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Foreign aid donors, domestic actors, and human rights violations: the politics and diplomacy of opposing Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act
How should aid donors respond to human rights violations in ‘recipient’ countries? Much of the literature on this topic focuses on whether donors use...
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Wielding the human rights weapon against the American empire: the second Russell Tribunal and human rights in transatlantic relations
The article discusses the evolution from the 1966–1967 “first” Russell Tribunal, an unofficial and political gathering that censured the USA for its...
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Property Rights and the International Law System
Violations of the property rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups are ubiquitous worldwide. Although a right to property has been formulated in...
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The Internal and External Human Rights Diplomacy of the European Union the Economic Giant Became a Decisive International Human Rights Actor?
The chapter addresses the internal and external human rights diplomacy of the EU in details. Even though the EU did not start its career as a...
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Cosmopolitanism About Justice: Specifying Universality
In search of a more suitable understanding of cosmopolitanism, the chapters of Part II analyse various attempts in literature to specify the concept...
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Political Philosophy Against Populism: Democratic Theory of Justice as Justification of Human Rights and Citizenship in Political
This chapter proposes the political philosophy of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas as a justification of a democratic political community in a...
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Exporting the Digital Human Rights Norm
This chapter looks at the ways in which states and organizations leverage international relationships to promote global norm diffusion. By examining...
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The rise of China and the strategy of universality of international law
The idea of universality significantly influences the spirit, structure, and direction of international law. The Western world initially expounded...
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The United Nations Human Rights Council: A Platform for the Clash of Civilizations or a Forum of Cross-Regional Cooperation?
This chapter concludes that the UN Human Rights Council did not become a platform for the clash of civilizations. It does not mean, however, that...
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Personalising Human Rights
This chapter looks into this question through the contested norm of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights. I examine the relationship...
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The Institutionalisation of Human Rights in ASEAN
The main argument of this chapter is that norms matter to the institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN. It provides a set of values to inform...
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Implementing Universal Human Rights Standards in and by Sub-Saharan African States in the Shade of Local Traditions
This chapter addresses the implementation of universal human rights standards in and by sub-Saharan African States. The social and political concerns...
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Contemporary Developments in Human and Peoples’ Rights Protection in Africa: Insights from the African Union
Human rights discourse tends to focus more on the abuse and remedy of substantive rights thereby limiting them to issues of enforcement and remedy...
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Theoretical and Legal Framework: Statelessness, Citizenship, and Rights Associated with Citizenship
This chapter has twin goals. I begin by outlining the concept of statelessness and then explore the distinction between de jure statelessness and de...
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Human Rights in Central Asian States and European Initiatives
In January 2022, over 230 people were shot dead in the Kazak metropole Almaty. The government reported over 4.300 injuries within one week, after...
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Indonesia and Human Rights in ASEAN
This chapter analyses the links between institutionalisation of human rights and the nature of ASEAN diplomatic practices. It identifies the ‘doxa’...
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The Perceived Universality of the West and the Silencing of “Africa” in Western Syllabi of International Relations
Teaching on International Relations (IR) in the West, including teaching on Africa from an IR standpoint, is still often done through a western gaze....
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Children in Times of War and World Disorder in the Twenty-First Century: The International Law and Children’s Human Rights
Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child makes explicit reference to children’s right to say what they think about...