Human rights, southern voices : Francis Deng, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Yash Ghai and Upendra Baxi / edited by William Twining.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Twining, William, 1934- editor.

Series:

Law in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-.

Deng, Francis Mading.

Baxi, Upendra.

Ghai, Yash P., 1938-.

Ghai, Yash P.

Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad, 1946-.

Naʻīm, ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad.

Human rights.

Human rights--South America.

Human rights--Africa.

Human rights--Political aspects.

Africa.

Human rights--Middle East.

Human rights--Asia.

Asia.

Human rights--History.

History.

Middle East.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

A just international order and a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law need to include perspectives that take account of the standpoints, interests, concerns and beliefs of non-Western people and traditions. The dominant scholarly and activist discourses about human rights have developed largely without reference to these other viewpoints. Claims about universality sit uneasily with ignorance of other traditions and parochial or ethnocentric tendencies. The object of the book is to make accessible the ideas of four jurists who present distinct 'Southern' perspectives on human rights.

Contents:

Francis Mading Deng

The cow and the thing called "What": Dinka cultural perspectives on wealth and poverty

Human rights, universalism and democracy

A cultural approach to human rights among the Dinka

Abdullahi An-Na'im

Context and methodology: the Second Message of Islam

Shari'a and basic human rights concerns

Culural legitimation: towards a cross-cultural approach to defining international standards of human rights: the meaning of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment

Islam and the secular state

Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR)

Yash Ghai

Universalism and relativism: human rights as a framework for negotiating interethnic claims

Understanding human rights in Asia

Quotations

Upendra Baxi

Voices of suffering and the future of human rights

Rights and "development."

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511808364

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