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*Human Rights, Human Plights
in a Global Village
by Rob Buitenweg*
*Price: $19.95*
*ISBN: 978-0-932863-55-3* 280 pp. *
*SYNOPSIS*
In today's globalized world, all people are within "six steps"—six links of
acquaintanceship—of every other person in the world. Yet a significant
percentage of the world's population lives in abject socioeconomic misery,
exploited, slaving in horrible working conditions, without enough food or
education, and highly susceptible to illness and disease. How is it possible
that this occurs to people who are only 'six steps' away from us? How can
human misery continue despite the economic, technological and moral progress
mankind has made? In particular, how can this misery continue despite the
economic, social and cultural human rights that are recognized by many
legal, international and national, documents? These rights, like the right
to adequate housing, to food, to health(care) and to social security are
intended to alleviate human misery and, in so doing, contribute to a
dignified life. Knowing that these rights exist might lead one to think: is
not such widespread, socioeconomic human misery a violation of people's
human rights, more especially of their economic, social and cultural rights?
This book addresses the rights, the wrongs, the law, and what we need to
do.
*ISBN: 978-0-932863-55-3 $19.95*
*ABOUT THE AUTHOR *
Rob Buitenweg is Associate Professor of Human Rights at the Kosmopolis
Institute, The Netherlands. VP of the International Humanist and Ethical
Union, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Jurists
Organization and Board member of the Dutch Humanist Committee of Human
Rights. He was lecturer in the philosophy of law at the University for
Humanistics in 1989. He has published widely in both English and Dutch.
*REVIEW*
"Superbly argued and always accessible this book is an essential guide for
everyone who is concerned with human rights and human development. No one
gives a better explanation of the importance and indispensable value of
socioeconomic human rights for our times. A stimulating book and an
indispensable work of reference."
*Prof. dr. Henk Manschot,
Professor in Ethics
University of Humanistics, The Netherlands*
*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
*
*INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: A SHORT HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Rights of a special kind
2. Natural law
3. The social contract
4. The Right of Nature
5. Natural rights
6. Constitutionalization
7. Differentiation
8. Internationalization
9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
10. The International Covenants
Bibliography
CHAPTER 2: THE STATE OF AFFAIRS OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL RIGHTS
1. Fighting poverty
2. Social rights
3. Economic rights
4. Cultural rights
5. Differences between CP-rights, and ESC-rights
6. Bridging the gap
7. Regional ESC-rights
8. The treatment of ESC-rights in constitutions
9. Neglect of ESC-rights
10. Why are ESC-rights neglected?
11. The argument against ESC rights as real,
universal human rights
Bibliography
CHAPTER 3: A DIGNIFIED LIFE
1. Introduction
2. Human dignity
3. Existing as a person
4. A life worthy of a human being: Generic rights to
freedom, participation and well-being
5. The primary values underlying human rights
6. Freedom or autonomy?
7. Freedom, first among equals
8. Well-being
9. Participation
10. Individuality
11. Equality
12. Neutrality
13. Concluding comments
Bibliography
CHAPTER 4: POVERTY: IS ANYONE TO BLAME?
1. INTRODUCTION
2. SKEPTICS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
3. LIBERTARIAN SKEPTICISM
4. Poverty is human-made
5. A duty to refrain and a duty to protect
6. A duty to help
7. Who is the duty-bearer?
Bibliography
CHAPTER 5: THE ILLUSIONS OF LIBERTARIANISM
1. Introduction
2. The illusion of the legitimacy of the current distribution
3. Negative and positive freedom
4. Poverty is a violation of negative freedom
Bibliography
CHAPTER 6: THE SURPLUS VALUE OF A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
1. Introduction
2. Interests
3. Normative guideline or duty?
4. Duties, disabilities, liabilities, no-rights
5. Rights as immunities and ESC-rights
6. Rights meaning powers
7. Rights/liberties
8. Claim-rights
Bibliography
CHAPTER 7: THE VAGUENESS OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
1. Introduction
2. The dynamics of human rights
3. Obligations flowing from ESC-rights
4. What do various authors say?
5. Some more categories
6. The result of the search: a scheme of obligations
7. Justiciable duties?
Bibliography
CHAPTER 8: A RIGHT IS A PRECIOUS THING
1. Introduction
2. Duty + interest = right: a minimalist view
3. Intentionality
4. Personhood
5. Discretion
6. Discretion and human rights
7. Societal recognition of rights
8. Effective societal support: justiciability, enforceability,
social control
9. Elements of a right: the notion of a right versus a concrete right
10. Justiciability again
11. Aspects and elements
12. Genuine, justiciable rights
Bibliography
CHAPTER 9: GLOBAL NORMS FOR A GLOBAL VILLAGE
1. Introduction
2. Historical relativity vs. historical universality
3. Contemporary relativity or universality
4. Normative relativity or universality
5. Unacceptability and inconsistency of cultural relativism
6. Normative universalism and justificatory universalism
7. A dialogue
Bibliography
CHAPTER 10: IN DEFENSE OF UNIVERSALISM: WORLD CITIZENSHIP
1. Cultural relativism vs. universalism
2. The universality of the right-holder
3. The universality of the object of the right
4. The universality of the addressees of human rights
5. Global citizenship
Bibliography
Endnotes
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