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Confronting “Indivisibility” In The History Of Economic And Social Rights: From Parity To Priority And Back Again, Roland Burke
Confronting “Indivisibility” In The History Of Economic And Social Rights: From Parity To Priority And Back Again, Roland Burke
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Indivisible Human Rights. By Daniel Whelan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. 269pp.
International Organization And Poverty Alleviation, William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt
International Organization And Poverty Alleviation, William F. Felice, Diana Fuguitt
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The World Trade Organization and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Sarah Joseph, David Kinley & Jeff Waincymer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2009.
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Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights. By Desmond McNeill & Asunción St. Clair. New York, NY: Routledge. 2009.
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Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. By Catherine Weaver. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008.
Introduction: Human Rights In The Middle East And North Africa (Mena), Raslan Ibrahim
Introduction: Human Rights In The Middle East And North Africa (Mena), Raslan Ibrahim
Human Rights & Human Welfare
The wave of revolutions and popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the dawn of 2011 highlights the inescapable relevance and impact of human rights on the region’s politics and security. The Arab regimes’ violations of human rights and lack of respect to the human dignity of their citizens are in fact the seeds of the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, the rebellion of the Egyptian people against Mubarak regime, as well as the ongoing uprisings across the rest of MENA. The women and men who are protesting in the streets of Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, Yemen, …
October Roundtable: Introduction
October Roundtable: Introduction
Human Rights & Human Welfare
An annotation of:
The Women's Crusade. By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The New York Review of Books. August 17, 2009.
Violated: Women’S Human Rights In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kathryn Birdwell Wester
Violated: Women’S Human Rights In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kathryn Birdwell Wester
Human Rights & Human Welfare
In contemporary sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), women are facing human rights abuses unparalleled elsewhere in the world. Despite the region’s diversity, its female inhabitants largely share experiences of sexual discrimination and abuse, intimate violence, political marginalization, and economic deprivation.
The Promise Of Economic Rights And The Welfare State, Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
The Promise Of Economic Rights And The Welfare State, Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right. By Roy Adams. Ottawa: Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2006.
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The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. By Christopher Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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Economic Rights in Canada and the United States. Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
The United States And Economic And Social Rights: Past, Present…And Future?, Daniel J. Whelan
The United States And Economic And Social Rights: Past, Present…And Future?, Daniel J. Whelan
Human Rights & Human Welfare
There is probably no other topic in the field of human rights that is more difficult to talk about clearly than economic and social rights. The language surrounding economic and social goods as rights claims is often muddled and confusing, lacks precision, and is difficult to grasp. What does it mean, for example, to have a right to the “highest attainable standard of mental and physical health,” for example? What is “highest”? What about “attainable standard”? What is included in “mental and physical health?” Should health care be free-of-charge? Should the state provide it? Would we have to go court …
Respecting, Protecting And Fulfilling Economic And Social Rights: A Un Security Council?, William Felice
Respecting, Protecting And Fulfilling Economic And Social Rights: A Un Security Council?, William Felice
Human Rights & Human Welfare
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Whose Right Is It Anyway? Rethinking A Group Rights Approach To International Human Rights, Peter Zwiebach
Whose Right Is It Anyway? Rethinking A Group Rights Approach To International Human Rights, Peter Zwiebach
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium by A. Belden Fields. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. 244pp.
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International Human Rights in the 21st Century: Protecting the Rights of Groups edited by James Mayall and Gene M. Lyons. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 240pp.