Human rights and the United Nations : paradox and promise
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Human rights and the United Nations : paradox and promise
（Routledge explorations in development studies）
Routledge, 2025
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This book considers the complex and contradictory role of the United Nations when it comes to human rights around the world. It depicts the United Nations as a global arena in which state and non-state actors continuously contest issues around human rights. This ongoing contestation simultaneously produces both advances and setbacks when it comes to the rights of stateless populations, women, Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, as well as rights related to health and the environment. Since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and throughout various subsequent expansions, conventions and declarations, the United Nations has been central to the development and advancement of human rights as a primary, stated goal of global governance. However, there are various inherent contradictory tensions and challenges embedded in United Nations promise for human rights. This timely collection investigates the United Nations' role as knowledge producer, its relation to non-state actors, and the United
収録内容
- Introduction: Thinking about the paradox and promise of human rights and the United Nations / Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban
- Knowledge production : gender, race, indigenous peoples and politics and the UN / Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban
- Towards reproductive justice in the global gender equality agenda : the UN and Canadas's compliance and non-compliance with Beijing and beyond / Nariya Khasanova
- Human rights for human remains : how international frameworks facilitate transnational knowledge production / Nicole Anderson
- Statelessness as a window on the paradox of the United Nations / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan
- The paradox of visibility and the ILO's decent work for domestic workers convention / Annie Chau
- The paradox of indigenous peoples' participation at the UN : the dance of meaningful change against state sovereignty and territorial integrity / Sheryl Lightfoot and Utkarsh Khare
- The UN's contradictory impact and failure to protect women in humanitarian settings : racist frames in post-earthquake Haiti / Célia Romulus
- Mandating global health to foster health security : spotlighting the Africa Health Strategy (2007-30) and the United Nations / Christopher Isike
- Will a human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment address the wrongs of environmental degradation? / Karen Morrow
- The UN human rights paradox during the interregnum : Yemen and Myanmar as case studies / W. Andy Knight
- Afterword: Naming and framing paradox / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan.
