Human rights in the 21st century / Tibor Várady and Miodrag Jovanovic, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varady, Tibor, 1939- editor.

Jovanović, Miodrag A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Physical Description:

online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The Hague, The Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

This is a collection of papers that were initially presented at the international conference, which was organized from 9th to 10th November 2018 by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) and Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. The conference was organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Besides the introductory address, by Ben Ferencz, one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, this volume gathers internationally renowned scholars and practitioners who deal with diverging issues from the international human rights law and politics. The volume opens with a selection of contributions broadly falling under the heading – general theoretical issues. It is followed by a handful of articles focusing on the minority rights protection in the 21st century. Third part of the book is devoted to a pertinent problem of accountability of corporations for human rights violations. The closing part of the book is dedicated to environment and bioethics as human rights issues. This volume would be of interest to both human rights scholars and practitioners as well as to those generally interested in public international law issues.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Table of Contents

Contributors

Part I Introduction

1 Do Human Rights Still Have a Chance?

Part II General Theoretical Issues

2 International Legal Human Rights and Moral Human Rights: Friends or Foes?

3 Human Rights and the Constitutionalization of International Law

4 Human Rights in the Age of Antipaternalism

5 Towards a More Effective Protection of Human Rights for Noncitizens

Part III Minority Rights in the 21st Century

6 International Protection of Religious Minorities, with an Emphasis on the Use of Religious Symbols - Rise or Decline?

7 The European Court of Human Rights and the Protection of Ethnic and Religious Minorities Through the Right to Equal Treatment: A Mixed Picture

8 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the Instrument for Realizing Universal Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Part IV Human Rights in Corporations

9 Legal Personality and Sovereignty

10 Home State Regulation of Transnational Corporations to Protect Human Rights

11 Fundamental Rights of Employees Through the Lens of the European Convention on Human Rights

12 Pigeonholing Human Rights in International Investment Arbitration: A Claim or a Defense?

Part V Environment and Bioethics as Human Rights Issues

13 Environmental Rights as a New Wave of Human Rights

14 Bioethics as a Tool for Extending the Human Rights Discourse

15 Bioethical and Legal Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Human Dignity

16 Ultimate Morality: Moral Duties of (Post)Humans

17 Protection of Biodiversity from the Perspective of Human Rights and Human Security.

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ISBN:

9789460944840

9460944841