From Human Welfare to Human Rights

2022 ◽  
pp. 243-263
Author(s):  
Mark Goodale
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Welfare

International Human Rights, Social Policy & Global

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Global Development ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Development Politics ◽  
International Human ◽  
Key Questions

From a Critical Social Policy perspective and with a Global Development remit, this book addresses a range of key questions regarding international human rights. With human rights constantly under challenge, this collection of chapters represent a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis. Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it sets out their role in domestic and geo-political affairs. For those with an interest in social policy, ethics, development, politics and international relations, this is an honest appraisal of both the concepts of international human rights and their realities.

Advancing Global Business Ethics in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1179-1192
Author(s):  
Ruth Wolf ◽  
Monica Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Global Business ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Global Business Ethics ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Business Ethics In China ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter presents China's global business outlook within an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to reduce poverty through human welfare improvement. The chapter examines human rights within China's social, environmental, and economic resources domestically and globally. Although China's economic acceleration has been substantial, its inability to consistently observe and enforce international human rights laws and norms detracts from its economic success. This is not something that China can easily achieve due to challenges of social instability and increasing demographic problems stemming from a large population with diverse needs. The authors suggest ways to enhance human rights conduct according to the UN Guiding Principles in China and in other countries through responsible management education.

Toward an American Coalition for Human Rights

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
Bayard Rustin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
Economic Well Being

Should we form an American coalition for human rights? If so's what would be its purpose, its structure, and its functions?I would like to suggest a moral philosophy as a basis for such a coalition.I believe we must oppose suppression of human rights anywhere, whatever the ideology of the oppressor. We must, in my view, oppose dictatorships of both the Right and the Left— unequivocally and without qualification.In addition I would like to propose that such a coalition stress the importance of social and economic well-being for all peoples. We must, in my view, look to the development of human well-being that embodies the full range of human rights and aspirations. This means stretching the definition of human rights beyond civil and political to include all matters that affect human welfare.

Singapore

2019 ◽  
pp. 432-457
Author(s):  
Li-Ann Thio ◽  
Kevin YL Tan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Community ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Active Player ◽  
Human Rights Norms

This chapter addresses international law in Singapore, looking at Singapore’s role in international and regional organizations like the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and particularly at the role played by key Singaporean representatives in these organizations. From its earliest days, Singapore committed itself to being an active player in the international community. At the UN, its permanent representatives displayed extraordinary diplomatic acumen and capability and were prominent in key meetings and deliberations. Meanwhile, throughout its history, Singapore has been one of ASEAN’s strongest advocates and supporters. The chapter then considers how international law is implemented in Singapore by domestic tribunals and by Parliament and discusses the implementation of human rights norms in the context of state imperatives concerning human welfare and development.

Advancing Global Business Ethics in China

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Ruth Wolf ◽  
Monica Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Global Business ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Global Business Ethics ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Business Ethics In China ◽  
Corporate Social

This chapter presents China's global business outlook within an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to reduce poverty through human welfare improvement. The chapter examines human rights within China's social, environmental, and economic resources domestically and globally. Although China's economic acceleration has been substantial, its inability to consistently observe and enforce international human rights laws and norms detracts from its economic success. This is not something that China can easily achieve due to challenges of social instability and increasing demographic problems stemming from a large population with diverse needs. The authors suggest ways to enhance human rights conduct according to the UN Guiding Principles in China and in other countries through responsible management education.

Towards the Future Generation Rights in Indonesian Law to Make Justice in the Inter Generation in the Environmental Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purnawan D Negara ◽  
Widhi Handoko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The Future

Efforts on environmental protection in Indonesia are very advanced and progressive, this can be seen from the development of Indonesia democracy which based on ecological (ecocracy) which has given legal rights to the nature/environment in the form of constitutional rights and human rights from nature/environment. The recognition is a form of balancing of the provision of human rights given which guarantees on a good and healthy environment. The ecocracy implementation is embodied in the development policy in Indonesia based on the principle of sustainable development, which is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. This policy has triggered the notion that if nature and the present generation have the legal right to a good and healthy environment then future generations can also have the same legal rights. It has not been existed in Indonesian law. The effort to go there is not utopian because Indonesian civil law has recognized the rights of future generations through Article 2 of the KUHPer, as well as by the values ​​of adat law have recognized the existence of natural rights, as well as by Islamic values ​​(as the largest religion) has provided the basis that the creation of the universe is reserved for human welfare (assigned to be the caliphate), the embodiment of the future generations can be seen from the blowing of the spirits to humans by God. The law is not in a hollow space, so the development of law in Indonesia should not be uprooted from its social base in order not to lose its meaning and power in society, future generation rights is not something new for Indonesian society, therefore the development of environmental law needs to drive to make it exist for environmental protection.

Public Freedoms in the Islamic State

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rached Ghannouchi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political System ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Wide Acceptance ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
Democratic Principles

The author of this book has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In this book he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—in its broad outlines—meets with wide acceptance among Muslims if their interpretation of Islamic law is correct. Under his theory of the purposes of Shariʻa, justice and human welfare are not exclusive to Islamic governance, and the objectives of Islamic law can be advanced in multiple ways. The book examines the Western concept of freedom and the Islamic perspective on freedom and human rights, basic democratic principles, the basic principles of an Islamic political system, the concept of tyranny across three different schools of thought, and concludes with an examination of the solutions in Islamic thought that can curb state tyranny, for the benefit of freedom, justice, and the human rights of citizens.

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