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... Omar al-Bashir, WORLD REPORT 2011 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing ... business and human rights, children’s rights, health and human rights, international justice, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, refugees, terrorism/counterterrorism, and women’s rights; ... 22 WORLD REPORT 2011 Please consult the Human Rights Watch website for more detailed treatment of our work on children’s rights, women’s rights, arms and military issues, busi- ness and human rights, ...

... ”: HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’. 28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper- spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights. 29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1of Chapter2. 30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevant includecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegal studiesmovement. 31Marie-Be ´ ne ´ dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence: TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),Insideand OutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London: Routledge,1996)19–40. 32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4. 33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics), AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern- ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)and RichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),Costas Douzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics) protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua (Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthis briefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebates abouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries. 34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido- latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(which doesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseof theterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’. 35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whom IclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literally training, ... ‘secular religion’ of human rights, I am not merely a human rights agnostic but also a human rights atheist, for I am ready to affirm the non-existence, across the ages, of human rights. Going further, ... protest scholar, human rights guide human conduct in the fight against injustice and oppression. Only for the discourse scholar is the moral status of human rights open to question. To him or her, human rights...

... Declaration on Human Rights 37 * Typical structure of an International Convention on Human Rights 38 * Sources of data 39 * References 40 * ANNEX I - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 ... on Human Rights 20 4.2.1 Purposes 20 4.2.2 Typical legal characteristics 20 4.3 A study of discourse structure and some major linguistic features of the International Convention on Human Rights ... INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 3.1 Definition of an International Declaration 10 3.2 Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10 Declaration on Human Rights 3.2.1 Purposes...

... Universal Declaration of Human Rights and European Charter on Human Rights. (European Convention on Human Rights) . Charter of the United Nations; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International ... and obligations of States Parties in one certain area of human rights (e.g.: all human rights in general or women's/children's rights or non-discrimination for any reasons in particular). - ... on Human Rights, 1950. 5. Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989. 6. Convention against Discrimination in Education, 1960. Source: - Brownlie, I. (1992). Basic Documents on Human Rights...

... appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance in the enjoyment of applicable rights set forth in the present Convention and in other international human rights or humanitarian instruments ... in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, ... have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social...

... below. 65 Tay, Human Rights , 5. 166 This ICCPR treaty organisation is different from the UN Charter-derived Human Rights Council which replaced, in 2006, the Commission on Human Rights. 167 See ... rights can clash ‘head-on’, 59 for example where cultural rights might conflict with economic rights. To an extent there is a difference between human rights and civil, political and social rights ... these human rights texts are related. Economic, social and cultural rights can facilitate the enjoyment of civil and political rights. 61 228 A Wholly Mammon Empire? 157 Johan Galtung, Human Rights...

... show in respect of human rights orthodoxy. Human rights are most commonly represented as given – inherent and inalien- able. Against this stance, I have intimated that human rights is a ‘system ... reason: to them, human rights is the best language we have to set human beings free of oppression. Deliberative scholars do not think the issue is a matter of faith: they look at human rights as good ... and what should you do if you let go of human rights? 22 Can you even let go of the concept? I certainly have not dared to, and continue to defend human rights as ‘strategically useful’. What...

... of human rights. Human rights as an article of faith According to a standard definition, human rights are those rights one has by virtue of being human. 1 This definition suggests that human rights ... inherent in human rights, see Ignatieff, Human Rights, at 75. 16 Who Believes in Human Rights? 1 Introduction This book grew out of my attraction to and discomfort with the idea of human rights. ... ‘secular religion’ of human rights, I am not merely a human rights agnostic but also a human rights atheist, for I am ready to affirm the non-existence, across the ages, of human rights. Going further,...

... of human rights. For them, human rights law can never be truly faithful to the philosophical concept of human rights: there is a real danger that there is a lack of continuity between human rights ... hold that it is possible for human beings actually to have human rights. Protest scholars hold that human rights can never be had: as a language of protest, human rights are always out of reach, ... human rights as a philosophical concept and human rights as a legal concept. The congruence is not necessary – so presented human rights practice can admittedly be an abuse of the human rights...

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... Mobilizing for Human Rights Mobilizing for Human Rights This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive con- tribution to the realization of human rights in much of ... 1998. 37 Hathaway 2002. 38 Moravcsik 2000. 16 Mobilizing for Human Rights 2 Why International Law? The Development of the International Human Rights Regime in the Twentieth Century It is difficult to ... Dai 2005. 26 Mobilizing for Human Rights The reason is simple. The development of international legal rules has been the central collective project to address human rights for the past 60 years. Whenever...

... International Council on Human Rights Policy, for example, in a March 2000 report on the performance and legitimacy of national human rights institutions, recommended that “national human rights institutions ... Gomez, "Social economic rights and human rights commissions" in Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 17, No. l (February, 1995), pp. 155-169. 09 International Council on Human Rights Policy, Performance ... cultural rights& quot; (Module 23), in Circle of Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource (International Human Rights Internship Program and Asian Forum for Human Rights...

... to human rights reporting and mechanisms, including State and “shadow reporting” to UN treaty bodies, special procedures mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council 3 and reports to the Councils ... further the realization of human rights as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international human rights instruments. Process: Human rights standards and principles ... http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Presentation/ESCRBooklet/English.pdf ã Reports submitted to the European Committee of Social Rights are available on the Council of Europe web site: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Reporting/StateReports/Reports_en.asp ã...

... means of individual recourse when human rights standards are violated. 54 At the national level, national human rights institutions (e.g., an Ombudsman or Human Rights Commission) can work to ... Reproductive Health and Human Rights of PLHIV 7 Imperatives of both human rights and public health require that health care and legal systems support the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people ... entitled to the full protection of their human rights, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. In March 2007, international human rights experts released the Yogyakarta Principles 48 ,...

... Human Rights and the two treaties represent a milestone for humanity: the recognition that human rights are founded on human dig- nity and that human dignity is shared by all members of the human ... issued a report titled Investing in Health. 12 Although not stated in the language of human rights, the report s action agenda implicitly acknowledged that only the recognition of basic human rights could ... Human Rights and Health 25 Human Rights and Physicians Both medical ethics and human rights are aspirational and difficult to en- force. Over...