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Contemporary Human Rights Challenges Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)

Contemporary Human Rights Challenges By Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)

Contemporary Human Rights Challenges by Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)


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This new collection of essays by academics, practitioners and activists will bring a contemporary perspective to the original principles proclaimed in the Declarations 30 Articles. The essays will cover a wide range of topics such as an individuals right to privacy in a digital age, freedom to practise ones religion and the right to redress.

Contemporary Human Rights Challenges Summary

Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance by Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the aftermath of the World War II in an attempt to address the wrongs of the past and plan for a better future for all.

With contributions from President Jimmy Carter, UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azoulay and the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, this collection of essays, Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance, by leading international experts offers a timely contemporary view on the UDHR and its continuing relevance to todays issues.

Reflecting the structure of the UDHR, the chapters, written by 28 academics, practitioners and activists, bring a contemporary perspective to the original principles proclaimed in the Declarations 30 Articles. It will be a stimulating accessible read, with real world examples, for anyone involved in thinking about, designing or applying public policy, particularly government officials, politicians, lawyers, journalists and academics and those engaged in promoting social justice.

Examined through these universal principles, which have enduring relevance, the authors grapple with some of todays most pressing challenges, some of which, for example equality and gender related rights, would not have been foreseen by the original drafters of the Declaration, who included Eleanor Roosevelt, Rene Cassin and John Humphrey.

The essays cover a wide range of topics such as an individuals right to privacy in a digital age, freedom to practise ones religion and the right to redress, and make a compelling and detailed argument for the on-going importance and significance of the Declaration and human rights in our rapidly changing world.

About Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)

Dr Carla Ferstman, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Essex, UK.

Rev Alexander Goldberg, barrister and human rights activist, Jewish Chaplain to the University of Surrey.

Dr Tony Gray, Director of Words by Design, Oxford, UK.

Dr Liz Ison (daughter of the late Clemens Nathan), UK.

Richard Nathan (son of the late Clemens Nathan), Director, Bosquet Capital, London, UK.

Michael Newman, Chief Executive, The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR), London, UK.

Table of Contents

1: Foreword; 2: Cosmopolitan Vision, Civilised Sensibility, and Moral Passion: In Honour of Clemens N. Nathan (1933-2015); 3: List of Contributors; 4: Introduction to the Volume; 5: Section I: Reflections on the Foundation Blocks, the Pediment which Binds the Structure Together and Several Cross-Cutting Themes; 6: Section II: The Rights of an Individual; 7: Section III: The Rights of Individual in Civil and Political Society; 8: Section IV: Spiritual, public and political freedoms; 9: Section V: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 10: Section VI: The Challenge of Hope; 11: Appendices; 12: Index

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NPB9780815364634
9780815364634
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Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its Continuing Relevance by Carla Ferstman (REDRESS, UK)
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Inc
2018-08-31
238
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