Can We Still Afford Human Rights?
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-031-4 (ISBN)
Expert contributors illustrate the interdependence between these three key issues in an unprecedented way, addressing many of the contemporary criticisms voiced against the human rights system and the reasons for popular skepticism about human rights. In order to interrogate the deficiencies of the UDHR, chapters analyse the following questions: Can and should we keep claiming that human rights are universal? Is their proliferation rendering human rights meaningless? And have human rights become too costly? The book concludes that there is a pressing need for a renewed and lasting commitment to human rights. We cannot afford not to afford human rights.
This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, the political sciences and comparative legal studies. Covering policy and advocacy issues as well as the evolution of case law regarding particular human rights, it will also be beneficial for policy-makers and human rights practitioners.
Edited by Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Koen Lemmens, Professor of International and European Human Rights Law and Media Law, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Thomas Van Poecke, formerly KU Leuven and Marie Bourguignon, PhD Researcher, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Belgium
Contents:
INTRODUCTION
1.The Interdependence of Issues Relating to the Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human Rights
Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen Lemmens
PART I: THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
2.The Mythic Universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: Revisiting the Drafting History of the UDHR in Search for a Foundational Theory
Nick Goetschalckx
3.The Case for a Comprehensive Global Human Rights Treaty under UN Auspices
Prof. Dr. Konstantinos D. Magliveras
4.The Universality of Human Rights: A European perspective
Prof. Dr. Paul Lemmens
5.Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships under the ECHR: Till Death – or the Lack of European Consensus – Do Us Part
Dr. Johan Lievens and Nele Verbrugghe
Part II: THE PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
6.The Proliferation of Human Rights: Between Devotion and Calculation
Prof. Dr. Kasey McCall-Smith
7.Human Rights Adjudication: Between Hopes and Failures
Dr. Dalia Palombo
8.Sustainable Development in “New Generation” Trade Agreements of the European Union: Towards Integration or Fragmentation of the Human Rights Language?’
Michelle Meulebrouck
9.Denationalization under the EC(t)HR: A Need for an Autonomous Human Right to a Nationality?
Louise Reyntjens
PART III: THE COSTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
10.Economic, Social and Political Costs of the (Non-)Realization of Human Rights: Towards a New Social Contract
Prof. Dr. Felipe Gómez Isa
11.Conflicts in Human Rights-Based Development
Dr. Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters
12.Rights and Development: The Costs of Human Rights in Ethiopia
Dr. Dina Townsend and Dr. Nicky Broeckhoven
13.The Least Financially Accountable Branch? The Right to Health and the Judiciary’s Power of the Purse: An Israeli Perspective
Dr. Hillel Sommer
CONCLUSION
14.The Human Rights Project: Perspectives on Universality, Proliferation and Costs of Human Rights
Dima Yared
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Leuven Global Governance series |
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83910-031-1 / 1839100311 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83910-031-4 / 9781839100314 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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