Individual Duty Within a Human Rights Discourse [1 ed.] 9781351927826, 9780754623618

Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the

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Individual Duty Within a Human Rights Discourse [1 ed.]
9781351927826, 9780754623618

A paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons

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Pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is in

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The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From t

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Daniel Whelan illustrates how the rhetoric of indivisibility has frequently been used to further political ends that hav

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Mary Robinson was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. During those five tumultuous year

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In Strategies of Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights, Andreas von Staden traces the impact of human right

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The nation-state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and rights to all people in the world.

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The “disappearance” and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin

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