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Human rights
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.
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