Decolonizing Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. He is an internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives. An-Naim teaches courses in international law, Islamic law, human rights and comparative law. His research interest include constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, Islam and the secular state and Islam and politics. Klappentext This book advances practical protection of human rights, and challenge claims of western monopoly of human rights discourse. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a transformation from human rights organized around a state determined practice to one that is focused on a people-centric approach that empowers individuals. It will appeal to legal educators and practicing lawyers, as well as students of social sciences and scholars of sociology, political science and international relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Evolution of founding vision; 2. Marriage of futility: international law and human rights; 3. Deadly mirage of humanitarian intervention; 4. People-centric protection of human rights; 5. Human rights are the measure of our humanity.

Product details

• Authors: Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Abdullahi Ahmed (Emory University An-Naim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781108417136
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41713-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, International Relations, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law