Advancing Human Rights series – serie
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14 produkter
Freedom from Want
The Human Right to Adequate Food
Av George Kent
Häftad, 2005
733 kr
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There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "Everyone should have adequate food," and "Everyone has the right to adequate food." In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees …
Protecting Human Rights
A Comparative Study
Av Todd Landman
Häftad, 2005
718 kr
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Ours has been called a global "age of rights," an era in which respect for human rights is considered the highest aspiration of the international democratic community. Since the United Nation's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a wide variety of protections - civil, political, economic, …
Protecting Human Rights
A Comparative Study
Av Todd Landman
Inbunden, 2005
1761 kr
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Ours has been called a global "age of rights," an era in which respect for human rights is considered the highest aspiration of the international democratic community. Since the United Nation's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a wide variety of protections—civil, political, economic, …
Power and Principle
Human Rights Programming in International Organizations
Häftad, 2007
521 kr
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The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has instructed all UN specialized agencies and other affiliated organizations to consider how their work might advance the cause of human rights around the world. Many of these bodies have taken this call to heart, with a wide range of intergovernmental …
Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs
Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights
Häftad, 2007
643 kr
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In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international women's rights movement and an instructive moment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking …
Rights of God
Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics
Av Irene Oh
Häftad, 2007
643 kr
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Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerous humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam. In "The Rights of God", Irene Oh looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political …
New Rights Advocacy
Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs
Häftad, 2008
358 kr
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After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at satisfying basic economic needs. Both …
New Rights Advocacy
Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs
Inbunden, 2008
1066 kr
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After World War II dozens of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerged on the global scene, committed to improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Some focused on protecting human rights; some were dedicated to development, aimed at satisfying basic economic needs. Both …
Breaking Silence
The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights
Häftad, 2008
411 kr
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Young seventeen-year-old Joelito Filartiga was taken from his family home in Asuncion, Paraguay, brutally tortured, and murdered by the Paraguayan police. "Breaking Silence" is the inside story of the quest for justice by his father - the true target of the police - Paraguayan artist and …
Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World
Av Grace Y. Kao
Häftad, 2011
643 kr
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In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without "distinction of any kind," possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that …
Freedom from Want
The Human Right to Adequate Food
Av George Kent
Inbunden, 2005
1876 kr
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There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements "Everyone should have adequate food," and "Everyone has the right to adequate food." In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees …
Power and Principle
Human Rights Programming in International Organizations
Inbunden, 2007
1974 kr
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The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has instructed all UN specialized agencies and other affiliated organizations to consider how their work might advance the cause of human rights around the world. Many of these bodies have taken this call to heart, with a wide range of intergovernmental …
Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs
Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights
Inbunden, 2007
1974 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the mid-1990s, when the United Nations adopted positions affirming a woman's right to be free from bodily harm and to control her own reproductive health, it was both a coup for the international women's rights movement and an instructive moment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seeking …
Rights of God
Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics
Av Irene Oh
Inbunden, 2007
2039 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Promoting Islam as a defender of human rights is laden with difficulties. Advocates of human rights will readily point out numerous humanitarian failures carried out in the name of Islam. In "The Rights of God", Irene Oh looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political …
