Towards the ethics of a green future: the theory and practice of human rights…

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Persuasion and legal reasoning in the ECtHR Rulings: balancing impossible dem…

Introduction 1 Challenges of judicial reasoning in beginning and end-of-life cases 2 Ways of judicial reasoning ⁰́₃ outline 3 Ways of reasoning in medically assisted procreation and surrogacy cases 4 Ways of reasoning in abortion cases 5 Ways of reasoning in end-of

On the significance of religion for human rights

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Gender-Competent Legal Education

Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of…

One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

This is an open access book.Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights, and looks at emerging animal rights as new human rights. It approaches the question whether animals can and should have human rights through a comprehensive review of contemporary human rights philosophy, discussing b…

Marek Thee: My Story

Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the …

The State of Peacebuilding in Africa: Lessons Learned for Policymakers and Pr…

This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and…

The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups ar…

Human rights in the global information society

Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technol…

Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…