scholarly journals Hina Jilani on the value of the rights discourse in the context of political Islam

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-247
Author(s):  
Hina Jilani ◽  
Khan Ayesha
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
World Organisation

Hina Jilani is one of Pakistan’s most influential human rights activists and a leader of Women’s Action Forum, the group that began the modern women’s movement in the country. She co-founded the first women’s law firm and legal aid organisation, AGHS, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. At the international level she has held numerous positions as well. She is a member of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights. In 2009, she was appointed to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. She was also UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders (2000–2008); appointed to the UN International Fact-Finding Commission on Darfur (2006); and served as President of the World Organisation Against Torture (2016). Jilani received the Amnesty International Genetta Sagan Award for Women’s Rights (2000), and the Millennium Peace Prize for Women (2001). She is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders working together for peace and human rights, founded by Nelson Mandela. Below are edited excerpts from an interview with Ayesha Khan held at Jilani’s home in Lahore on 23 October 2015.

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).

scholarly journals Rights of Due Process in Civil Procedurs of Some Countries in the World an in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Quan ◽  
Nguyen Bich Thao
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Due Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civil Procedure ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
The Right ◽  
Procedural Rights

Currently, civil procedure legal science in the world begins to study the application of fair procedural rights. Meanwhile, Vietnamese civil procedure legal science seems to pay attention to the proceedings instead of the procedural rights. In this context, the paper examines the application of rights of due process around the world and in Vietnam. From there, the author suggests a number of appropriate orientations in this area that Vietnam should apply in the near future in order to match the trend in the world and the reality of Vietnam. Keywords: Civil procedure, due process, rights of due process, human rights. References: [1] Rhonda Wasserman, Procedural Due Process: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.[2] E. Thomas Sullivan and Toni M. Massaro, The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, 2013.[3] Khoa Luật Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Giáo trình Luật tố tụng dân sự Việt Nam, NXB. Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội.[4] European Court of Human Rights (2013), Guide to Article 6: The Right to a Fair Trial (Civil Limb), http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Guide_Art_6_ENG.pdf.[5] C.H. Van Rhee & Alan Uzelac (eds.), Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation: Fundamental Aspects of Fact-Finding and Evidence-Taking in a Comparative Context, Intersentia, 2012, pp. 5-6.    

Globalization and Multi-cultural Knowledge of Human Rights

1998 ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Jay Drydyk
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Responding to a call by Pierre Sané, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, for a worldwide political movement to overcome the social damage that has been wrought by economic globalization, this paper asks whether such a movement can invoke current conceptions of human rights. In particular, if human rights are Euro-centric, how well would they serve the self-understanding of a movement that is to be global, culturally pluralistic and counterhegemonic to Northern capital? I argue that it is not human rights that are Eurocentric, but only certain conceptions of human rights. Properly understood, human rights are justifiable from within all cultures. Moreover, current conceptions of human rights are not as narrow as they were in 1948, when the Universal Declaration was drafted. Nearly five decades of international dialogue have transformed human rights discourse in ways that are profoundly anti-Eurocentric, and further transformations are already underway. There are resources of moral and political experience, within all cultures, which argue strongly in favor of these transformations. Therefore, a more consistent and more complete knowledge of human rights can emerge cross-culturally if the dialogue is not abused and if the relevant moral and political experience is let into the dialogue from all quarters.

Part IV The Governance of Human Rights, 19 The High Commissioner for Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clapham Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Member States ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
Fact Finding

This chapter discusses the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The High Commissioner’s Office is much more than the secretariat of the Human Rights Council and the other UN human rights bodies. The High Commissioner’s Office conducts fact-finding, engages with governments, develops policies for the UN system as a whole, monitors situations around the world, and the High Commissioner himself or herself often speaks out to condemn policies and practices. Inevitably this means suggesting a course of action for the member states and other parts of the UN system that those actors may be resistant to. The chapter then outlines the development of the Office and highlights some of the achievements while pointing to the obstacles that any High Commissioner has to overcome.

The Amnesty Adventure; Amnesty International's Police Group in the Netherlands

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Van Reenen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

The Dutch section of Amnesty International has a group of police officers working for human rights. This group, the professional group of police, is one of the various professional groups that AI has. As a police group it is unique in the world. In this article, the history and the activities of the group are described and the success-factors indicated. An attempt is made to answer the question why such a group could develop in the Netherlands and why efforts to do so elsewhere have mainly failed.

Theocentrism and Human Rights: A Critical Argument

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Andrew Fiala
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The West ◽  
Critical Argument ◽  
The World ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Sentient Beings ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

AbstractHuman rights discourse in the West has a deep connection to Christian theology and what might be called 'theocentrism.' This view locates human rights in the God-created order of the world—and not in the capacities of sentient beings. This article examines and criticizes some recent theocentric arguments. It focuses in particular on the claim made by some theocentric human rights defenders that secular individualism and democracy are wrong-headed and run counter to Christian theology. This article provides a critique of recent theocentric arguments about human rights and briefly discusses an alternative that locates rights in the capacities of sentient beings.

scholarly journals WHERE HAVE ALL THE REVOLUTIONARIES GONE? HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE REINVENTION OF REVOLUTION IN REBIYA KADEER’S DRAGON FIGHTER

eTopia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Lu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Prisoner ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unique Vantage

For five and half years, Rebiya Kadeer was imprisoned as a political prisoner in China and was finally released in 2005 after Amnesty International campaigned for her release. Today, she now campaigns as a human rights activist against what many Uyghurs consider Chinese occupation of their homeland, Xinjiang. Although many organizationswork on human rights violations against the Uyghurs, Rebiya Kadeer has emerged as the primary symbol of Uyghur resistance in China, much like the Dalai Lama for Tibet.Her simultaneous position as both a human rights activist and resistance symbol offers a unique vantage point in exploring the relationship between memory, women, and nationalism. In sketching out these connections, this paper will analyze the agency and representation in the process of memory making and the gendering of resistance in relation to the life and memoir of Rebiya Kadeer. The political project of witnessing through representation offers a practical departure point for better understanding the formation of a feminine revolutionary subjectivity in contrast to the romanticized icon of the masculine, revolutionary hero. In proposing the relationship between memory, women and nationalism, this paper aims to ultimately understand whether the revolutionary subject has in effect become the human rights activist. And if this is the case, what then are the conditions for revolution, and is revolution possible within the logic of human rights discourse?

scholarly journals Amnesty International Launches Campaign to Protect Women's Rights

2016 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

In preparation for the Fourth U.N. World Conference on Women, The U.S. branchof Amnesty International has launched a campaign to draw attention to increasingabuses of women's basic human rights around the world.

Approaching Human Rights at the World Heritage Committee: Capturing Situated Conversations, Complexity, and Dynamism in Global Heritage Processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Peter Bille Larsen ◽  
Kristal Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Point Of Departure

Abstract:Social scientists are increasingly approaching the World Heritage Committee itself as an entry-point to understanding global heritage processes and phenomena. This article explores the subject of human rights in the operations of the World Heritage Committee—the decision-making body established by the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. It seeks to address the epistemological and methodological implications of approaching the World Heritage Committee as a point of departure for understanding global heritage and rights dynamics. It builds on an “event ethnography” undertaken by the authors to understand how rights discourse appeared in multiple contexts during the Thirty-Ninth World Heritage Committee session held in Bonn, Germany, in June 2015.In this article, we discuss the methodological and ontological implications of studying rights discourses in the context of World Heritage events and processes. We have a particular interest in the interplay of formal and informal dynamics, revealing the entangled and multi-sited processes that shape and are shaped by the annual event. While much of the debate and analysis in heritage studies is understandably concerned with formal decision-making processes and position-taking, this work demonstrates the significance of a range of informal dynamics in appreciating future possibilities.

Amnesty International

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Aryeh Neier
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter centers on Amnesty International, the best-known and largest human rights organization in the world that was established in London in 1961. It highlights how the creation of Amnesty was a major milestone in the emergence of an enduring human rights movement. It also discusses the Cold War context that played a crucial role in shaping Amnesty. The chapter explores the intention of Amnesty to operate worldwide and address the abuses of rights committed by those on all sides of the global struggle. It also talks about the principal founder of Amnesty, Peter Benenson, who was active in the efforts to promote civil liberties several years prior to taking the lead in the formation of Amnesty.

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