Human rights : new dimensions and challenges /: new dimensions and challenges. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Janusz Symonides.
• Editors: Symonides, Janusz
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; About the Contributors; 1: New Human Rights Dimensions, Obstacles and Challenges: Introductory Remarks; The United Nations System and the Interdependence and Interrelation between Human Rights, Peace, Democracy and Development; Towards Further Consolidation of the Right to Development; UNESCO Initiatives Aimed at the Recognition of the Human Right to Peace; Obstacles and Threats to Human Rights; Extreme Poverty and Exclusion: a Violation of Human Dignity Discrimination and Intolerance: Violation of Human Rights, Sources of Conflicts and Threats to Peace and StabilityTerrorism, Organized Crime and Corruption: Threats to Human Rights, Democracy and Peace; New Challenges of Science and Technology; Biotechnology and Human Rights; Genetic Engineering; Bioethics; The Human Genome; The Challenges of New Information and Communication Technology (ICT): the Information Highways; Universality of Human Rights versus Cultural Relativism; The Rejection of Cultural Relativism by the Vienna Conference Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Chances and ThreatsGlobalization; Regionalism; Nationalism; Through Human Rights Education and Public Information towards a Culture of Human Rights; Duty of States to Develop Human Rights Education; Human Rights Education and the Creation of a Universal Culture of Human Rights; Making Human Rights a Reality; PART I: NEW DIMENSIO; 2: Human Rights and Peace; Human Rights and Peace as Sets of Values; Values as Rights; The 'Right to Human Rights'; The Collective Right to Peace; The Use of Individual Rights to Further Peace Peace and Human Rights: Causal LinksHuman Rights as a Precondition for Peace; Human Rights as a Component of Peace; Peace as a Precondition for Human Rights; Conclusions; 3: Democracy and Human Rights: Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural; The Contribution of Economic and Social Rights to Democracy; Democracy as a Condition for Economic and Social Rights; Cultural Rights and Democracy; Conclusion: Democracy and Human Rights; 4: The Development of the Right to Development; The Adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development; The Core Conceptions Towards Participation and ResponsibilityPopular Participation; SLAPPS: Corporate Governance and Public/Popular Participation; Removal of Obstacles to Development; Women and the Right to Development; Juridical Critique; Mode of Creation of New Human Rights; Are People's Rights Human Rights?; Neither a Legal nor a Moral Right Thou shalt be!; Conclusion: Avoidance of Non-proliferation; 5: Human Rights and the Environment; Introduction; The Growth of Human Rights Protection and of Environmental Protection: from Internationalization to Globalization
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323; Human rights -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Human rights; Electronic books; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429398629; 9780429676673; 0429676670; 9780429676666; 0429676662; 9780429676659; 0429676654
• Related ISBNs: 042939862X; 9780367026301; 0367026309
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019)
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.