Research Catalog

Title

Human rights in perspective : a global assessment : Nobel Symposium 74 / edited by Asbjørn Eide and Bernt Hagtvet.

Author

Nobel Symposium (74th : 1988 : Lysebu, Norway)

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell Business, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eide, Asbjørn.
• Hagtvet, Bernt.

Description

xviii, 321 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Around the world the pressure on human rights remains intense. The complexity and pace of a modern world, and the conflicts and strains it creates continually threaten individuals and groups in many places. Human Rights in Perspective represents a major appraisal of the progress and problems forty years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration is the basis of modern international law, and the internationally renowned contributors to this volume examine the role of the UN in protecting and encouraging respect for human rights, the civilizations and religious traditions which contribute to its universal validity, and the international and domestic socio-political and economic impediments for the realization of human rights in their fullest form." "It stands as an audit for the 1990s of this fundamentally important global problem."--Jacket.

Subject

• Human rights > Congresses
• Human rights
• Menschenrecht
• Internationale Politik
• Kongress

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Symposium held June 21-23, 1988 in Lysebu, Norway.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. International Efforts by the UN to Protect and Encourage Respect for Human Rights: Problems and Prospects after Forty Years -- 1. National Sovereignty and International Efforts to Realize Human Rights / Asbjorn Eide -- Comments / Vladimir A. Kartashkin -- 2. 'Political' and 'Legal' Control Mechanisms: Their Competition and Coexistence / Theo van Boven -- Comments / Torkel Opsahl -- 3. Compatibility of Regional Human Rights Systems with International Standards / Etienne-Richard Mbaya -- Pt. II. Human Rights, World Civilizations and Indigenous Religious Traditions: Re-opening the Question of Universal Validity -- 4. Human Rights in Comparative Civilizational Perspective / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Comments / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- 5. Human Rights and the New Circle of Equity: Muslim Political Theory and the Rejection of Scepticism / Ernest Gellner -- Comments / James Piscatori -- 6. Universal Human Rights and the Cultures of Indigenous Peoples and Other Ethnic Groups: The Critical Frontier of the 1990s / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- 7. Universality of Human Rights Revisited: Some Less Applaudable Consequences of the Human Rights Tradition / Johan Galtung -- Pt. III. International and Domestic Socio-political and Economic Impediments to the Realization of Human Rights -- 8. Types of Political Regimes and Respect for Human Rights: Historical and Cross-national Perspectives / Juan J. Linz -- 'Rights and Regimes': Comments / Robert E. Goodin -- 9. Democracy and Human Rights under Different Conditions of Development / Robert A. Dahl -- 10. Compliance with Economic and Social Human Rights: Realistic Evaluations and Monitoring in the Light of Immediate Obligations / Bard-A. Andreassen, Alan G. Smith and Hugo Stokke -- 11. Structure of Dominance in the International Geo-economic System and the Prospects for Human Rights Realization / Susan George.

ISBN

• 063117883X
• 9780631178835

LCCN

91047006

OCLC

• ocm25130651
• 25130651
• SCSB-1954962

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library