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Human Rights and Human Rights Politics
Human rights are a topical issue. But what are human rights and what are their characteristics? Without a doubt, they are particularly fundamental...
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Contested Human Rights
This chapter explores the first documents demarcating human rights’ manifestation as an idea and then the way its meaning has changed, in particular,...
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Are Human Rights Universal?
More than seven decades after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human RightsUniversal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (UDHR) in 1948,...
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Human Rights in the World Community: Issues, Challenges, and Action Proposed
Protection of human rights is of paramount significance for peace and peacekee** in the world community. The idea of human rights was globally...
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Human Rights: A Concrete Utopian Concept
It seems that things are not looking all that bad when it comes to the Human Rights cause today. Today powerful protagonists who speak out on behalf...
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Regional and Global Human Rights Policy
There is no doubt whatsoever that from a human rights perspective, the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, starts...
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Can European Mechanisms on Human Rights Be Applied in South Asia?
This chapter analyzes whether or not the development of the European mechanisms of human rights can serve as a model for similar developments in...
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Populism, Human Rights, and (Un-)Civil Society
In retrospective, the hope—particularly strong in the 1990s—that a vigorous civil society provided a secure pathway towards a robust, consolidated...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Normative Benchmark for Southeast Asia?
The study of the regional dynamics of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a way to assess its normative power. Sometimes seen as locally...
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Conclusion: Finding Hope in Human Rights Research
Hope is a desire for something different, something better, and something attainable. It is not a wish. Hope is something planned for, manifested,...
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Climate Change and the Realization of Human Rights in Africa
Climate change has undeniable long-term consequences on the environment which in turn seriously undermines the enjoyment of human rights. Africa is...
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Peace Accords and Human Rights
Peace agreementsPeacepeace accords, peace agreements and human rights are closely interwoven. About 70% of all peace agreements signed after 1990...
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Human Rights Diplomacy of Asia-Pacific States in the United Nations Human Rights Council in Light of the “Asian Values Debate” and Regional Human Rights Initiatives
This chapter covers the human rights diplomacy of Asia Pacific states in the shadow of the Asian values debate. In the largest, most populous, and...
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Human Security and Human Rights: Connecting the Global and the Local
This chapter examines the concept of human security in connection with the concept of human rights. It argues that the idea of human security as a...
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“Human Rights Activism in Indonesia”: An Interview with Usman Hamid
In this interview, Usman Hamid presents the activities of Amnesty International Indonesia, to which he is the Executive Director. He discusses the...
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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as a Constitutional Instrument of European Public Order
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms simultaneously complements the content of European public order, introducing...
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The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice
Superficially, citizenship appears relatively simple: a legal status denoting political membership. However, critical citizenship studies scholars...
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Human Rights for LGBTI in EU Foreign Policy
This chapter addresses environmental and contextual factors. Its aim is to provide a detailed, but by no means exhaustive, account of the greater...
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Human Rights Diplomacy of Muslim States at Multilateral Forums
States discussed in this chapter are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The first part of the chapter briefly introduces the...