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HUMAN RIGHTS READER, 2ND ED, INDIAN REPRINT 2014 - MICHELINE R. ISHAY (EX) |
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MICHELINE R. ISHAY
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Cover Price : £ 19.99
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Imprint : T & F / Routledge ISBN : 9780415951609 YOP : 2014
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Binding : Paperback Total Pages : 588 CD : No
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A wonderfully edited collection that deepens our understanding of why human rights should be deeply inscribed in our moral and political imagination. –
Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University; Visiting Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
“In tracing the complex intellectual history of human rights, Micheline Ishay’s insightful and provocative selection of texts illuminates many of today’s most fundamental rights debates. Are human rights Western impositions or universal values? Does globalization advance or undermine them? Do they originate in or constrain religion? Are they the product of socialism or among its victims? Did the anti-colonial movement respond to repression or simply shift its source? None of these questions admits simple answers, but no one should address them without considering the deep and varied perspectives provided in Ishay’s new Human Rights Reader. –
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
“Micheline Ishays excellent collection provides all the material that anyone needs to participate in the critical debates about human rights. Differing views of cultural diversity, economic justice, national self-determination, and humanitarian intervention are fairly and intelligently represented.
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
“Following her masterly History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization, Micheline Ishay now presents us with an extraordinarily rich, original, and illuminating compilation of sources on the history and philosophy of human rights. Insightful introductions to each part provide the appropriate historical context. A ‘must’ for courses on human rights. –
David Kretzmer, Professor of International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, UK
The second edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a dramatically revised organization and updated selections, including pieces on globalization and the war on terrorism. Each section corresponds to five historical phases in the history of human rights and explores for each the arguments, debates, and issues of inclusiveness central to those eras. The volume remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays, speeches, and documents from historical and contemporary sources, all of which are now placed in context with Micheline Ishay’s substantial introduction to the reader as a whole and valuable introductions to each part and chapter.
Contents:-
Preface
Introduction, Human Rights : Historical and Contemporary Controversies BY MICHELINE R. ISHAY
PART I: THE ORIGINS : SECULAR, ASIAN AND MONOTHEIS TIC TRADITIONS
1. Liberty, Tolerance, and Codes of Justice
2. Social and Economic Justice
3. Justice, War, and Peace
4. Justice for Whom?
PART II : THE LEGACY OF LIBERALISMN AND THE ENLIGHTEMENT
5. Liberal Visions of Human Rights
6. How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights
7. Human Rights for Whom?
PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
8. Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights
9. How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights
10. Human Rights for Whom?
PART IV : THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGE
11. On the National Question
PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
12. Redefining Rights in the New Millennium
13. Human Rights for Whom? Cultural and Group Rights Versus Universalism
14. How to Promote Human Rights
PART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
15. Documents
Permission Acknowledgments
Index
Micheline Ishay is Professor at the Joesph Korbel School of International Studies at University of Denver, where she is Director of the human rights program. She has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Tel Aviv, the University of Maryland, and as Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and speaks regularly on a variety of human rights and foreign policy issues. Ishay is the author or editor of The History of Human Rights (2004), The Nationalism Reader (1999), and Internationalism and Its Betrayal (1995). |
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MEASURING HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIAN REPRINT - TODD LANDMAN (EX) |
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TODD LANDMAN EDZIA CARVALHO
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Cover Price : £ 14.99
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Imprint : T & F / Routledge ISBN : 9780415446501 YOP : 2014
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Binding : Paperback Total Pages : 174 CD : No
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The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners. Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.
The Book:
- draws explicitly on the international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured
- contains a comprehensive methodological framework for operationalizing this human rights content into human rights measures.
- includes separate chapters on the methods, strengths and biases of different human rights measures, including events-based, standards-based, survey-based, and socio-economic and administrative statistics
- covers measures of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights
- includes a complete bibliography, as well as sources and locations for data sets useful for the measurement of human rights.
This volume offers a significant and timely addition to the field and will be of interest to academics and NGOs, INGOs, international governmental organizations, international financial institutions, and national governments themselves.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. The Content of Human Rights 3. Measuring Human Rights 4. Events-Based Measures of human rights 5. Standards-Based Measures 6. Survey-Based Measures 7. Socio-Economic and Administrative Statistics 8. Conclusion
Todd Landman is Professor in the Department of Government and a Member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He is author of many books, including Studying Human Rights (2006), Protecting Human Rights (2005), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (2000, 2003, and 2008).
Edzia Carvalho is currently researching her PhD on public health policy in India in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. She has an MA in Human Rights (Essex 2006), and an MA in International Relations (Mumbai 2003). |
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, 2014 - MICHAEL HAAS (EX) |
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Cover Price : £ 14.99
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Imprint : T & F / Routledge ISBN : 9780415774550 YOP : 2014
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Binding : Paperback Total Pages : 462 CD : No
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to international human rights -- international human rights law, why international human rights have increasingly risen to world prominence, what is being done about violations of human rights, and what might be done to further promote the cause of international human rights so that everyone may one day have their rights respected regardless of who they are or where they live.
It explains:
-how the concept of international human rights has developed over time
-the variety of types of human rights (civil-political rights, economic-social rights, as well as a delineation of war crimes)
-empirical findings from statistical research on human rights
-institutional efforts to promote human rights
-a listing of all international human rights agreements
-identification of recent prosecutions of war criminals in domestic and international tribunals
-ongoing efforts to promote human rights through international aid programs
-the newest dimensions in the field of human rights (gay rights, animal rights, environmental rights).
Richly illustrated throughout with case studies, controversies, court cases, think points, historical examples, biographical statements, and suggestions for further reading, International Human Rights is the ideal introduction for all students of human rights. The book will also be useful for human rights activists to learn how and where to file human rights complaints in order to bring violators to justice.
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1. Introduction 2. The Philosophical Basis for Human Rights 3. The Historical Basis for Human Rights 4. The Contemporary Basis for Human Rights 5. Civil and Political Rights 6. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 7. Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Peace, & War Crimes 8. Quantitative Dimensions 9. United Nations Charter-Based Organizations 10. Other Treaty-Based Global International Organizations 11. American Approaches to International Human Rights 12. European Approaches to International Human Rights 13. Third World Approaches to International Human Rights 14. New Dimensions & Challenges Glossary , References and further reading , Notes
Michael Haas devoted most of his career as a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai`i to teaching, research, and public service centering on human rights. He not only filed civil rights complaints that resulted in the adoption of affirmative action in the Aloha State to benefit all races, including Caucasians, Filipinos, and Native Hawaiians, but he also played a role in stopping the secret funding by Washington that reached the Khmer Rouge during the 1980s. He recently conferred honorary doctorate degrees in his current role as Chair of the International Academic Advisory Council at the University of Cambodia.
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CHILD HUNGER AND HUMAN RIGHTS, 2014 - CLAIR APODACA (EX) |
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Cover Price : £ 24.99
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Imprint : T & F / Routledge ISBN : 9780415552691 YOP : 2014
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Binding : Hardback Total Pages : 192 CD : No
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Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide.
This book includes moral, economic, political and legal components to the research on the child’s right to be free from hunger. Using two methods of investigation; the first a historical comparative method based on the systematic analysis of the content of historical materials, government documents, policy statements, state budgets, newspaper reports and other public records, and the second is statistical analysis. Apodaca investigates beyond the suffering, deformities, and deaths of children, to child malnutrition resulting in reduced physical and mental development threatening the child’s life opportunities, the prospects of further generations, and the growth of the economy.
Examining the connection between governmental agricultural, economic and financial policies, international donor policies, and transnational corporate voluntary codes of conduct affecting child malnutrition rates, this book will be of interest to policy-makers, activists, students and scholars of human rights, social justice, international ethics, development, international relations and law.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Child Hunger and the Rights-Based Approach 3 .A note on methods 4. A State’s Obligation toward the Child’s Right to Food 4. The International Community’s Obligations Under the Human Right to Food 5. The Duties of intergovernmental organizations to the Child’s Right to be Free from Hunger 6. Transnational Obligations of Multinational Corporations 7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Clair Apodaca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.
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STUDYING HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIAN REPRINT 2014 - TODD LANDMAN (EX) |
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Cover Price : £ 12.99
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Imprint : T & F / Routledge ISBN : 9780415326056 YOP : 2014
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Binding : Paperback Total Pages : 188 CD : No
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Studying Human Rights draws on key theories and methods from the social sciences to develop a framework for the systematic study of human rights problems. It argues that solid empirical analysis of human rights problems rests on examining the observable practices from state and non-state actors that constitute human rights violations to provide plausible explanations for their occurrence and provide deeper understanding of their meaning.
Such explanations and understanding draws on the theoretical insights from rational, structural and cultural approaches in the social sciences. This book includes:
• an outline of the scope of human rights
• the terrain of key actors that have an impact on human rights
• a summary of the social science theories, methods and measures for studying human rights
• a separate treatment of global comparative studies, truth commissions, and human rights impact assessment.
Studying Human Rights is the first book to use the synthesis of social sciences approaches to studying human rights and its quantitative and qualitative approach provides useful insights. This book makes a unique contribution to the existent literature on human rights and is an invaluable tool for both scholars and practitioners of this area.
Contents
1. Scope of Human Rights 2. The Terrain of Human Rights 3. Social Theory and Human Rights 4. Social Science Methods and Human Rights 5. Measuring Human Rights 6. Global Comparative Studies 7. The Social Science of Truth Commissions 8. Human Rights Impact Assessment 9. Theory and Method in Studying Human Rights, Notes, References, Index
Todd Landman served as Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre (2003-2005) and is a Reader in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. His recent publications include protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study (Georgetown University Press, 2005) and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (Routledge, 2000, 2003).
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Islam and Human Rights, Indian Reprint - Abdullahi An-Na'im |
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Abdullahi An-Na'im
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Cover Price : Rs 2,995.00
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Imprint : Gower / Gower Publishing ISBN : 9788186268452 YOP : 2015
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Binding : Hardback Total Pages : 412 CD : No
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Contents
Acknowledgment
Series Editor’s Preface
Biography
Introduction
Part I Islam Between Universalism and Secularism
What do we mean by universal?
Islamic law, international relations and human rights: challenge and response
A kinder, gentler Islam?
Re-affirming secularism for Islamic societies
Islam and human rights: beyond the universality debate.
Part II Islam and Human Rights in the Muslim World
Human rights in the Muslim world: socio-political conditions and scriptural imperatives
Civil rights in the Islamic constitutional traditions: shared ideals and divergent regimes
Human rights in the Arab world: a regional perspective
Human rights and Islamic identity in France and Uzbekistan: mediation of the local and global
'The best of times' and 'the worst of times' human agency and human rights in Islamic societies.
Part III Some Topical Issues in Islam and Human Rights Discourse
The Islamic law of apostasy and its modern applicability: a case from the Sudan
Religious minorities under Islamic law and the limits of cultural relativism
The rights of women and international law in the Muslim context
The contingent universality of human rights: the case of freedom of expression in African and Islamic contexts
Why should Muslims abandon jihad? Human rights and the future of international law.
Part IV Conclusion: A Theory of Interdependence
The interdependence of religion, secularism, and human rights: prospects for Islamic societies
Index
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