Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties

Human Rights Transformed: Positive Rights and Positive Duties

written by Sandra Fredman, fl. 2008 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 286 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
This book moves beyond the artificial boundary between socio-economic and civil and political rights and instead focuses on the positive duties to which all rights give rise. Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State. This book argues that human rights are based on a far richer view of freedom, going beyond absence of coercion and focusing on the ability to exercise such freedom. This requires positive action to facilitate freedom, and substantive equality. It also recognizes the essentially social nature of human beings, and the crucial role of social interaction in advancing freedom. Drawing on political theory and social policy, as well as comparative experience from India, South Africa, the European Convention on Human Rights, the EU, US, Canada, and the UK, the book aims to create a theoretical and applied framework for understanding positive human rights duties. The first part focuses on creating an analytic framework for understanding positive duties. Chapter 1 aims to refashion the underlying values of liberty, equality and solidarity to yield the rich understanding of human rights argued for in this book. Chapter 2 focuses on the State, examining the role of positive human rights duties in furthering democracy, and in respect of globalization and privatization. Part II aims to fashion a democratic role for courts as well as examining alternative compliance methods, while Part III applies the analysis to specific rights, firstly equality, and then the traditional socio-economic rights to housing, education, and welfare.
Field of Interest
Global Issues
Author
Sandra Fredman, fl. 2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Oxford University Press
Content Type
Book
Duration
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Warning: Contains explicit content
No
Format
Text
Original Publication Date
2008
Page Count
286
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place Published / Released
New York, NY
Subject
Global Issues, Social Sciences, Customary International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Individual and Groups Rights, General Context: Human Rights Violations, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide, Economic, social and cultural rights, Transitional justice, International justice, Democracy, Government policy, Equality, Official government duties, Human rights, Sociology, Politics & Policy, Law, Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos

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