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The Politics of Human Rights Protection
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2010
Summary
This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite the appearance of consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse—with its common core in inequality—is expanding at all levels from the petty to the profound. Designed to inform and inspire, this book also provides the analytical and strategic tools needed for the next generation of activists. Jan Knippers Black offers a fundamental reexamination of the basic terms and concepts, legal and institutional foundations, controversies, cleavages, threats and strategies associated with human rights.
Black's perspective is holistic, stressing the relevance of human rights issues to all human needs and endeavors and requiring multidisciplinary analysis. Chapters analyzing connections among political, economic, ecological, and cultural impacts on social and individual well-being are accompanied by case studies highlighting lessons learned from success or failure. This empowering book seeks to promote an "each for all" commitment, breaking through barriers of ignorance and apathy, denial and despair, so that advocates and activists can work to prevent future atrocities.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4051-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-5729-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
284
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. The Human Rights Perspective and the Need for Impact Assessment No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 02. What’s in a Name?: Deconstructing Human Rights Terms and Concepts No access
Chapter 03. The Dialectics of Building an International Human Rights Regime No access
Chapter 04. Human Rights Cleavages and Controversies: The Discourse No access
Chapter 05. The Globalization of Vulnerability No access
Chapter 06. From the Ashes: Argentina’s Return from Meltdown No access
Chapter 07. Participation and Accountability No access
Chapter 08. Wayfarers in a Walled-Up World No access
Chapter 09. Chile’s Long Way Home No access
Chapter 10. The Political Dimensions of Diversity No access
Chapter 11. Feminism, Democracy, and Self-Determination: The Taiwanese Experience No access
Chapter 12. The Naked Ape in Nature: Master or Guardian? No access
Chapter 13. China’s Three Gorges: The Dam and the Damned No access
Part VI. THE RIGHT TO A JUST PEACE No access
Chapter 15. Against All Odds: East Timor’s Struggle for Independence No access
Chapter 16. Empire as a State of War No access
Chapter 17. Terror and the War to End All Rights No access
Chapter 18. Cautious Mainstreaming, Constructive Subversion No access
Chapter 19. Conclusion: Playing from Strength No access
Recommended Readings No access Pages 253 - 260
Appendix: Human Rights Impact Assessment: Tips and Tools No access Pages 261 - 268
