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Human Rights Violations Committed Against Human Rights Defenders Through the Use of Legal System: A Trend in Europe and Beyond
Human rights defenders (HRDs) fight for various human rights and address concerns related to corruption, employment, the environment, and other...
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Excursus I: Values and Human Rights
This chapter, “Values and Human Rights,” explores the complex interplay between human rights, values, and societal dynamics within the European...
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Alasdair MacIntyre on Human Rights
Alasdair MacIntyre is, probably, the most important author writing within the Thomistic tradition who is critical of the notion of human rights. Most...
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Human Rights and Transitional Justice in the Maldives: Closing the Door, Once and For All?
In 2020, the Maldives instituted a transitional justice process to address decades of systematic human rights abuses including the widespread use of...
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Uncovering Economic Complicity: Explaining State-Led Human Rights Abuses in the Corporate Context
Today’s scholarship and policymaking on business and human rights (BHR) urges businesses to better understand their human rights responsibilities and...
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Jacques Maritain on Human Rights
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) is widely recognized as one of the most important authors writing on human rights in the twentieth century. Samuel Moyn...
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The Resurgence of Enforced Disappearances in the Aftermath of the July 15, 2016 Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey: A Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Violations
After the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Turkey rapidly adjusted its national security strategies to align with the principles of a security...
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Rights reclamation
According to a rights forfeiture theory of punishment, liability to punishment hinges upon the notion that criminals forfeit their rights against...
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Contemplating the principles of the UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights: a bioaesthetic experience
The purpose of our article is to contemplate, from an aesthetic-artistic vision, the principles of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human...
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Michel Villey’s Critique on Human Rights
The first Thomistic philosopher to critically engage with the notion of human rights was Michel Villey. Villey is arguably the most important French...
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Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health Ethics
This chapter has four main points. First, I argue that the human rightsHuman rights approach to public health ethicsEthics, championed by Jonathan...
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Employee Rights
Does drug testing violate an employee’s right to privacy? Should companies be able to fire employees without cause? Is there a right to a safe...
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The Legal Dimensions of Human Rights
Along this fourth and final chapter I transfer the philosophical discourse on human rights into a proper legal dimension. I begin with a hypothesis...
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Human Rights and Pluralist Universalism
In this chapter I present the philosophical justification of the theory of human rights here proposed. I begin by confronting two approaches with the...
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Cosmopolitanism, International Development and Human Rights
This chapter shows that cosmopolitanism, international development and human rights can be articulated in ways that are more or less supportive of...
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EU Citizens’ Access to Welfare Rights: How (not) to Think About Unreasonable Burdens?
Defenders of current restrictions on EU immigrants’ access to welfare rights in host member states often invoke a principle of reciprocity among...
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The Rights-Forfeiture Theory of Punishment
The rights-forfeiture theory of punishment attempts to explain and justify the practice of punishment by arguing that wrongdoers in virtue of their...