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Women and the UN: A New History of Women’s International Human Rights
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras.
The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of women throughout the world today. From the founding of the UN up until the Latin American feminist movements that pushed for gender equality in the UN Charter, and the Security Council Resolutions on the role of women in peace and conflict, the volume reflects on how women delegates from different parts of the world have negotiated and disagreed on human rights issues related to gender within the UN throughout time. In doing so it sheds new light on how these hidden historical narratives enrich theoretical studies in international relations and global agency today. In view of contemporary feminist and postmodern critiques of the origin of human rights, uncovering women’s history of the United Nations from both Southern and Western perspectives allows us to consider questions of feminism and agency in international relations afresh.
With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners of law, diplomacy, history, and development studies, and brought together by a theoretical commentary by the Editors, Women and the UN will appeal to anyone whose research covers human rights, gender equality, international development, or the history of civil society.
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The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law
This volume of collected essays by many of the world’s leading scholars of child welfare and law combines thorough research on a comprehensive range of legal issues salient in children’s lives with the most sophisticated theoretical and policy analysis of the law, informed by the most current empirical research on child development and welfare. The book’s organization follows the life of a child, more or less, chronologically from pre-birth to adolescence and, correspondingly, a sequence of ever-widening social spheres, from the womb to family to society to the world. The topical range is great, encompassing assisted reproduction, protection of fetuses, parentage, child maltreatment, medical care, education, custody disputes, children’s privacy, delinquency, minimum age laws, and strategies for advocating for youths. There is also substantial geographic breadth; the authors of the volume’s chapters represent four continents and roughly a dozen countries. A unifying feature of the volume is that all chapters put children at the center of attention; the authors write about topics relating to children within their respective areas of expertise from a perspective that focuses first and foremost on how the law impacts children’s wellbeing and experience of life. This often produces unfamiliar, thought-provoking conclusions. The Handbook constitutes an invaluable reference as well as a stimulating course text.
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Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Wowan: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic.
A pioneering study, the arguments made in this book are largely drawn from the author’s fieldwork in Ukraine, Vietnam and Ghana. The author demonstrates to readers how a law enforcement and criminal justice-oriented approach to trafficking has developed at the expense of a migration and human rights perspective. She highlights the importance of viewing trafficking within a broad spectrum of migratory movement. The author contests the coerced, female victim archetype as stereotypical and challenges the reader to understand trafficking in an alternative manner, introducing the counterintuitive concept of the ’voluntary victim’.
Overall, this text provides readers of migration and development, gender studies, women’s rights and international law a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the concept of trafficking.
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El control de convencionalidad en el Sistema Interamericano. Efectos. Obligatoriedad
El presente libro analiza los principales fallos de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) sobre una importante variedad de temas, siempre con la idea de ampliar la tutela para el ser humano.
Los jueces domésticos ejercen el llamado control de convencionalidad, que significa una comparación entre las normas y conductas del Estado en el campo interno y los tratados y documentos internacionales, como así también de los postulados y pautas que surgen del modelo transnacional.
Como viene diciendo el citado Tribunal y lo repitió a partir del caso Myrna Mack Chang, de 2003, esta revisión interamericana —por regla— no trata cuestiones locales, sino que su objetivo es fiscalizar que los países hayan cumplido con los tratados, prácticas y documentos sujetos a su competencia.
Bueno es señalar la trascendencia de la tarea que lleva a cabo este cuerpo por mediación de ese contralor heterónomo, que implica, a nuestro criterio, una especie de casación regional para unificar la interpretación jurídica en los Estados que forman parte del modelo.
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The Oxford Handbook of Children's Rights Law
Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. Yet, like children themselves, children's rights are often relegated to the margins in mainstream legal, political, and other discourses, despite their application to approximately one-third of the world's population and every human being's first stages of life. Now thirty years old, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) signalled a definitive shift in the way that children are viewed and understood--from passive objects subsumed within the family to full human beings with a distinct set of rights. Although the CRC and other children's rights law have spurred positive changes in law, policies, and attitudes toward children in numerous countries, implementation remains a work in progress. We have reached a state in the evolution of children's rights in which we need more critical evaluation and assessment of the CRC and the large body of children's rights law and policy that this treaty has inspired. We have moved from conceptualizing and adopting legislation to focusing on implementation and making the content of children's rights meaningful in the lives of all children. This book provides a critical evaluation and assessment of children's rights law, including the CRC. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, it aims to elucidate the content of children's rights law, explore the complexities of implementation, and identify critical challenges and opportunities for children's rights law.
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La última utopía: Los derechos humanos en la historia
Este libro es una fascinante invitación a repensar las formas en las que concebimos el origen, el legado y las implicaciones de los derechos humanos. En un recorrido cuyo eje es la historia intelectual, Samuel Moyn va destruyendo algunos de los mitos más comunes sobre el origen de los derechos humanos: las concepciones de los derechos de las revoluciones liberales, de la segunda posguerra y de los movimientos de descolonización de la década de los sesenta son muy diferentes a nuestro entendimiento contemporáneo de los derechos humanos. Moyn sostiene que los derechos humanos son una creación muy reciente, de la década de los setenta, cuando surgieron como una noción efectiva para trascender la soberanía estatal y formar un lenguaje moral que pretendía escapar del radicalismo político propio de la Guerra Fría.
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