A Right to Understand Injustice: Epistemology and the “Right to the Truth” in International Human Rights Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-199
Author(s):  
Ian Werkheiser
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

scholarly journals Disability and the Right to Have Rights

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobin Siebers
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Nation State ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

A major debate over human rights discourse concerns whether human rights should be guaranteed by the nation-state based on citizenship or whether they should be guaranteed internationally on the basis of the status of the rights-bearing person as human. This essay intervenes in this debate, via an analysis of Hannah Arendt's idea of the right to have rights, to argue that disability, as a critical indicator of universal human frailty, should provide the basis for international human rights.

Part V Institutions and Actors, Ch.28 Universality and the Growth of Regional Systems

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heyns Christof ◽  
Killander Magnus
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Arab League ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This article focuses on the regional human rights systems. It suggests that the emergence of these systems constitutes an important dimension of broader participation in the international human rights project because they provide platforms where people from all parts of the world can potentially make their voices heard in the global human rights discourse. It compares the regional human rights systems of Europe, the Americas and Africa and considers other smaller initiatives such as the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Conclusion: An Intersectional Future for Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Johanna Bond
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Organizations ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Way

Intersectionality has changed the way we think about human rights. It offers a complex, comprehensive, and nuanced approach that redounds to the benefit of victims seeking redress. It allows victims to articulate the multiple and intersecting forms of subordination that have negatively affected their lives. Intersectionality rejects the anemic and siloed approach to human rights that invariably fails to capture and remedy the complex, intersectional violations that characterize the lived experience of subordination for many people. Intersectionality has positively influenced human rights discourse ranging from the UN human rights treaty bodies to local human rights organizations that have incorporated the theory into their organizational missions. The theory is gaining ground in international human rights discourse, and it will continue to transform and expand our vision of appropriate remedies for human rights violations. Only by more accurately conceiving of intersectional human rights violations can we hope to provide meaningful and comprehensive remedies to those who have experienced violations of their rights.

Personal family law systems – a comparative and international human rights analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadas Tagari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article analyses the structures and substances of personal systems of family law based on religious affiliation within their social, political and historical contexts, and explores the varied ways in which they implicate the human rights of those governed by these systems, and the way international law and jurisprudence of human rights respond to these challenges. This analysis suggests that looking at the specific manifestations of personal family law systems in concrete contexts illuminates significant human rights implications which have not received sufficient attention in mainstream human rights discourse, for various legal, cultural and political reasons. The contexts which this article will draw on are personal family law systems in Israel, India, Lebanon and Morocco, which comprise a varied sample of family law structures and legal, cultural, social and political contexts.

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