Alice Bullard

Human Rights in Crisis (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume expands our understanding of the pursuit of human rights during the era of the War on Terror. It 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317119777
• Artikelnr.: 48418211

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.