Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights

98 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h13min.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, women’s human rights, business and human rights, the role of national and international legal mechanisms and emerging themes such as tax justice, rights in the digital age, theories of change, and poetry. It is a credit to the MA programme that the chapters are rich with critical analysis, diverse expertise and innovative approaches. This book will be essential reading for students of human rights and practitioners who can benefit from the insights into theory and practice offered here.Foreword James Manor 1. Introduction Corinne Lennox 2. Researching and studying human rights: interdisciplinary insight Damien Short 3. Human rights theory as solidarity José-Manuel Barreto 4. The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia Esther Ojulari 5. Bringing human rights home: refugees, reparation, and the responsibility to protect James Souter 6. Human rights and the new(ish) digital paradigm Gaia Marcus 7. Theories of change for human rights and for development Paul Gready 8. Shifting sands: a paradigm change in the development discourse on women’s human rights and empowerment Catherine Klirodotakou 9. The role of human rights in diversity management and conflict prevention Sally Holt 10. Why tax is a human rights issue: empowering communities living in poverty to hold governments to account for public services Bridget Burrows 11. Technical cooperation in the field of human rights Farid Hamdan 12. Poetry for human rights Laila Sumpton 13. Transnational business human rights regulation and their effects upon human rights protection Sumi Dhanarajan 14. The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice in the UK Smita Shah 15. Remedy Australia: because every human rights violation should be remedied Olivia Ball 16. Extraterritorial non-refoulement: intersections between human rights and refugee law David James Cantor 17. Rethinking Muslim women’s equal rights: faith, property and empowerment M. Siraj Sait 18. Power of the law, power to the people: pursuing innovative legal strategies in human rights advocacy Tanja Venisnik 19. Domestic incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Marshall Islands Divine Waiti 20. The Inter-American Human Rights System: notable achievements and enduring challenges Par Engstrom