Human Rights, Human Needs, Human Development, Human Security: elations ships between Four International ‘Human’ Discourses

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Des Casper
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
International Human

scholarly journals Africa: Risk, Security and Mapping of Human Rights Violations

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-127
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Varani ◽  
Enrico Bernardini
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Planetary interdependence makes the task of states and international organizations to guarantee security inside and outside national borders ever more urgent. The tendency is to widen the space from national to international and to conceive of security as multidimensional for the satisfaction of human needs, assumed as priority needs with respect to those of the States. The old concept of national security must today confront the new concept of human security cultivated within the United Nations, which places the fundamental rights of the individual and of people at the centre of attention and lays the foundations for overcoming the traditional politics of power. The concept of human security emphasises the security of the individual and his protection from political violence, war and arbitrariness. It takes account of the strong correlation between peace policy, human rights policy, migration policy and humanitarian policy. The contribution provides, through a series of social indicators such as the Global Peace Index (GPI), Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the World International Security and Policy Index (WISPI), a framework on risk, security, human rights violations in the African continent and examines some significant case studies related to sub-Saharan Africa.

scholarly journals International human rights, citizenship education, and critical realism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Alderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
International Human ◽  
High Standards

Citizenship education invokes dilemmas even for the most committed teachers and students, researchers, and innovators. How can citizenship education advance equity and equal rights within highly unequal schools and societies? How can it support young people to feel they have the competence, confidence, and right to vote and to challenge injustice? How can we be sure international human rights are realities, not merely passing ideologies? This paper argues that rights really exist as expressions of visceral embodied human needs and moral desires that are integral to human relationships. Rights also serve as powerful legal structures that can help to prevent and remedy wrongs, and they work as enduring high standards and aspirations. The paper suggests how critical realism can help educators to resolve dilemmas in theoretical education about rights as knowledge, principles, and mechanisms, and in practical education that enables students to enjoy and exercise their rights and respect those of other people.

scholarly journals The principle of the dignity of human person: a reading of the effectiveness of citizenship and human rights through the challenges put forward by globalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Orides Mezzaroba ◽  
Vladmir Oliveira da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Person ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Even today concepts that should have been overcome are debated, for example, the belonging of an individual to a State and, consequently, to its laws. The process of globalization, and the constant immigration resulted thereof, have led to profound changes in the relationship between the individual and the State, and especially, in the field of international human rights law. This means that the human needs began to be manifested regionally and internationally, in order to achieve the principle of the dignity of the human being. Thus, this article intends to investigate the link between citizenship and human rights, from new perspectives, through literature studies and deductive method, in order to answer the following questions: what are the added values to the concept of citizenship? And what is the current dimensions of citizenship?

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