Author: Thomas Pogge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right
Author: Thomas Pogge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: theory and politics
Author: Pogge, Thomas
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Freedom from poverty as a human right: economic perspectives
Author: Andreassen, Bard A.
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Freedom from Poverty
Author: Daniel P.L. Chong
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care—while essential to human survival—were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. This book outlines how three types of NGOs—human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations—are breaking down barriers by incorporating access to economic and social goods into national laws and advancing subsistence rights through nonjuridical means. These NGOs are using rights not only as legal instruments but as moral and rhetorical implements to build social movements, shape political culture, and guide development work. Rights language is now invoked in churches, political campaigns, rock concerts, and organizational mission statements. Chong presents a social theory of human rights to provide a framework for understanding these changes and defending the legitimacy of these rights. Freedom from Poverty analyzes new trends in the evolution of human rights by combining constructivist and postpositivist legal approaches. This book provides valuable concepts to human rights practitioners, political scientists, antipoverty advocates, and leaders who are serious about ending widespread privation and disease.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care—while essential to human survival—were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. This book outlines how three types of NGOs—human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations—are breaking down barriers by incorporating access to economic and social goods into national laws and advancing subsistence rights through nonjuridical means. These NGOs are using rights not only as legal instruments but as moral and rhetorical implements to build social movements, shape political culture, and guide development work. Rights language is now invoked in churches, political campaigns, rock concerts, and organizational mission statements. Chong presents a social theory of human rights to provide a framework for understanding these changes and defending the legitimacy of these rights. Freedom from Poverty analyzes new trends in the evolution of human rights by combining constructivist and postpositivist legal approaches. This book provides valuable concepts to human rights practitioners, political scientists, antipoverty advocates, and leaders who are serious about ending widespread privation and disease.
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Author: Martha F. Davis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788977513
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788977513
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor
Author: Bueren, Geraldine van
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Empowering the Poor
Author: Formisano, Maritza Prada
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9230010278
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9230010278
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
Author: Gillian MacNaughton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316518698
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume examines the potential of human rights to challenge economic inequalities and their adverse impacts on human wellbeing.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316518698
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume examines the potential of human rights to challenge economic inequalities and their adverse impacts on human wellbeing.
Migration in Political Theory
Author: Sarah Fine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199676607
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume presents the latest work on the ethics of movement and membership by a team of leading international scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping this field.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199676607
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This volume presents the latest work on the ethics of movement and membership by a team of leading international scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping this field.
The ECHR and Human Rights Theory
Author: Alain Zysset
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317248139
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory literature: the ethical and the political, against the practice of the ECHR ‘system’. The book also addresses the history of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an international legal and political institution. The book offers a democratic defence of the authority of the ECtHR. It illustrates how a conception of democracy – more specifically, the egalitarian argument for democracy developed by Thomas Christiano on the domestic level – can illuminate the reasoning of the Court, including the allocation of the margin of appreciation on a significant number of issues. Alain Zysset argues that the justification of the authority of the ECtHR – its prominent status in the domestic legal orders – reinforces the democratic process within States Parties, thereby consolidating our status as political equals in those legal and political orders.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317248139
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory literature: the ethical and the political, against the practice of the ECHR ‘system’. The book also addresses the history of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an international legal and political institution. The book offers a democratic defence of the authority of the ECtHR. It illustrates how a conception of democracy – more specifically, the egalitarian argument for democracy developed by Thomas Christiano on the domestic level – can illuminate the reasoning of the Court, including the allocation of the margin of appreciation on a significant number of issues. Alain Zysset argues that the justification of the authority of the ECtHR – its prominent status in the domestic legal orders – reinforces the democratic process within States Parties, thereby consolidating our status as political equals in those legal and political orders.