Can We Still Afford Human Rights?

Critical Reflections on Universality, Proliferation and Costs

AvJan Wouters,Koen Lemmens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

This insightful book offers a critical reflection on the sustainability and effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its legacy over the last 70 years. Exploring the problems surrounding universality, proliferation and costs, it asks the provocative question, can we still afford human rights?Expert contributors illustrate the interdependence between these three key issues in an unprecedented way, addressing many of the contemporary criticisms voiced against the human rights system and the reasons for popular skepticism about human rights. In order to interrogate the deficiencies of the UDHR, chapters analyse the following questions: Can and should we keep claiming that human rights are universal? Is their proliferation rendering human rights meaningless? And have human rights become too costly? The book concludes that there is a pressing need for a renewed and lasting commitment to human rights. We cannot afford not to afford human rights.This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, the political sciences and comparative legal studies. Covering policy and advocacy issues as well as the evolution of case law regarding particular human rights, it will also be beneficial for policy-makers and human rights practitioners.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-13
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Leuven Global Governance series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781839100314

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Folkrätt inom Juridik
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Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Edited by Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Koen Lemmens, Professor of International and European Human Rights Law and Media Law, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Thomas Van Poecke, formerly KU Leuven and Marie Bourguignon, PhD Researcher, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Belgium

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:INTRODUCTION1.The Interdependence of Issues Relating to the Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human RightsThomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen LemmensPART I: THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2.The Mythic Universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Revisiting the Drafting History of the UDHR in Search for a Foundational Theory Nick Goetschalckx3.The Case for a Comprehensive Global Human Rights Treaty under UN AuspicesProf. Dr. Konstantinos D. Magliveras4.The Universality of Human Rights: A European perspectiveProf. Dr. Paul Lemmens5.Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships under the ECHR: Till Death – or the Lack of European Consensus – Do Us PartDr. Johan Lievens and Nele VerbrugghePart II: THE PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 6.The Proliferation of Human Rights: Between Devotion and CalculationProf. Dr. Kasey McCall-Smith7.Human Rights Adjudication: Between Hopes and FailuresDr. Dalia Palombo8.Sustainable Development in “New Generation” Trade Agreements of the European Union: Towards Integration or Fragmentation of the Human Rights Language?’Michelle Meulebrouck9.Denationalization under the EC(t)HR: A Need for an Autonomous Human Right to a Nationality?Louise ReyntjensPART III: THE COSTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 10.Economic, Social and Political Costs of the (Non-)Realization of Human Rights: Towards a New Social ContractProf. Dr. Felipe Gómez Isa11.Conflicts in Human Rights-Based DevelopmentDr. Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters12.Rights and Development: The Costs of Human Rights in EthiopiaDr. Dina Townsend and Dr. Nicky Broeckhoven13.The Least Financially Accountable Branch? The Right to Health and the Judiciary’s Power of the Purse: An Israeli PerspectiveDr. Hillel SommerCONCLUSION14.The Human Rights Project: Perspectives on Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human RightsDima YaredIndex