 - 131