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Human rights |
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Authors: |
Irakleidis, Alexios |
Reviewer: |
Chouliaras, Asterios |
Subject: | LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES |
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Abstract: |
This chapter which deals with human rights, covers the following: the emergence of human rights with John Locke and the American and French Revolutions and their documents; the internationalization of human rights within the UN, starting with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and various important legal and other normative documents in the UN and other international fora; the three generations of human rights (civil and political rights, social, economic and cultural rights, and rights of solidarity as well as the various institutions and mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights (global as well as regional, governmental as well as non-governmental); the human rights foreign policy of states (mainly Western states); and the chapter concludes with the recent extended debate between the universality of human right and its challenges, mainly on the part of cultural relativism, Asian values and Islam.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Konachos, Dimitrios |
Technical Editors: |
Tsionis, Elias |
Graphic Editors: |
Tsionis, Elias |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
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License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6146 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Irakleidis, A. (2015). Human rights [Chapter]. In Irakleidis, A. 2015. International Relations and International Politics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/6146 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
International Relations and International Politics |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |