The Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Basic ACLU Guide to Indian Tribal Rights (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook)
By Stephen L. Pevar
Publisher:Southern Illinois University
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:1991-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0809317680
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780809317684
Binding:Paperback
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"As a tribal leader, I have found Stephen Pevar's book to be both an excellent and useful resource."
—Ron Allen, Past President of the National Congress of American Indians
"This is exactly the kind of information we need to get out to Indian country. The book can help to advance the rights of Native Americans, because it explains the complex legal issues in a comprehensible, straightforward manner."
—John E. Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
"The format of the book…anticipates questions that everyone has and gives a concise answer to them. People should find the book very helpful in understanding the complexity of Indian law."
—Vine Deloria Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins and We Talk, You Listen.
"Every Indian should have this book."—Vicky Santana, attorney and member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana
"Pevar's book provides an excellent overview to the contradictory history of shifting federal Indian policy from the period of complete tribal independence…to the current policy of tribal self-governance. This very important knowledge resource should be required reading. It will be a gift to the benefit of all our generations."
—Indian Country Today
This informative guide thoroughly discusses the powers of Indian tribes; civil and criminal jurisdiction on Indian reservations; Indian hunting, fishing, and water rights; taxation in Indian country; the Indian Civil Rights Act; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
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Re-thinking Intellectual Property: The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era (Routledge-Cavendish Research in Intellectual Property)
By YiJun Tian
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415465346
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415465342
Binding: Hardcover
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Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (Global Institutions)
By Berna Ramcharan
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2008-05-28
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 041577456X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415774567
Binding: Hardcover
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In international relations today, there are serious debates about problems of global terrorism and security, extreme poverty, relations among people of differing religious or beliefs, genocide and gross violations of human rights, and global governance. Leaders of government and civil society, and the academic world, are in need of policy and normative frameworks for treading the way forward in responding to these global challenges.
Contemporary human rights ideas provide the frame of reference and the anchor points for addressing these issues. Human rights provide benchmarks for the conduct of governments and the management of international relations. Building on the principles of the United Nations Charter they provide the indispensable normative and policy framework of the international community for determining the legitimacy of governments and for arbitrating issues of justice in our times.
Contemporary Human Rights Ideas provides a short and accessible introduction to the key human rights concepts, the current debates about human rights, strategies and institutions for taking forward the global implementation of human rights, and the core messages that need to be imparted to students and the public at large.
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Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions
By John Mathiason
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2008-10-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415774020
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415774024
Binding: Hardcover
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Group Rights as Human Rights: A Liberal Approach to Multiculturalism (Law and Philosophy Library)
By Neus, Torbisco Casals, Torbisco N., Casals,
Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:284
Publication Date:2006-05-01
Sales Rank:1496425
ISBN / ASIN:1402042086
EAN:9781402042089
Binding:Hardcover
Manufacturer:Springer
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Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests. It also challenges the claim that group rights, so understood, conflict with the liberal principle of neutrality; on the contrary, these rights help realize the neutrality ideal as they counter cultural biases that exist in Western states. Group rights deserve to be classified as human rights because they respond to fundamental, and morally important, human interests. Reading the theories of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor as complementary rather than opposed, Group Rights as Human Rights sees group rights as anchored both in the value of cultural belonging for the development of individual autonomy and in each person’s need for a recognition of her identity. This double foundation has important consequences for the scope of group rights: it highlights their potential not only in dealing with national minorities but also with immigrant groups; and it allows to determine how far such rights should also benefit illiberal groups. Participation, not intervention, should here be the guiding principle if group rights are to realize the liberal promise.
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Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources (Social Issues Primary Sources: Human & Civil Rights)
By K. Lee Lerner (Editor), Brenda Wilmoth Lerner (Editor),
Publisher:Thomson Gale
Number Of Pages:500
Publication Date:2006-10-06
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ISBN / ASIN:1414403267
EAN:9781414403267
Binding:Hardcover
Manufacturer:Thomson Gale
Studio:Thomson Gale
Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources provides insight into over two centuries of struggle for human and civil rights and the issues that struggle engenders. The resources in Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources provide evidence to support the assertions of the U.N. Declaration and in doing so represent rights as natural rights (e.g. those of life, liberty, pursuit of property) and as expressions of the highest democratic ideals of equality, justice, and political and religious liberty. The resources also provide insight into emerging concepts of rights as related to security and privacy in times of both war and peace.
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The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, and Documents from Ancient Times to the Present, Second Edition
By Micheline Ishay
Publisher:Routledge
Number Of Pages:592
Publication Date:2007-04-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415951607
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415951609
Binding:Paperback
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The Second Edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a dramatically revised organization and updated selections, including pieces on globalization and the war on terrorism. Each part of the Reader corresponds to five historical phases in the history of human rights and explores for each the arguments, debates, and issues of inclusiveness central to those eras. The volume remains the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays, speeches, and documents from historical and contemporary sources, all of which are now placed in context with Micheline Ishay’s substantial introduction to the reader as a whole and valuable introductions to each part and chapter.
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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
By Lance Hill
Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Pages:400
Publication Date:2006-02-27
Sales Rank:268955
ISBN / ASIN:0807857025
EAN:9780807857021
Binding:Paperback
Manufacturer:The University of North Carolina Press
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In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest and most famous chapter at the center of a bloody campaign in the Ku Klux Klan stronghold of Bogalusa, Louisiana, the Deacons became a popular symbol of the growing frustration with Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent strategy and a rallying point for a militant working-class movement in the South.
Lance Hill offers the first detailed history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, who grew to several hundred members and twenty-one chapters in the Deep South and led some of the most successful local campaigns in the civil rights movement. In his analysis of this important yet long-overlooked organization, Hill challenges what he calls "the myth of nonviolence"--the idea that a united civil rights movement achieved its goals through nonviolent direct action led by middle-class and religious leaders. In contrast, Hill constructs a compelling historical narrative of a working-class armed self-defense movement that defied the entrenched nonviolent leadership and played a crucial role in compelling the federal government to neutralize the Klan and uphold civil rights and liberties.
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Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities
By Steering Committee on Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities, National Research Council
Publisher:National Academies Press
Number Of Pages:172
Publication Date:1994-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0309050901
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780309050906
Binding:Paperback
Book Description:
This book describes a number of social and legal issues as they relate to various members of electronically networked communities. After a brief introduction to relevant legal precedents and to the manner in which societies develop norms for social behavior, the book explores right and responsibilities related to free speech, vandalism, property interests, and privacy.
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Reaping the Benefits of Genomic And Proteomic Research: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, And Public Health
by Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation, National R
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Publisher: National Academies Press
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: 2006-03-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0309100674
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780309100670
Binding: Paperback
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The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, much of it well upstream of drugs and other disease therapies. This report concludes that IP restrictions rarely impose significant burdens on biomedical research, but there are reasons to be apprehensive about their future impact on scientific advances in this area. The report recommends 13 actions that policy-makers, courts, universities, and health and patent officials should take to prevent the increasingly complex web of IP protections from getting in the way of potential breakthroughs in genomic and proteomic research. It endorses the National Institutes of Health guidelines for technology licensing, data sharing, and research material exchanges and says that oversight of compliance should be strengthened. It recommends enactment of a statutory exception from infringement liability for research on a patented invention and raising the bar somewhat to qualify for a patent on upstream research discoveries in biotechnology. With respect to genetic diagnostic tests to detect patient mutations associated with certain diseases, the report urges patent holders to allow others to perform the tests for purposes of verifying the results.
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The Rights of Racial Minorities, Second Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to Racial Minority Rights (ACLU Handbook)
By Laughlin McDonald, John A. Powell
Publisher:Southern Illinois University
Number Of Pages:304
Publication Date:1993-08-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0809318881
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780809318889
Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
Using a question-and-answer format, this book makes clear how to take advantage of the laws designed to secure the rights of racial minorities. Individual chapters explain the federal civil laws and procedures protecting the rights of racial minorities in voting, employment, education, housing, public accommodations, federally assisted programs, and jury selection and trials. Relevant criminal statutes and the use of race-conscious remedies are covered as well.
The initial basis for the rights of racial minorities was provided by three constitutional amendments adopted following the Civil War during the period of Reconstruction: the Thirteenth Amendment, which outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude; the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from denying to any person "equal protection of the laws"; and the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibits denial or abridgment of the right to vote.
Each of the Reconstruction amendments authorized Congress to enforce the amendments "by appropriate legislation." Congress has done so repeatedly. The most important of the Reconstruction laws were the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was declared unconstitutional in 1883. In response to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Congress enacted and amended a number of modern civil rights acts including the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, amended in 1970, 1975, and 1982; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to ensure equality and eradicate the continuing effects of past discrimination accumulated over more than two centuries. The challenge to the nation remains to bring reality to the declared principle that "all persons are created equal."
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The Human Rights of Aliens under International and Comparativelaw (International Studies in Human Rights)
By State University of Rio de Janeiro Staff
Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:352
Publication Date:2001-02-20
ISBN-10 / ASIN:9041115501
ISBN-13 / EAN:9789041115508
Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
This volume deals with the basic human rights of aliens from the perspective of international and comparative law. It examines the rules regarding treatment of aliens and the extent to which these rules have been adopted in the domestic legislation of more than 40 different states.
It aims to achieve two basic goals: 1) to define the status of aliens under international law, that is, which rights are granted to every person by international instruments; and 2) to establish whether this set of rules has been adopted by the domestic legislation of the states under review.
The author classifies the basic human rights of aliens into seven different categories, namely: 1) fundamental rights; 2) private rights; 3) social and cultural rights; 4) economic rights; 5) political rights; 6) public rights; and 7) procedural rights. For each of these categories she reviews opinions of international legal commentators, decisions of international and regional tribunals, as well as national legislation, domestic court decisions, and opinions of local authorities.
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The Concept of Rights (Law and Philosophy Library)
By George W., Rainbolt, G. W., Rainbolt,
Publisher:Springer
Number Of Pages:280
Publication Date:2006-04-01
Sales Rank:1833933
ISBN / ASIN:140203976X
EAN:9781402039768
Binding:Hardcover
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What is it to have a right? Previous answers to this question can be divided into two groups. Some (e.g., Joseph Raz) hold interest/benefit theories of rights while others (e.g., H.L.A. Hart and Carl Wellman) hold choice/will theories of rights. The Concept of Rights defends an alternative to both of the traditional views, the justified-constraint theory of rights. On this view, a person has a right if and only if a feature of that person is a sound justification for others to have a particular sort of normative constraint.
The justified-constraint theory avoids the problems which have bedeviled the interest/benefit theories and the choice/will theories. It also solves the puzzle of the relational nature of rights. On the justified-constraint view, an obligation correlative to a right is to the right-holder when it is a feature of the right-holder that justifies the obligation. The analysis also shows that, as far as the concept of rights is concerned, any sort of individual or group can have rights. The limits on what sorts of things have rights are substantive, not conceptual. Moreover, the justified-constraint solves the problem of the rights of past and future generations. It is a theory which applies, without modification, to past, present and future beings.
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"With clear exposition, powerful argument and informed incisive critisms of alternative theories, this book gives a systematic account of an original and important alternative to the best theories of rights in the recent literature."
Carl Wellman, Washington University, St Louis, USA
"More systematic, nuanced, and sophisticated than almost all other (Hohfeldian and neo-Hohfeldian analyses of rights talk). His peer in this regard is perhaps Judith Jarvis Thomson."
Richard Arneson, University of California at San Diego, USA
"The most sophisticated I have seen."
David Schmidtz, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
"First-rate book, the best thing on the subject since Sumner and Thomson's books fifteen to twenty years ago."
Christopher W. Morris, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
"Advances the positions of Joseph Raz and H.L.A. Hart, perhaps the two most important legal philosophers of the last century"
Douglas Husak, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
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Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties under the Law (America's Freedoms)
By: Ken Kersch Donald Stephenson(Editor)
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FREEDOM OF SPEECH: RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES UNDER THE LAW by Ken I. Kersch. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2003. 393pp. Cloth $55.00. ISBN: 1-57607-600-8. Reviewed by Mark C. Miller, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government, Clark University. FREEDOM OF SPEECH: RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES UNDER THE LAW discusses the U.S. constitutional principle of freedom of speech from an historical and theoretical point of view. It briefly mentions some U.S. Supreme Court cases dealing with the First Amendment, but those judicial opinions are clearly not the main focus of the book. Kersch treats freedom of speech and freedom of the press cases as interchangeable.
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Human Rights in Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (Cambridge Modern China Series)
By Stephen C. Angle
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages:304
Publication Date:2002-06-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521007526
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521007528
Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claims about the uniqueness of their human rights concepts. The book elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics, but it nonetheless argues for the importance and promise of cross-cultural moral engagement.
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Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government
By Corey Brettschneider
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Number Of Pages:192
Publication Date:2007-07-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0691119708
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780691119700
Binding:Hardcover
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When the Supreme Court in 2003 struck down a Texas law prohibiting homosexual sodomy, it cited the right to privacy based on the guarantee of "substantive due process" embodied by the Constitution. But did the court act undemocratically by overriding the rights of the majority of voters in Texas? Scholars often point to such cases as exposing a fundamental tension between the democratic principle of majority rule and the liberal concern to protect individual rights. Democratic Rights challenges this view by showing that, in fact, democracy demands many of these rights.
Corey Brettschneider argues that ideal democracy is comprised of three core values--political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity--with both procedural and substantive implications. These values entitle citizens not only to procedural rights of participation (e.g., electing representatives) but also to substantive rights that a "pure procedural" democracy might not protect. What are often seen as distinctly liberal substantive rights to privacy, property, and welfare can, then, be understood within what Brettschneider terms a "value theory of democracy." Drawing on the work of John Rawls and deliberative democrats such as J眉rgen Habermas, he demonstrates that such rights are essential components of--rather than constraints on--an ideal democracy. Thus, while defenders of the democratic ideal rightly seek the power of all to participate, they should also demand the rights that are the substance of self-government.
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The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
By Todd Boyd
Publisher:NYU Press
Number Of Pages:192
Publication Date:2003-01-01
Sales Rank:885343
ISBN / ASIN:0814798950
EAN:9780814798959
Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
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"The New H.N.I.C. brilliantly observes pivotal moments in hip hop and black culture as a whole... provocative raises the level of the hip hop discussion."
—Black Issues Book Review
"It was naive for Todd Boyd to subtitle his book The Death of Civil Rights and the Birth of Hip Hop, and not to expect people to wig out."
—Punk Planet
"Stand back! Todd Boyd brings the ruckus in this provocative look at how hip hop changed everything from the jailhouse to the White House—and why it truly became the voice of a new generation."
—Alan Light, Editor-in-Chief, Spin Magazine
“Elegantly script the fall of the previous generation alongside the rise of a new hip-hop ethos…. [The New H.N.I.C] is built on the provocative premise that this generation's hip-hop culture has come to supersede the previous one's paradigm of civil rights. Highlighting various moments in recent rap history—the controversy over OutKast's naming a single after Rosa Parks; the white negro-isms of Eminem—Boyd offers hip-hop as the most suitable access point for understanding the social, political, and cultural experiences of African Americans born after the civil rights period.”
—Village Voice
"Those who are hip have always known that Black music is about more than simply nodding your head, snapping your fingers, and patting your feet. Like the proverbial Dude, back on the block, Dr. Todd Boyd, in his groundbreaking book The New H.N.I.C., tells us that like the best of this oral tradition, hip hop is a philosophy and worldview rooted in history and at the same time firmly of the moment. Dr. Boyd's improvisational flow is on point like be bop Stacy Adams and The New H.N.I.C.,in both style and substance, breaks down how this monumental cultural shift has come to redefine the globe. With mad props and much love, Dr. Boyd's The New H.N.I.C. is the voice of a generation and stands poised at the vanguard of our future."
—Quincy Jones
"A convincing and entertaining case that hip-hop matters, Boyd's reading is nothing less than inspired."
—Mother Jones
"If you want to understand the direction of music today, read thisbook. Boyd expertly chronicles the birth of Hip Hop, its impact on allmusic and how the language and music defines a generation."
— Tom Freston, CEO, MTV Networks
"Boyd's main observation is simple and mostly true: "Hip-hop has rejected and now replaced the pious, sanctimonious nature of civil rights as the defining moment of Blackness."
—Los Angeles Times
When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said, "This is crazy, 'cause this is hip hop music.'" Hill's astonishment at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant testifies to the explosion of this truly revolutionary art form. Hip hop music and the culture that surrounds it—film, fashion, sports, and a whole way of being—has become the defining ethos for a generation. Its influence has spread from the state's capital to the nation's capital, from the Pineapple to the Big Apple, from 'Frisco to Maine, and then on to Spain.
But moving far beyond the music, hip hop has emerged as a social and cultural movement, displacing the ideas of the Civil Rights era. Todd Boyd maintains that a new generation, having grown up in the aftermath of both Civil Rights and Black Power, rejects these old school models and is instead asserting its own values and ideas. Hip hop is distinguished in this regard because it never attempted to go mainstream, but instead the mainstream came to hip hop.
The New H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates over use of the "N-word," the comedy of Chris Rock, and the "get money" ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Russell Simmons, to hip hop's impact on a diverse array of figures from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez.
Maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is less important today than DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand, represents the vanguard, and is the best way to grasp both our present and future.
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Which Rights Should Be Universal?
By William Talbott
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Pages:256
Publication Date:2006-05-01
Sales Rank:85390
ISBN / ASIN:0195331346
EAN:9780195331349
Binding:Paperback
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident..." So begins the U.S. Declaration of Independence. What follows those words is a ringing endorsement of universal rights, but it is far from self-evident. Why did the authors claim that it was? William Talbott suggests that they were trapped by a presupposition of Enlightenment philosophy: That there was only one way to rationally justify universal truths, by proving them from self-evident premises. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the authors of the U.S. Declaration had no infallible source of moral truth. For example, many of the authors of the Declaration of Independence endorsed slavery. The wrongness of slavery was not self-evident; it was a moral discovery. In this book, William Talbott builds on the work of John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas, J.S. Mill, Amartya Sen, and Henry Shue to explain how, over the course of history, human beings have learned how to adopt a distinctively moral point of view from which it is possible to make universal, though not infallible, judgments of right and wrong. He explains how this distinctively moral point of view has led to the discovery of the moral importance of nine basic rights. Undoubtedly, the most controversial issue raised by the claim of universal rights is the issue of moral relativism. How can the advocate of universal rights avoid being a moral imperialist? In this book, Talbott shows how to defend basic individual rights from a universal moral point of view that is neither imperialistic nor relativistic. Talbott avoids moral imperialism by insisting that all of us, himself included, have moral blindspots and that we usually depend on others to help us to identify those blindspots. Talbott's book speaks to not only debates on human rights but to broader issues of moral and cultural relativism, and will interest a broad range of readers.
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Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (California Series in Public Anthropology)
By Winifred Tate
Publisher:University of California Press
Number Of Pages:400
Publication Date:2007-10-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN:0520252837
ISBN-13 / EAN:9780520252837
Binding:Paperback
Product Description:
At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, pioneering interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Counting the Dead underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the context of broader cultural and political debates.
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Know Your Legal Rights (Paperback)
by The Editors of Kiplingers Personal Finance (Editor)
The law touches your wallet, your home, your job, and many of your personal relationships. Yet you're probably not aware of all your legal rights and responsibilities.
From auto insurance to zoning regulations, Know Your Legal Rights guides you over hundreds of common legal hurdles. This ready reference is written in understandable language, not legal jargon. It will help you recognize when you have a legal problem and decide if and how you can resolve it on your own. And if you can't, the book shows how to find qualified legal counsel.
You'll find invaluable guidance on such topics as:
Your Finances
# Investor's rights
# Credit, consumer and lending problems
# Tax compliance
Your Car
# Driving issues, privileges and violations
# Your rights regarding search and seizure
# Challenging a citation
# Protecting yourself from liability in case of accident
# Dealing with your insurance company
Your Home
# Questions of liability - yours and your neighbors'
# Protecting your interests, whether you're buying or selling
# Dealing with contractors and repair people
Your Job
# Do?s and don?ts in interviews
# Dealing with discrimination
# Your pension and social security rights
Know Your Legal Rights also explores the legal aspects of truly personal subjects, such as marriage and divorce, parental obligations, live-in rights, medical dilemmas and estate planning. It includes helpful resource information, including lists of advocacy groups, trade and professional associations, and federal and legal agencies where you can turn for further help.
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