Rescuing human rights : a radically moderate approach / Hurst Hannum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannum, Hurst, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights--Government policy.

Human rights--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The development of human rights norms is one of the most significant achievements in international relations and law since 1945, but the continuing influence of human rights is increasingly being questioned by authoritarian governments, nationalists, and pundits. Unfortunately, the proliferation of new rights, linking rights to other issues such as international crimes or the activities of business, and attempting to address every social problem from a human rights perspective risk undermining their credibility. Rescuing Human Rights calls for understanding 'human rights' as international human rights law and maintaining the distinctions between binding legal obligations on governments and broader issues of ethics, politics, and social change. Resolving complex social problems requires more than simplistic appeals to rights, and adopting a 'radically moderate' approach that recognizes both the potential and the limits of international human rights law, offers the best hope of preserving the principle that we all have rights, simply because we are human.

Contents:

Crime and (occasional) punishment

The importance of government, for better or worse

Human rights and... whatever

Undermining old rights with new ones: you can't always get what you want

Women, sex, and gender

The flexibility of human rights norms : universality is not uniformity

Human rights hawks

The indispensable state? : the United States and human rights

The way forward : less is more.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2019).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108277730

Access Restriction:

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