The Future of Human RightsOxford University Press, Dec 12, 2007 This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and goes on to study the more contemporary issues such as women's struggle to feminize the understanding and practice of human rights, the postmodernist critique of the universal idiom of human rights and, most pertinently for the current world scene, it analyses the impact of globalization on the human rights movement. The volume includes a discussion on the proposed UN norms regarding the human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities. |
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition | |
Acknowledgements | |
Modern | |
The Practices of Contemporary Human Rights Activism | |
Too Many or Too Few Human Rights? | |
Politics of Identity and Difference | |
What is Living and Dead in Relativism? | |
Human Rights Movements and Human Rights Markets | |
The Emergence of an Alternate Paradigm of Human Rights | |
Business Ethics at the Altar | |
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