... Malcolm B. Smith. 6WORLD REPORT 2011The United Nations and Its Member StatesThe obsession with dialogue and cooperation is particularly intense at the UN HumanRightsCouncil in Geneva, where ... willingness to acknowledge its humanrights failings, wel- INTRODUCTION21Each country entry identifies significant humanrights issues, examines thefreedom of local humanrights defenders to conduct ... this volume. They can be found on the Human Rights Watch website, www.hrw.org.As in past years, this report does not include a chapter on every country where Human Rights Watch works, nor does...
... ”:HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’.28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper-spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights.29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1ofChapter2.30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevantincludecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegalstudiesmovement.31Marie-Be´ne´dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence:TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),InsideandOutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London:Routledge,1996)19–40.32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4.33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics),AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern-ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)andRichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),CostasDouzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics)protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua(Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthisbriefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebatesabouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries.34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido-latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(whichdoesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseoftheterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’.35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whomIclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literallytraining, ... to a gap between the human rights ideal (the promise that every human being enjoys a number offundamental rights) and the practice (a world where humanrights violationsabound and where many ... the human rights field.The rights guaranteed by the ConventionThe Universal Declaration of HumanRights was proclaimed by the UnitedNations in 1948. The European Convention on HumanRights was...
... Declaration on HumanRights 37* Typical structure of an International Convention on HumanRights 38* Sources of data 39* References 40* ANNEX I- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 I- ... on HumanRights 204.2.1 Purposes 204.2.2 Typical legal characteristics 204.3 A study of discourse structure and some major linguistic features of the International Convention on HumanRights ... INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 3.1 Definition of an International Declaration 103.2 Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10Declaration on Human Rights 3.2.1 Purposes...
... E.g.: Universal Declaration of HumanRights and European Charter on Human Rights. (European Convention on Human Rights) . Charter of the United Nations; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; ... in Humanrights studies, understand content of International Declarations and Conventions on HumanRights structurally and linguistically.- peoples, who are interested in the topic, have fundamental ... of the Council of Europe. It shall be ratified. Ratifications shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe. (Articles 59.1 of European Convention on Human Rights) ....
... cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of humanrights and fundamental freedoms, Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms ... that the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of HumanRights and in the International Covenants on Human Rights, proclaimed and agreed that everyone is entitled to all the rights ... equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for humanrights have resulted in...
... below.65Tay, HumanRights , 5.166This ICCPR treaty organisation is different from the UN Charter-derived Human Rights Council which replaced, in 2006, the Commission on Human Rights. 167See ... implored a human, as opposed to national, response. Human rights received their fundamental codification in the UniversalDeclaration of HumanRights (which will at times be referred to as ‘theUniversal ... hiscalculus. See too pp. 3, 94.198Galtung, Human Rights, pp. 11–12.199An-Na’im, ‘Islam and HumanRights , 95–6; and his ‘Universal Cultural Legitimacy’.100See Council for a Parliament of the World’s...
... show in respect of humanrights orthodoxy. Human rights are most commonly represented as given – inherent and inalien-able. Against this stance, I have intimated that humanrights is a ‘system ... book because I found the idea of humanrights both attractive andunconvincing, if not positively dangerous. This ambivalence drove me to ask: canwe/should we believe in human rights? The last ... reason: to them, human rights is the best language we have to set human beings free of oppression.Deliberative scholars do not think the issue is a matter of faith: they look at human rights as good...
... Thus, for example, the universality of humanrights is the starting point of JackDonnelly’s widely acclaimed Universal Human Rights. 9 On the link between humanrights and a humanist philosophy ... enraged as I am by the pretence ofuniversality found in the liberal account of humanrights but who think the uni-versality of humanrights derives from the universality of resistance to oppression ... ”:HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’.28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper-spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights.29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1ofChapter2.30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevantincludecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegalstudiesmovement.31Marie-Be´ne´dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence:TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),InsideandOutsidetheLaw:AnthropologicalStudiesofAuthorityandAmbiguity(London:Routledge,1996)19–40.32ToborrowanexpressionfoundinDouzinas,EndofHumanRights,at4.33Thus,togiveafewexamples,IsurmiseinChapter8thatJackDonnelly(Politics),AlanGewirth(Philosophy),MichaelPerry(Law)andMichaelFreeman(Govern-ment)arenaturalscholars;MichaelIgnatieff(History),ConorGearty(Law)andRichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),CostasDouzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics)protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua(Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthisbriefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebatesabouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries.34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido-latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(whichdoesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseoftheterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’.35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whomIclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literallytraining,...
... scholars makeof the universality of human rights. The soothing or unsettling effect of the universality of human rights: Donnelly versus HaarscherJack Donnelly’s Universal HumanRights in Theory ... respect human rights, atleast by and large. They envisage humanrights law to be a continuation of the human rights ideal and typically speak of the development of international human rights ... lawenunciations of humanrights isnot the . . . primary . . . source of origin of humanrights .122Moreover theseenunciations cannot be taken at face value: ‘While [epistemic human rights communities]...
... COMMUNICATIONS 3HAREUNDERSTANDINGOFWHY HUMANRIGHTS AREIMPORTANTTOBUSINESSCOMMUNICATIONS)NTEGRATE HUMANRIGHTS INTOYOURINTERNALANDEXTERNALCOMMUNICATIONSWHEREAPPROPRIATE#OMMUNICATEPROCEDURESTOEMPLOYEESANDBUSINESSPARTNERS-AKEPROCEDURESAVAILABLEINLOCALLANGUAGESANDACCESSIBLETOTHOSEUNABLETOREAD/PENLYACKNOWLEDGEEVENTSWHERETHECOMPANYRANINTODIFlCULTYORCOULDHAVEDEALTWITHAPROBLEMMOREEFFECTIVELY5SEOPENANDONGOINGCOMMUNICATIONASAVEHICLETOGAINACTIVESUPPORTFROMSTAKEHOLDERSINRESOLVINGPROBLEMSVII ... COMMUNICATIONS 3HAREUNDERSTANDINGOFWHY HUMANRIGHTS AREIMPORTANTTOBUSINESSCOMMUNICATIONS)NTEGRATE HUMANRIGHTS INTOYOURINTERNALANDEXTERNALCOMMUNICATIONSWHEREAPPROPRIATE#OMMUNICATEPROCEDURESTOEMPLOYEESANDBUSINESSPARTNERS-AKEPROCEDURESAVAILABLEINLOCALLANGUAGESANDACCESSIBLETOTHOSEUNABLETOREAD/PENLYACKNOWLEDGEEVENTSWHERETHECOMPANYRANINTODIFlCULTYORCOULDHAVEDEALTWITHAPROBLEMMOREEFFECTIVELY5SEOPENANDONGOINGCOMMUNICATIONASAVEHICLETOGAINACTIVESUPPORTFROMSTAKEHOLDERSINRESOLVINGPROBLEMSVII ... the help of the new country entry checklist and inter-national humanrights reports by Amnesty International and HumanRights Watch, OMV reects on the general humanrights situa-tion, how...
... be held accountable for their legalcommitments to one another. Rather, it was the idea that humanrights – rights of domestic citizens – could be brought under this broader accountability trendin ... that international humanrights law has made a positive con-tribution to the realization of humanrights in much of the world. Althoughgovernments sometimes ratify humanrights treaties, gambling ... name of human rights as never before, but our interventions are sometimes making matters worse. Our interventions,instead of reinforcing human rights, may be consuming their legitimacy as a universalistic...
... International Council on HumanRights Policy, forexample, in a March 2000 report on the performance and legitimacy of national human rights institutions, recommended that “national humanrights institutions ... Gomez,"Social economic rights and humanrights commissions" in HumanRights Quarterly, vol. 17, No. l(February, 1995), pp. 155-169.09International Council on HumanRights Policy, Performance ... that the Quebec HumanRights Commission and an Ontario humanrights tribunal hadfound that treatment of social assistance recipients to be discriminatory. See also National Human Rights Institutions:...
... RapporteurUNCT United Nations Country TeamUNDAF United Nations Development Assistance FrameworkUDHR Universal Declaration of HumanRights UN United NationsUNDP United Nations Development ProgrammeUNFPA ... to humanrights reporting and mechanisms, including State and “shadow reporting” to UN treaty bodies, special procedures mandate-holders of the HumanRights Council 3 and reports to the Councils ... further the realization of humanrights as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international humanrights instruments.Process: Humanrights standards and principles...
... Reproductive Health and Rights STI Sexually Transmitted InfectionSWAp Sector Wide ApproachUNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDSUNFPA United Nations Population FundUNGASS United Nations ... Reproductive Health and HumanRights of PLHIV 7Imperatives of both humanrights and public health require that health care and legal systems support the sexual and reproductive health and rights of people ... positive diagnosis. Health systems offer voluntary HIV testing and counselling under different models in a variety of settings. One model is voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), which has a...
... HumanRights and the two treaties represent a milestone forhumanity: the recognition that humanrights are founded on human dig-nity and that human dignity is shared by all members of the human ... two treaties, and implementation measures.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of HumanRights was adopted by the UN Gen-eral Assembly in 1948 without dissent, ... rea-sonable for public health to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its code of ethics. The unification of public health and human rights workers around the globe would be a powerful force...