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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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Human Rights
Chapter 6 focuses on human rights. Not a day goes by without news of human rights abuses. There is a growing awareness that company products and...
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An Update on the Ethical Breadth of the Human Rights Concept
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) approved by the United Nations (UN) in 1948 includes the most widely accepted list of individual...
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Human Rights
Ideally, human rights exist independently of any state regime but, in truth, have little effect if not allocated on the basis of membership of at...
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Academic Bullying and Human Rights: Is It Time to Take Them Seriously?
Notwithstanding universities’ many laudable aims, incidents of serious bullying, academic harassment and sexual harassment in academic settings are...
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Business Strategy as Human Rights Risk: the Case of Private Equity
In this article, we apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the private equity (PE) business model. PE firms often adopt a...
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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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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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Human Rights Legal Education in Times of Transition: Perspectives and Practices of Law Instructors in Myanmar
This mixed-methods study examines the human rights and human rights education and training (HRET) perspectives and practices of law educators in...
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Human Rights Penality and Violence Against Women: The Coloniality of Disembodied Justice
Despite the persistence of violence inside and around prisons, and the dubious adequacy of criminal law to respond to victim–survivors, international...
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What Are Human Rights?
This chapter presents a concise overview of human rights, exploring the distinctions between moral and legal human rights. It discusses the...
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The Evolution of Child Marriage as a Human Rights Concern
The elimination of child marriage is a goal that ranks high on the agendas of civil society organizations, national governments, and multilateral...
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Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program
This paper investigates necessary conditions for develo** a participatory, rightsholder-driven approach to remedy for business-related human rights...
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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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Liars, Skeptics, Cheerleaders: Human Rights Implications of Post-Truth Disinformation from State Officials and Politicians
The purpose of this paper is to philosophically examine how disinformation from state officials and politicians affects the right to access to...
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Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights
This chapter presents a business ethics framework that can be used to determine the moral responsibility that firms have when it comes to human...
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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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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...
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Climate Change and Human Rights
Since 2007, climate change has officially been considered a threat to the enjoyment of human rights. Its impacts have been observed practically...
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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...