Alice Bullard

Human Rights in Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume expands our understanding of the pursuit of human rights during the era of the War on Terror. The threat to human rights both in the United States and among detainees in US-governed detention facilities created a widely perceived crisis in human rights. This text explores the broad and complicated ramifications of crisis by looking comparatively at societies in the present era and looking back at the historical and legal foundations of human rights. Human Rights in Crisis contains an element of hope derived from a conviction that the pursuit of human rights happens on many fronts and in many ways around the globe; that a retreat from human rights in the United States does not necessarily signal a global retreat. The essays here include perspectives from History, Anthropology, and Legal Studies, with a resulting interdisciplinary portrait of the complexities of pursuing human rights in wartime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781138271272
• ISBN-10: 1138271276
• Artikelnr.: 57043544

Autorenporträt

Alice Bullard is Associate Professor of History, Technology and Society and a member of the Human Rights Initiative of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Alice Bullard; Part I The Post 9/11 Climate: Human rights law
executive powers and torture in the post 9/11 era
Lisa Hajjar; Human rights advocates in the post 9/11 era
Ashley Barr. Part II Defining Human Rights in an Era of Controversy: The body counts: civilian casualties and the crisis of human rights
Amy Ross; International human rights law: struggling between apology and utopia
Richard Burchill; Women's human rights in the 21st century: crisis
challenge
and opportunity
Marsha A. Freeman. Part III Pursuing Human Rights and Prosecuting Violators: The Center for Justice and Accountability: holding human rights abusers responsible in the United States and abroad
Matt Eisenbrandt; Human trafficking and migration
Dina Francesca Haynes; Doctors without borders and the moral economy of pharmaceuticals
Peter Redfield; Conclusion
Alice Bullard; Index.