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Democracy and human rights are universal values that should be vigorously promoted around the world. They are integral to effective work on poverty alleviation and conflict prevention and resolution, in addition to being valuable bulwarks against terrorism.
This book is organized around an interlinked set of problems, the relation between democracy and human rights, democracy’s definition and justification, its institutional and societal conditions, the ...
Human rights are basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. Proponents of the concept usually assert that all humans are endowed with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human. Human rights are thus conceived in a universalist and egalitarian fashion. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities as justified moral norms or natural rights supported by strong reasons or as legal rights either at a national level ...
Social justice is a cross cutting principle in international human rights law. The principle is present in all the major human rights treaties and provides the central theme of some of international human rights conventions such as the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial discrimination and the convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women.
The present book has a unique perspective that views human rights ...
Every woman and girl is entitled to the realization of all human rights--civil, political, economic, social and cultural--on equal terms with men, free from discrimination. Women and girls also enjoy certain human rights specifically linked to their status as women. The world has recognized that the human rights of women and of the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights.
This book analyses how international human ...
Effective human rights education has two essential objectives: learning about human rights and learning for human rights. Learning about human rights is largely cognitive including human rights history documents and implementation mechanisms. Learning for human rights means understanding and embracing the principles of human equality and dignity and the commitment to respect and protect the rights of all people.
This book is intended to help people who care ...
The society of the beginning of the twenty-first century is, more than ever before, a globalised society. One of the most expressive effects of globalisation has been the generalised increase in the processes of urbanisation all over the world. Large cities have little by little become metropolises that in most cases are increasingly diffuse or include a whole series of occupied and peripheral spaces, accompanied by the appearance of human agglomerations, poor ...
Volume Title: V. 1. Human rights and law; V. 2. Human rights and social justice; V. 3. Global agenda for human rights -- v. 4. Human rights education and training; V. 5. Dalits and human rights; V. 6. Globalization and human rights; V. 7. Human rights : issues and perspectives; V. 8. Children and human rights; V. 9. Democracy and human rights; V.10.Women and human rights.