Part II Historical and Legal Sources, Ch.7 The Foundations of Justice and Human Rights in Early Legal Texts and Thought

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Paul Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
International Human

This article examines the contributions of early legal texts and thoughts to the development of the concept of justice and human rights. It analyses ideas about justice and human rights in ancient Near and Middle East, ancient China, ancient India, Classical Greece and Rome, the Medieval Period, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment Period. It considers the relevant works of several ancient thinkers including Mencius, Plato and Cicero and suggests that they provided significant lessons and laid the essential foundations for developments that eventually would result in international human rights law.

A Human Rights Approach to Statelessness in the Middle East

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-552
Author(s):  
Curtis F. Doebbler
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
International Law ◽  
Political Change ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
International Human

Despite repeated attempts to eliminate statelessness and to provide for the protection of stateless persons, international law has not been able to provide an adequate response to these problems. In the Middle East the problem has continued to grow as social and political change pushes people into becoming stateless and fails to provide those who are stateless with adequate protection. The treaties that have attempted to prevent this practice have failed. At the same time the lex specialis aimed at protecting people from the consequences of statelessness have also failed. The result has been a lacuna in the protection of stateless persons. This article suggests that a step towards filling this gap might be made by applying general international human rights law to protect stateless persons.

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