The International Library of Essays on Rights: The International Library of Essays on Rights
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Manisuli Ssenyonjo
March 28, 2011
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a collection of seminal papers examining legal, conceptual and practical questions regarding the international legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The volume discusses what human rights obligations economic, social and cultural rights ...
Health Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael J. Selgelid, Thomas Pogge
October 28, 2010
Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care. The volume discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors, how they relate to and potentially ...
Indigenous Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony J. Connolly
April 17, 2009
Throughout the world, indigenous rights have become increasingly prominent and controversial. The recent adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the latest in a series of significant developments in the recognition of such rights ...
Group Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Jones
March 28, 2009
Nowadays, rights are frequently ascribed to groups distinguished by their nationality, culture, religion or language. Rights are also commonly ascribed to institutionalised groups, such as states, businesses, trade unions and private associations. Yet the ascription of rights to groups remains ...
Human Rights and Corporations
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kinley
February 28, 2009
The erstwhile unlikely coupling of human rights and corporations is now a typical feature of corporate/community relations. High-profile corporate infringements of human rights, the rise and rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and on-going efforts to regulate corporate behaviour through ...
Civil Rights and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By David Dyzenhaus
January 08, 2009
This collection of previously published work on security and rights focuses on the appropriate relationship between rights and what we can think of as counterterrorism policy. Such a focus might seem both necessary, because of 9/11, and unfortunate, because there are other causes of insecurity ...
Animal Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Palmer
August 28, 2008
Do animals have moral rights? If so, which ones? How does this affect our thinking about agriculture and experimentation? If animals have moral rights, should they be protected by law? These are some of the questions addressed in this collection, which contains more than 30 papers spanning nearly ...
Bills of Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Tushnet
April 28, 2007
This collection examines the justifications for using bills of rights to protect fundamental human rights and the mechanisms for enforcing provisions in those documents. Articles deal with different forms of judicial enforcement and with legislative enforcement, of rights protected by such ...
Theories of Rights
1st Edition
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By C.L. Ten
August 28, 2006
To those who invoke them, rights are powerful instruments for settling arguments in favour of the right-holders. But the nature, provenance and justification of rights are uncertain and disputed and there are doubts about whether rights should play a distinctive and fundamental role in moral and ...
Disability Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Blanck
September 12, 2005
There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume ...