This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic development in Africa. Changes in human rights environments in Africa over the past decade have been facilitated by astounding political transformations: the rise of mass movements and revolts driven by democratic and developmentalist ideals, as well as mass murder and poverty perpetuated by desperate regimes and discredited global agencies. Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa seeks to make sense of human rights in...
This volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic de...
Crimes of the Holocaust The Law Confronts Hard Cases Stephan Landsman The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent...
Crimes of the Holocaust The Law Confronts Hard Cases Stephan Landsman The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Sol...
In response to a growing global awareness of human poverty and the increasing potential of human rights law as a tool that can be used by the poor to achieve their basic rights, the international body of law, policy and relevant standards on economic, social, and cultural rights has expanded markedly in recent years. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, consolidated source of most major international agreements recognizing economic, social and cultural rights.
Readers interested in workers' rights, trade...
In response to a growing global awareness of human poverty and the increasing potential of human rights law as a tool that can be used by the poor ...
African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa. But how does constitutionalism deal with the lingering effects of colonialism? And how does constitutional law deal with Islamic principles in the region? African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam seeks to answer these questions. Constitutional governance has not been, nor will be, easily achieved, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im argues. But setbacks and difficulties are to be expected in the process of adaptation and indigenization...
African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Af...
Human Rights in Turkey Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. Foreword by Richard Falk Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union. Beginning with the foundation of a secular republic in 1923, and continuing with founding membership in the United Nations and participation in the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Turkey made significant commitments to the advancement of human rights. However, its authoritarian tradition, periods of military rule, increasing...
Human Rights in Turkey Edited by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. Foreword by Richard Falk Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in t...
As nations throughout the world emerge from periods of human rights abuses, systematic oppression, and collective violence, truth commissions have become indispensable to political transition. Such commissions are established as temporary bodies to investigate human rights violations and patterns of violence that occurred over a specified period of time. Their goal is to document conflict--to recover the truth--as a first step toward healing.
Of the truth commissions to date, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has most effectively captured public attention...
As nations throughout the world emerge from periods of human rights abuses, systematic oppression, and collective violence, truth commissions have ...
Creating Human Rights How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World Lisa S. Alfredson "The least likely case study is a noble tradition in comparative politics, while the study of norm change is a cuttingedge concern in international relations. Lisa S. Alfredson's well-crafted account of the introduction of gender-based asylum in Canada combines the best of these worlds, along with interesting observations on immigration policy, social movements, and the gendered nature of human rights."--Perspectives on Politics "Alfredson explores a remarkable case study that illustrates...
Creating Human Rights How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World Lisa S. Alfredson "The least likely case study is a noble tradition in ...
Freedom's Ordeal The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States Peter Juviler "This is an extremely valuable survey of the tortuous struggle for human rights in post-Soviet states. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "While one often hears how bad the situation in Russia is, Juviler's grand survey of it from the perspective of democratic institutions and human rights brings a wide array of facts and little-known details that give a truly illuminating picture of a country in strikingly poor condition."--Journal of Law and Society "Informative and...
Freedom's Ordeal The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States Peter Juviler "This is an extremely valuable survey of the tortuous...
Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strands of the fabric of organized life in countries, and crucial to the prospect of political democracy. Civil society is a very recent phenomenon in East African nations, where authoritarian regimes have prevailed and human rights watchdogs have had a critical role to play. While the state remains one of the major challenges to human rights efforts in the countries of the region, other problems that are internal to the human rights movement are also...
Human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are by definition not part of the state. Rather, they are an element of civil society, the strand...
Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a group of world citizens including Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration has been translated into 300 languages and has become the basis for most other international human rights texts and norms. In spite of the global success of this document, however, a philosophical disconnect exists between what major theorists have...
Confronting the evils of World War II and building on the legacy of the 1776 Declaration of Independence and the 1789 French Declaration of the Rig...
