Building a Human Community with a Shared Future and Promoting Global Human Rights Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-136
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Community

Human Rights as Land Rights in the Pacific

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D'Arcy May
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The One

Do human rights in their conventional, Western understanding really meet the needs of Pacific peoples? This article argues that land rights are a better clue to those needs. In Aboriginal Australia, Fiji, West Papua and Papua New Guinea, case studies show that people's relationship to land is religious and implicitly theological. The article therefore suggests that rights to land need to be supplemented by rights of the land extending to the earth as the home of the one human community and nature as the matrix of all life.

The Commune of Being and Time

Dialogue ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Human Community

One cannot determine whether a book is a work of political philosophy merely by glancing at its contents. Heidegger's Being and Time is a case in point. It offers no discussion of the topics which are commonly thought to constitute political philosophy—the state, the nature of law, human rights, and so on. But particular themes such as these reflect in large part the actual conditions which prevailed at certain times and places, fourth-century Athens and seventeenth-century England, for example, so they must not be thought to constitute an outline of the eternal problems of political philosophy. When a philosopher embarks upon a new line of thought at a different time and under novel circumstances, he may find himself instituting a new vocabulary for the problems of the human community.

Toward the Truth About the Trc: a Response To Key Moral Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm J. Verwoerd
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Retributive Justice ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The South ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation

AbstractIn this article the 'genre' of the TRC Report is clarified in order to answer some of the criticisms of the TRC. It is argued that the TRC conceptualised its role as the promotion of restorative justice rather than retributive justice. Justice and reconciliation is served not by isolating perpetrators of gross human rights violations but by restoring human community. Different aspects of the effects of the TRC's work are considered, namely reconciliation, amnesty and forgiveness Justice-based and reconciliation-based criticisms of the TRC are answered.

The Case for Collective Human Rights: The Reality of Group Suffering

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Felice
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Human

In a world increasingly both fragmented and globalized, there is a need for a normative framework of values linking individual and group concerns by means of a conception of collective human rights. Felice argues that individual human rights, which have proven to be of enormous value in the twentieth century, must be extended to communities ranging from the family unit to the entire human community.

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