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Can we still afford human rights? : critical reflections on universality, proliferation and costs / edited by Jan Wouters, Koen Lemmens, Thomas Van Poecke and Marie Bourguignon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Leuven global governance
- Leuven global governance series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- United Nations.
- United Nations. General Assembly.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly).
- Human rights--Economic aspects.
- Human rights.
- Human rights--Social aspects.
- International and municipal law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The interdependence of issues relating to the universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen Lemmens
- Part I: The universality of human rights
- The mythic universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights : revisiting the drafting history of the UDHR in search of a foundational theory / Nick Goetschalckx
- The case for a comprehensive global human rights treaty under UN auspices / Konstantinos D. Magliveras
- The universality of human rights : a European perspective / Paul Lemmens
- Recognition of same-sex relationships under the ECHR : till death, or the lack of European consensus, do us part / Johan Lievens and Nele Verbrugghe
- Part II: The proliferation of human rights
- The proliferation of human rights : between devotion and calculation / Kasey McCall-Smith
- Human rights adjudication : between hopes and failures / Dalia Palombo
- Sustainable development in "new generation" trade agreements of the European Union : towards integration or fragmentation of the human rights language? / Michelle Meulebrouck
- Denationalization under the EC(t)HR : a need for an autonomous human right to a nationality? / Louise Reyntjens
- Part III: The costs of human rights
- Economic, social and political costs of the (non-)realization of human rights : towards a new social contract / Felipe Gómez Isa
- Conflicts in human rights-based development / Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters
- Rights and development : the costs of human rights in Ethiopia / Dina Townsend and Nicky Broeckhoven
- The least financially accountable branch? : the right to health and the judiciary's power of the purse : an Israeli perspective / Hillel Sommer
- The human rights project : perspectives on universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Dima Yared.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on November 3, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 183910032X
- 9781839100321
- Publisher Number:
- 40030241432
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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