Making Human Rights Real [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spagnoli, Filip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Local Subjects:

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The most important characteristics of human rights are enumerated in a clear and concise discussion that analyzes the problem of making human rights real, and not just hypothetical, worldwide. Building on definitions of human rights used by the United Nations and other international bodies, and without being sidetracked by nettlesome discussions of specific troubling cases of rights abuses, the author describes the main characteristics of the system of human rights. He focuses on universality, interdependence, differences between types of rights, absolute or limited rights, the subjects of rig

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: Truth and Politics; Chapter 1. Universal Rights; Cultural Relativism; Or Cultural Absolutism?; The Relativity of Relativism; Changing Cultures; Inalienable, Natural and Legal Rights; Citizenship and Asylum; Chapter 2. Types of Rights and Interdependent Rights; Economic Rights = Oxymoron?; Hierarchy of Responsibility; Big State; How?; "Suprema Lex"?; Chapter 3. Limited Rights; Balancing Rights; Limiting the Number of Rights; Chapter 4. Individual Rights and Equal Rights; Individual or Collective Rights?; Self Determination?; Nationalism; Equal Rights

Chapter 5. Religious LibertyLimiting and Separating the State and the Church; Communities and Identities Living Together; Inclusive and Exclusive Norms; Chapter 6. The Law; The Rule of Law; State and Society; Chapter 7. Separation of Powers and Judicial Review; Protection by the Courts; Civil Disobedience; The Justice System; Chapter 8. Tolerance; No Human Rights Without Tolerance; The Benefits of Tolerance; Tolerating Intolerance?; Chapter 9. Democracy; Political Rights; Multi-Party and Two-Party Democracy; Direct Democracy; Democracy and Non-Political Rights

Chapter 10. Sovereignty and InterventionNew Sovereignty; Intervention; Globalization; Chapter 11. Freedom and Equality; Freedom vs. Equality; Unlimited and Limited Negative Freedom; Equal Freedom; Freedom and the State; References; Appendix: List of Human Rights; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-87586-571-2

OCLC:

476115854