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Putting “Human Rights” Back Into The U.N. Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights: Shifting Frames And Embedding Participation Rights, Tara J. Melish Sep 2017

Putting “Human Rights” Back Into The U.N. Guiding Principles On Business And Human Rights: Shifting Frames And Embedding Participation Rights, Tara J. Melish

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Published as Chapter 4 in Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning, Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, ed.


Human Rights In State Courts, India Thusi, Robert L. Carter Jan 2017

Human Rights In State Courts, India Thusi, Robert L. Carter

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Human rights are among society’s most powerful ideals. The notion that all people have rights, simply by virtue of their humanity, has sparked new nations, inspired countless freedom movements, and transformed the relationship between people and their governments in places big and small around the globe. The founders of our country declared that we are all created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that opinions of other nations are entitled to “decent respect.” In the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II, the United States helped craft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the modern …