History, Human Rights, and Globalization

An illustrative comparison of human rights in 1948 and the contemporary period, attempting to gauge the impact of globalization on changes in the content of human rights (e.g., collective rights, women's rights, right to a healthy environment), major abusers and guarantors of human rights (e.g....

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Main Author: Twiss, Sumner B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2004
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-70
Further subjects:B human rights and the environment
B Women's Rights
B human rights justification
B Globalization
B Human Rights
B collective rights
B human rights abusers and guarantors
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Summary:An illustrative comparison of human rights in 1948 and the contemporary period, attempting to gauge the impact of globalization on changes in the content of human rights (e.g., collective rights, women's rights, right to a healthy environment), major abusers and guarantors of human rights (e.g., state actors, transnational corporations, social movements), and alternative justifications of human rights (e.g., pragmatic agreement, moral intuitionism, overlapping consensus, cross-cultural dialogue).
ISSN:1467-9795
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.0384-9694.2004.00154.x