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Human Rights
Human rights are fundamental rights and freedoms that every person is entitled to, regardless of their nationality, gender, race, or religion. These rights include the right to life, liberty, and security, as well as freedom of expression, belief, and assembly. They are protected by international law and are essential for promoting equality, justice, and dignity for all individuals.
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eBook - PDF- Susan J Smith, Rachel Pain, Sallie A Marston, John Paul Jones III, Susan J Smith, Rachel Pain, Sallie A Marston, John Paul Jones III(Authors)
- 2009(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications Ltd(Publisher)
Human Rights abuses occur every-where. Although differing patterns have been identified, it is also clear that all types of bodies are subjected to abuses. It is a popular assertion that the present era is among the most violent, qualitatively and quantitatively, in recorded human history. That seems a dif-ficult, and perhaps specious, case to prove. The shifting notion of what constitutes a ‘human right’ and therefore what constitutes a ‘Human Rights violation’ makes it difficult to assess whether the contemporary period has seen an escalation of such violence. Regardless of whether the present era is exceptionally violent (in relation to human history), what is most relevant is the need to A SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF Human Rights 489 unpack and interrogate the social perceptions of what counts as a human right (and there-fore what counts as a Human Rights violation) and how these perceptions influence human security and well-being. This chapter seeks to critically examine the idea of Human Rights, as well as its dialec-tical relationship to geography. By analyzing Human Rights as an idea situated in particular spaces at particular times, this essay uses social geography to illuminate the uneven development of Human Rights. A social geog-raphy of Human Rights reveals what counts as a human right, and a Human Rights violation across space, rather than reifying the already-existing, taken-for-granted, assumptions of what Human Rights ‘are’. Rethinking the idea of Human Rights as situated in particular times/places helps illuminate the power-rela-tions wrapped up in the concept of Human Rights; the failure to recognize Human Rights as situated and contingent disguises the intense power-relations that determine what counts as a human right and who makes that designation. Central to the analysis is the dialectical relationship between geographies and Human Rights. In this approach, geogra-phy is more than just a ‘backdrop’ to events of human society.
eBook - PDF- Rodolfo B. Valdenarro(Author)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- Delve Publishing(Publisher)
Human Geography: A Global Perspective 2 CONTENTS 2.1. Introduction To Human Geography ................................................... 32 2.2. The Historical Knowledge On Human Geography ............................ 34 2.3. Applied Geography: An Overview .................................................... 41 2.4. The Urban Environment And Human Wellbeing ............................... 43 2.5. Human Geography And Its Nature .................................................... 45 2.6. Modern Geography And Human Geographies .................................. 49 Applied Human Geography 32 Human geography is concerned with how human activities affect the natural environment. This chapter describes the history of human geography and its development. It then gives an overview of applied geography. The chapter then discusses the relation between urban environment and human wellbeing. Geography of a place is related to its socio-cultural environment. This chapter also discusses the nature of human geography. Various studies have tried to understand the impact of natural and man-made causes on the environment. This aspect is covered in man-made geography and human geography. 2.1. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GEOGRAPHY First understanding of the word Geography has been set as the study of longitude, latitudes, desert, rivers, flora and fauna, etc. But, Geography in a broader sense is not just the study of lands, planets, its features and the phenomenon. Formerly, Geography which is a combination of two sets of words namely, Geo meaning Earth and Graphia stating style of drawing, was only taught and considered as study of Earth’s surface. To specify geography in much understandable terms it can be defined as the natural and relative arrangement of places and physical features.
eBook - PDF- David Fisher, Sandra Price, Terry Hanstock, David Fisher, Sandra Price, Terry Hanstock(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- De Gruyter Saur(Publisher)
Human geography Caedmon Staddon, Alan Terry, Krystyna Brown, Richard Spalding, Rosemary Burton • 10.1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Human geography is a diverse and constantly changing discipline. Though its fundamental concern is with understanding spatial variation in human processes, such variation may appertain to economic, social, cultural, historical, political or other phenomena. Human geographers, for example, have specialized in topics as diverse as industrial plant location dynamics, ethnic relations at the urban scale, electoral geography and representa-tions of space and place in art. Thus it may sometimes seem that geographers are always practitioners of at least two disciplines: geography and political studies, geography and economics, etc. Such a duality in professional identity has long led some geographers to suggest that geog-raphy may be a common (if unsung) core to all social sciences (Cloke, Philo and Sadler, 1992; Fenneman, 1919). This diversity and heterogeneity does not however imply that human geography is somehow secondary to other disciplines. On the contrary, one can fairly wonder why most other social sciences have been slow to realize the very real difference that space makes to human affairs. In soci-ology, for example, this realization is of only recent provenance but it has played a vital role in the reconsideration of the discipline over the past 20 years (Giddens, 1984; Urry, 1988). Other disciplines, including economics, political science and cultural studies have recently argued that the 'geographical imagination' ought to be quite central to their areas of research and teaching. It is, therefore, possible to conclude that human geography main-tains a strong coherent identity forged around the study of what Doreen Massey (1984) has called 'the difference that space makes' in all types of human process and phenomena.
eBook - PDFHuman Rights Brought Home
Socio-Legal Perspectives of Human Rights in the National Context
- Simon Halliday, Patrick Schmidt, Simon Halliday, Patrick Schmidt(Authors)
- 2004(Publication Date)
- Hart Publishing(Publisher)
Not least of them is the problem of origins and definition: where do these rights come from and how are they defined? As rights, Human Rights may seem univer-sal in character but they are also subjected to interpretation and adaptation in national contexts. In single domestic contexts observers may be comfort-able with limiting assumptions made about the scope of Human Rights — such as whether they include economic and social rights in addition to civil and political rights — but taken internationally there are serious challenges made to the authority of Human Rights as norms for governance. In an important move, the authors recognise the dependence of the international on the national context. Thus, they map out the course of Human Rights from international treaties to constitutionalism and, ultimately, consider the significance of administrative processes to the protection of Human Rights. This tour emphasises the wide scope and breadth of the problem fac-ing Human Rights implementation, for we are reminded that Human Rights must pass from a contested international order through layers of gover-nance and layers of norms. Yet, while reminding us of the idiosyncratic nature of Human Rights, Galligan and Sandler frame the chapters to follow by directing us to seek out the patterns and variables affecting the regula-tory effectiveness of Human Rights norms. The remaining chapters present new empirical data to explore the subject of Human Rights in the domestic context. The first of these chapters examines the historical development of Human Rights law. Mikael Rask Madsen offers a richly textured account of the emergence of the field of Human Rights in the second half of the twentieth century.
eBook - PDFGlobalization and Security
An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
- G. Honor Fagan, Ronaldo Munck, G. Honor Fagan, Ronaldo Munck(Authors)
- 2009(Publication Date)
- Praeger(Publisher)
9 Human Rights Chiara Certom a Human Rights are a set of rights considered as innate and natural rights of every human being purely because he or she is human. Their provision has been tra- ditionally regarded by the international regime as pertaining to nation-states, so violation and remediation are interpreted as a matter between the state and its citizens. However, globalization challenges this regime. The global world is characterized by a time-space compression producing a growing internationali- zation and an increasing instability. The defense of such categories as citizen- ship, closed places, and coherent cultural community is now difficult to sustain. Cosmopolitan systems, even if they constitute a means to pursue individual freedom and rights and increase the flow of information and the economic opportunities for a large number of people, at the same time either represent a source of new threats or do not change at all the repression and conditions of violence people are suffering. Together with the flow of goods in the interna- tional market, an uncountable flow of migrants presents new the possibilities of new violations that are not amenable to state-based Human Rights regimes but do call for a revision of conventional political categories and new forms of con- trol. Such transnational social movement networks and unelected global institu- tions as the World Bank and the peacekeeper and environmental organizations have a stronger control over the life of citizens than weak state institutions. At the same time, they have the potential to address Human Rights challenges, especially by increasing consciousness. Together with the institutional forms of humanitarian intervention and transnational legal accountability, promoting universal norms, and enforcement of state power, new forms of advocacy and control have been organized by local and global group for rights violation moni- toring (Brysk 2002).
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