Human rights and diverse societies
Subtitle: challenges and possibilities
By: edited by François Crépeau and Colleen Sheppard
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781443851374
Subjects: Human rights; Sociological aspects; Sozialer Wandel; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft; Menschenrecht; Universalität
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Universality and diversity / Peter Leuprecht; title: Human rights : a fragile hegemony / Boaventura de Sousa Santos; title: Critical engagement with human rights discourse / Colleen Sheppard; title: The challenge of democracy in divided societies of the post-colonial world / Ranabir Samaddar; title: Human rights, settler colonialism and the problem of universality / Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez; title: Muslim women's equality in India : applying a human rights framework / Vrinda Narain; title: Canada's clash of culturalisms / Pearl Eliadis; title: Russia's evolution and human rights changes since 1991 / Anna Sevortian; title: Between compliance and resistance : education for peace in Israeli public schools / Yossi Yonah; title: National human rights institutions and diversity / Joris de Bres; title: Is otherness a question of security or a question of freedom? / Didier Bigo; title: Protecting migrants' rights : undocumented migrants as local citizens / François Crépeau.