un human rights council goldstone report

... Malcolm B. Smith. 6 WORLD REPORT 2011 The United Nations and Its Member States The obsession with dialogue and cooperation is particularly intense at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where ... willingness to acknowledge its human rights failings, wel- INTRODUCTION 21 Each country entry identifies significant human rights issues, examines the freedom of local human rights 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...

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... ”: HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’. 28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper- spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights. 29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1of Chapter2. 30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevant includecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegal studiesmovement. 31Marie-Be ´ ne ´ dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence: TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),Insideand OutsidetheLaw: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)and RichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),Costas Douzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics) protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua (Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthis briefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebates abouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries. 34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido- latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(which doesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseof theterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’. 35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whom IclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literally training, ... to a gap between the human rights ideal (the promise that every human being enjoys a number of fundamental rights) and the practice (a world where human rights violations abound and where many ... the human rights field. The rights guaranteed by the Convention The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948. The European Convention on Human Rights was...

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... Declaration on Human Rights 37 * Typical structure of an International Convention on Human Rights 38 * Sources of data 39 * References 40 * ANNEX I - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 I - ... on Human Rights 20 4.2.1 Purposes 20 4.2.2 Typical legal characteristics 20 4.3 A study of discourse structure and some major linguistic features of the International Convention on Human Rights ... INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 3.1 Definition of an International Declaration 10 3.2 Purposes and typical legal characteristics of the International 10 Declaration on Human Rights 3.2.1 Purposes...

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... E.g.: Universal Declaration of Human Rights and European Charter on Human Rights. (European Convention on Human Rights) . Charter of the United Nations; Universal Declaration of Human Rights; ... in Human rights studies, understand content of International Declarations and Conventions on Human Rights 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) ....

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... cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms ... that the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 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 human rights have resulted in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:17

... below. 65 Tay, Human Rights , 5. 166 This ICCPR treaty organisation is different from the UN Charter-derived Human Rights Council which replaced, in 2006, the Commission on Human Rights. 167 See ... implored a human, as opposed to national, response. Human rights received their fundamental codification in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which will at times be referred to as ‘the Universal ... his calculus. See too pp. 3, 94. 198 Galtung, Human Rights, pp. 11–12. 199 An-Na’im, ‘Islam and Human Rights , 95–6; and his ‘Universal Cultural Legitimacy’. 100 See Council for a Parliament of the World’s...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... show in respect of human rights orthodoxy. Human rights are most commonly represented as given – inherent and inalien- able. Against this stance, I have intimated that human rights is a ‘system ... book because I found the idea of human rights both attractive and unconvincing, if not positively dangerous. This ambivalence drove me to ask: can we/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...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... Thus, for example, the universality of human rights is the starting point of Jack Donnelly’s widely acclaimed Universal Human Rights. 9 On the link between human rights and a humanist philosophy ... enraged as I am by the pretence of universality found in the liberal account of human rights but who think the uni- versality of human rights derives from the universality of resistance to oppression ... ”: HumanRightsandthePoliticsofFatalism’. 28ForexampleBrownseemsinterestedneitherinaliberalnorahumanrightsper- spective;Benthamwasaliberalbutdidnotbelieveinhumanrights. 29ForexcellentlegalcommentariesontheConvention,seereferencesgiveninnote1of Chapter2. 30Critiqueswhicharenotdiscussedinthebookbutwouldhavebeenhighlyrelevant includecommunitarianism,criticalracetheoryandstrandswithinthecriticallegal studiesmovement. 31Marie-Be ´ ne ´ dicteDembour,‘HumanRightsTalkandAnthropologicalAmbivalence: TheParticularContextsofUniversalClaims’,inOliviaHarris(ed.),Insideand OutsidetheLaw: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)and RichardWilson(Anthropology)deliberativescholars;UpendraBaxi(Law),Costas Douzinas(Law),GuyHaarscher(Philosophy)andKenBooth(InternationalPolitics) protestscholars;TalalAsad(Anthropology),WendyBrown(Politics),MakauMutua (Law)andmyself(Law,withatraininginAnthropology)discoursescholars.Asthis briefpresentationmakesclear,Idonotbelievethatfault-linesinscholarlydebates abouthumanrightsfollowdisciplinaryboundaries. 34Thus,MichaelIgnatieffqualifiesareligious-likeapproachtohumanrightsas‘ido- latry’:Ignatieff,HumanRights.Thissecular-likeapproachtohumanrights(which doesnotpreventdeliberativescholarsfrombeingreligiousintheprimarysenseof theterm)isalsohumanist:Fagan,‘ParadoxicalBedfellows’. 35IthinkIshouldbeallowedtheuseoftheword‘disciple’:GuyHaarscher,whom IclassifyasaprotestscholarinChapter8,usestheFrenchword‘dressage’(literally training,...

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... scholars make of the universality of human rights. The soothing or unsettling effect of the universality of human rights: Donnelly versus Haarscher Jack Donnelly’s Universal Human Rights in Theory ... respect human rights, at least by and large. They envisage human rights law to be a continuation of the human rights ideal and typically speak of the development of international human rights ... lawenunciations of human rights is not the . . . primary . . . source of origin of human rights . 122 Moreover these enunciations cannot be taken at face value: ‘While [epistemic human rights communities]...

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... COMMUNICATIONS 3HAREUNDERSTANDINGOFWHY HUMAN RIGHTS AREIMPORTANTTOBUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS )NTEGRATE HUMAN RIGHTS INTOYOURINTERNALANDEXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONSWHEREAPPROPRIATE #OMMUNICATEPROCEDURESTOEMPLOYEESANDBUSINESSPARTNERS -AKEPROCEDURESAVAILABLEINLOCALLANGUAGESANDACCESSIBLETO THOSEUNABLETOREAD /PENLYACKNOWLEDGEEVENTSWHERETHECOMPANYRANINTODIFlCULTYOR COULDHAVEDEALTWITHAPROBLEMMOREEFFECTIVELY 5SEOPENANDONGOINGCOMMUNICATIONASAVEHICLETOGAINACTIVE SUPPORTFROMSTAKEHOLDERSINRESOLVINGPROBLEMS VII ... COMMUNICATIONS 3HAREUNDERSTANDINGOFWHY HUMAN RIGHTS AREIMPORTANTTOBUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS )NTEGRATE HUMAN RIGHTS INTOYOURINTERNALANDEXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONSWHEREAPPROPRIATE #OMMUNICATEPROCEDURESTOEMPLOYEESANDBUSINESSPARTNERS -AKEPROCEDURESAVAILABLEINLOCALLANGUAGESANDACCESSIBLETO THOSEUNABLETOREAD /PENLYACKNOWLEDGEEVENTSWHERETHECOMPANYRANINTODIFlCULTYOR COULDHAVEDEALTWITHAPROBLEMMOREEFFECTIVELY 5SEOPENANDONGOINGCOMMUNICATIONASAVEHICLETOGAINACTIVE SUPPORTFROMSTAKEHOLDERSINRESOLVINGPROBLEMS VII ... the help of the new country entry checklist and inter- national human rights reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, OMV reects on the general human rights situa- tion, how...

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... be held accountable for their legal commitments to one another. Rather, it was the idea that human rights – rights of domestic citizens – could be brought under this broader accountability trend in ... that international human rights law has made a positive con- tribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights 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...

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... International Council on Human Rights Policy, for example, in a March 2000 report on the performance and legitimacy of national human rights institutions, recommended that “national human rights institutions ... Gomez, "Social economic rights and human rights commissions" in Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 17, No. l (February, 1995), pp. 155-169. 09 International Council on Human Rights Policy, Performance ... that the Quebec Human Rights Commission and an Ontario human rights tribunal had found that treatment of social assistance recipients to be discriminatory. See also National Human Rights Institutions:...

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... Rapporteur UNCT United Nations Country Team UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFPA ... to human rights reporting and mechanisms, including State and “shadow reporting” to UN treaty bodies, special procedures mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council 3 and reports to the Councils ... further the realization of human rights as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other international human rights instruments. Process: Human rights standards and principles...

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... Reproductive Health and Rights STI Sexually Transmitted Infection SWAp Sector Wide Approach UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNGASS United Nations ... Reproductive Health and Human Rights of PLHIV 7 Imperatives of both human rights 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...

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... Human Rights and the two treaties represent a milestone for humanity: the recognition that human rights 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 Human Rights 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...

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