Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges - Poverty, Conflict, and the Environment

The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century - armed conflict, environment, and poverty - and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues. This multidisciplinary text considers both foundational and applied questions such as the relationship between morality and the laws of war, as well as the application of the International Human Rights Framework in cyber space. Alongside analyses from some of the most prominent lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists in the debate, each section includes contributions by those who have served as Special Rapporteurs within the United Nations Human Rights System on the challenges facing international human rights laws today.

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• Authors: Dapo (Professor of Public International La Akande
• Assisted by: Dapo Akande (Editor), Dapo (Professor of Public International Law & Co-Director Akande (Editor), Akande Dapo (Editor), Jaakko Kuosmanen (Editor), Jaakko (Senior Analyst and Project Manager Kuosmanen (Editor), Helen McDermott (Editor), Helen (Research associate McDermott (Editor), Dominic Roser (Editor), Dominic (Senior Lecturer and Researcher Roser (Editor), Roser Dominic (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780198824770
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882477-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Military / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Warfare & defence, Public International Law, Social impact of environmental issues, Warfare and defence, Development economics & emerging economies, International humanitarian law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Development economics and emerging economies, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Public international law: humanitarian law