Description
The Globalization of Human Rights addresses a set of questions focusing on the imperatives of justice at the national, regional, and international levels. The examination of these imperatives of justice is conducted through an analysis of rights, both civil and political, and economic and social. [READ MORE...]
Editors
Jean-Marc Coicaud is a Senior Academic Officer of the Peace and Governance Program, at the United Nations University, Tokyo. Michael W. Doyle is a special advisor to the executive office of the Secretary-General at the United Nations, New York. Anne-Marie Gardner is a Ph.D. student in the Politics Department of Princeton University.
Contents
Introduction:
Human Rights and International Order The construction of human rights at the domestic Level
On the Relationship between Civil and Political rights, and Social and Economic rights
The Incorporation of Civic and Social Rights in Domestic Law
The practice of Human rights at the regional level
Comparative practice on human rights: North-South
Human Rights and Asian Values
Human Rights at the International level: Implementation and distributive justice
The politics of human rights
Global accountability: transnational duties towards economic rights
Contributors
Michael W. Doyle
Jean-Marc Coicaud
Anne-Marie Gardner
Ruth Gavison
Claire Archbold
James Mouangue Kobila
Tatsuo Inoue
Pierre de Senarclens
Henry Shue
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