Guest Editors’ Introduction: Human Rights and Business

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Cragg ◽  
Denis G. Arnold ◽  
Peter Muchlinski
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

ABSTRACT:We provide a brief history of the business and human rights discourse and scholarship, and an overview of the articles included in the special issue.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE IMPERATIVE OF PRIORITIZING FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group Survival ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

The quite complex problems of human and group survival in Africa do not easily lend themselves to diagnosis or solutions within the human rights frame of analysis. There are several reasons for this. Some arise from the recent and not–so–recent history of the continent, others are associated with the foundations and formulation of the human rights framework itself, and the rest with the orientation of those governments, individuals, and organizations involved in or entrusted with translating the promises of human rights into human reality. The invidious dichotomies within human rights discourse between civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and collective (solidarity) rights or the so–called “categories” or “generations” of human rights, with the attendant and implicit hierarchy among these categories of rights, fails to resonate with most people around the continent for whom contact with the state is a frightening prospect that defies such convenient intellectual categories.

How Charles Taylor Philosophizes with History: A Review of Dilemmas and Connections

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Blakely
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Late Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Abstract Charles Taylor’s latest collection of essays, Dilemmas and Connections, is the most recent installment in his development of a grand history of the rise of a modern, secular age. In this review, I show how the historical narrative that defines Taylor’s late work is in continuity with his earlier hermeneutic commitments, while also allowing him to advance new inquiries into areas as diverse as secularism, religion, nationalism, and human rights discourse. I do this by not only providing a succinct summary of Taylor’s master narrative, but also by arguing that it resolves a number of philosophical dilemmas.

scholarly journals Determinasi Eksistensial Pemikiran Hukum Islam Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Tholkhatul Khoir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

<p>This article deals with the Islamic legal thought of Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na‘im from the sociology of knowledge approach. According to this approach, knowledge (including religious interpretation and practices) is sociologically, economically and politically determined. This article aims to understand how an-Na‘im’s Islamic legal thought is determined by his existence within social reality. This article concludes that an-Na‘im’s thought is determined by (1) socio-political and legal reality in Sudan, (2) Mahmoud Mohamed Taha who influenced his ideas, (3) British milieu, and (4) American environment which is politically secular, Islamo-phobic, racist, discriminative and intolerant towards Afro-Americans. The maturity of an-Na‘im’s thought is particularly influenced by the history of British colonialism in Sudan and his academic training in England, a place where human rights discourse develops as the result of post-enlightenment humanism and some major revolutions in Europe.</p>

scholarly journals Human rights teaching: snapshots from four countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-30
Author(s):  
Carole L Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
School Level ◽  
School Councils ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This article examines how some schools with ethnically diverse student populations are teaching about, for, and through human rights. The author conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative data from a multi-site study, which included secondary schools serving students from immigrant backgrounds in four countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (England and Scotland). The author found that schools taught about the history of human rights, rights in terms of national constitutions, and violations of human rights in the Global South; she observed fewer examples of human rights discourse addressing national and local issues.  Across schools, students experienced respect of their human rights, through voicing their opinions and contributing to school-level decisions primarily on school councils.  Some students developed knowledge, skills, and dispositions for exercising their rights and respecting others’ rights as they deliberated issues and took civic action locally and globally. 

INTEGRATING THE “BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS” DISCOURSE INTO THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM THROUGH COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núra Reguart-Segarra ◽  
Maria Chiara Marullo ◽  
Victoria Camarero-Suárez ◽  
Francisco Javier Zamora-Cabot ◽  
Julia José Carceller-Stella
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The University ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

The Trauma of Vulnerability: Human Rights and the Real

Somatechnics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-314
Author(s):  
Debra Bergoffen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Human History ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

The history of human rights is ambiguous and uncertain. Appeals to rights have been used to secure the privileges of the powerful and to legitimate the status quo. Appeals to rights have been used to expose the evils of cruelty and oppression. Given this muddied history we cannot assume that calls for human rights will operate in the name of justice. Cognizant of this history, I argue that human rights discourses can be a force for justice if: (1) we read human rights demands as an attempt to respond to the experience of the destabilizing, destructive and incomprehensible forces that Lacan calls the Real and that Adriana Cavero calls horrorism; and (2) if we use human rights discourses to respond to the trauma of encountering this horror by defining the human dignity and bodily integrity that human rights claims are intended to protect in terms of the dignity and integrity of the vulnerable body. I argue that if we persist in fleeing our vulnerability by using human rights discourse to insist on our autonomous sovereignty we will perpetuate the cycle of violence endemic to human history.

Cartoons, Comics and Human Rights after the Charlie-Hebdo Massacre

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Keane
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Short Comment ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

This short comment assesses the situation of cartoons, comics and human rights after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. It engages questions on the meaning and history of cartoons, as well as freedom of expression, to find a new pathway beyond the parameters of the current debate. In particular, it asks why the protection of freedom of expression on Europe became contingent on drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Rather than assigning a role for law in preventing such cartoons, or for freedom of expression in protecting them, it argues that desisting from drawing them would have no discernible impact. It highlights other means by which cartoons and comics can advance the human rights discourse, including pioneering comics authors in this regard. In conclusion it argues for an end to the largely dysfunctional terms of the debate and envisages a more progressive horizon.

scholarly journals Including Disability in Business and Human Rights Discourse and Corporate Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Michael Ashley STEIN ◽  
Ilias BANTEKAS
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
Self Enforcement

Abstract Despite significant progress in business and human rights (BHR) discourse and the practices of multinational corporations (MNCs), persons with disabilities and disability rights are absent from both the key instruments and practice of BHR. This lacuna exists despite the near-universal ratification of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as well as the fact that disabled persons constitute over 15 per cent of the global population and MNC operations impact them greatly and disproportionately. We argue that MNCs have a central role, responsibility and opportunity to foment change globally in fulfilling the human rights of persons with disabilities through their employment practices and by leveraging their economic power to fulfil other aspects of disability-based human rights. Doing so requires the development and self-enforcement of disability-specific human rights due diligence (HRDD) processes, and creating a general culture of diversity, equity and inclusion that encompasses disability.

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