Results 1 to 10 of about 3,882,399 (316)
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1977 What are human rights? In this article Enoch Powell, MP (a former Conservative Minister of Health), approaches this question through a critical discussion of Article 25 (I) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Professor R S Downie in his accompanying commentary analyses Mr Powell's statements and takes up in particular Mr Powell'
J, Edsall, J, Primack
openaire +4 more sources
Transgender Rights as Human Rights [PDF]
AMA Journal of Ethics, 2016 Arguments to support transgender rights often rely on "born that way" arguments, which assert that gender identity is innate, immutable, and unassociated with choice. These arguments are vulnerable to attack on several grounds, including on the basis of emerging scientific data. Stronger support for transgender rights arises from human rights arguments.
Tia, Powell, Sophia, Shapiro, Ed, Stein
openaire +2 more sources
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2022 Current and future challenges are in need of an effective human rights response. In ensuring this, the question can be asked whether there is such a thing as human rights overreach, and if so, what must be done about it. This contribution deals with this question by, first, outlining various forms of human rights proliferation.
Farahat, A., Leijten, I.
openaire +4 more sources
Humans Rights Against Human Rights
Counterfutures, 2021 Review of Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism. A new history of the parallel rise of neoliberalism and human rights.
openaire +2 more sources
"Taking the human out of human rights" human rights or group rights? [PDF]
Filozofija i drustvo, 2015 What interest me are the reasons why ?human? or ?human rights? could be important or possibly most important in constituting a group (hence the introduction of the complicated word ?group? and ?group right(s)? in the subtitle). If I had to justify the existence of the latest debates on nature, justification and universality of human rights,
openaire +5 more sources
Rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: plurality and contestation, not consensus [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I examine the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. My analysis counters conventional narratives of consensus and imposition that characterize the development of the UN human rights regime.
AGI Marc +41 more
core +1 more source
Relativizing Human Rights [PDF]
Journal of Human Rights, 2012 Standards-based measures of country human rights performance yields a performance ranking for countries that is “absolute” or reflects the current state of human rights performance without taking into account the relative social, political, or economic conditions within countries.
Landman, T, Kernohan, D, Gohdes, A
openaire +3 more sources
Reclaiming Refugee Rights as Human Rights [PDF]
, 2019 On April 5, 2019, PILR held their triennial symposium titled: Revisiting Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 70.
Amit, Roni
core +2 more sources
Human Security: Undermining Human Rights? [PDF]
, 2012 This article warns that the human security discourse and agenda could inadvertently undermine the international human rights regime. Insofar as human security identifies new threats to well-being, new victims of those threats, new duties of states, or ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
core +3 more sources
Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season: A Report Based on Surveys in Two Rural Districts in Uzbekistan [PDF]
, 2008 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Human Rights Defenders in Uzbekistan +1 more
core +1 more source