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Contemporary Challenges in Securing Human Rights
About this book
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, we are pleased to publish a commemorative edited volume on human rights themes authored by distinguished alumni and faculty.
The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, women's human rights, business and human rights, the role of national and international legal mechanisms and emerging themes such as tax justice, rights in the digital age, theories of change, and poetry.
It is a credit to the MA programme that the chapters are rich with critical analysis, diverse expertise and innovative approaches. This book will be essential reading for students of human rights and practitioners who can benefit from the insights into theory and practice offered here.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Researching and studying human rights: interdisciplinary insight
- 3. Human rights theory as solidarity
- 4. The social construction of Afro-descendant rights in Colombia
- 5. Bringing human rights home: refugees, reparation, and the responsibility to protect
- 6. Human rights and the new(ish) digital paradigm
- 7. Theories of change for human rights and for development
- 8. Shifting sands: a paradigm change in the development discourse on women’s human rights and empowerment
- 9. The role of human rights in diversity management and conflict prevention
- 10. Why tax is a human rights issue: empowering communities living in poverty to hold governments to account for public services
- 11. Technical cooperation in the field of human rights
- 12. Poetry for human rights
- 13. Transnational business human rights regulation and their effects upon human rights protection
- 14. The impact of legal aid cuts on access to justice in the UK
- 15. Remedy Australia: because every human rights violation should be remedied
- 16. Extraterritorial non-refoulement: intersections between human rights and refugee law
- 17. Rethinking Muslim women’s equal rights: faith, property and empowerment
- 18. Power of the law, power to the people: pursuing innovative legal strategies in human rights advocacy
- 19. Domestic incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Marshall Islands
- 20. The Inter-American Human Rights System: notable achievements and enduring challenges
- Notes on contributors
- Backmatter