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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, it set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.
28 de mai. de 2008 · On the level of rights talk, the Palestinian case is more deeply revealing of the extent to which the supposed global promise of human rights is broken whenever it seriously collides with geopolitical priorities, what I am calling with deliberate irony, ‘the rights of power.’
- Richard Falk
- 2008
13 de set. de 2020 · This book celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by showing how global human rights norms have influenced national government practices in eleven different countries around the world.
9 de nov. de 2005 · John Locke defined political power as “a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less Penalties” (Two Treatises 2.3). Locke’s theory of punishment is thus central to his view of politics and part of what he considered innovative about his political philosophy.
Human Rights, set up in 1993, has developed a positive, if low-key, track record for documenting some human rights abuses and recom- mending changes in government policy.
19 de dez. de 2005 · Rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as many now see it. To accept a set of rights is to approve a distribution of freedom and authority, and so to endorse a certain view of what may, must, and must not be done.
It updates our understanding of the various causal mechanisms and conditions which produce behavioral compliance, and expands the range of rights-violating actors examined to include democratic and authoritarian Great Powers, corporations, guerr illa groups, and private actors.
