Peoples'' Rights

Zusatztext Overall! this is a timely and informative volume ... the volume's most distinctive contribution! namely! its anti-essentialist perspective on people's rights and the elucidation of the ways in which rights can have both empowering and contstraining effects depending on their discoursive articulations and the political ends that the latter serve. Informationen zum Autor Philip Alston is Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the editor of The UN and Human Rights (OUP 1995) and The EU and Human Rights (OUP 1999) and is the General Editor of the European Journal of International Law. Klappentext The right to self-determination has been a driving force in international law and politics through much of the post-World War II period. In the 1970s it was joined by a number of other human rights attributed to peoples rather than to individuals, including rights to development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance. In this volume the current and future significance of these so-called third-generation solidarity rights are examined by leading experts. Zusammenfassung In this volume, the current and future significance of so-called 'third generation solidarity rights' - rights to development, peace, a clean environment, and humanitarian assistance, for example, - are examined. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Right of Self-Determination in International Law: Its Development and Future Reconciling Five Competing Conceptual Structures of Indigenous Peoples' Claims in International and Comparative Law Minority Rights Revisited: New Glimpses of an Old Issue Globalization and the Right to Development Environmental Rights Peoples' Rights - Their Rise and Fall

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philip Alston, Professor Philip (Professor of Internation Alston
• Mitarbeit: Philip Alston (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.10.2001
• EAN: 9780198298755
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829875-5
• Seiten: 280
• Serien: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law; Collected Courses of the Acade; Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law; Collected Courses of the Acade
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Öffentliches Recht, Verwaltungs-, Verfassungsprozessrecht; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, EU (European Union), Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general