Suffer the Children: A Theoretical Foundation for the Human Rights of the Child

ISBN-13: 9780197565995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Richard P. Hiskes

Recenzje

In a unique, timely, provocative, and theoretically rich book, Richard P. Hiskes deploys the concepts of rationality and vulnerability to counter the claim that children cannot be rights bearers because they lack the requisite capacity to make rational choices. Arguing for shifting the burden onto society for the protection against actual and concrete harms, Hiskes contends that environmental human rights and the rights of children are inescapably linked on many levels.

O autorze

Richard P. Hiskes is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He is a political theorist who specializes in human rights theory, especially environmental human rights and the rights of children. He is former Editor of the Journal of Human Rights, Director of the Undergraduate Human Rights Program and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at UCONN, and twice elected President of the APSA Human Rights Section. He is the author of many books and articles on human rights and other aspects of political and democratic theory, and his 2009 book, The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice, won the 2010 APSA Human Rights Section award for Best Book in Human Rights.