Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Ulrich Beck
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Inequality

Global inequality and human rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 240-256
Author(s):  
Radhika Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Inequality

Africa, the United Nations, and Third Generation Rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-133
Author(s):  
Derrick M. Nault
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
World War ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
International Body ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

Chapter Four assesses Africa’s contributions to ‘third generation’ rights—‘solidarity’ or ‘group rights’ that emerged in tandem with decolonization after World War II. It traces the genealogy of three such human rights incorporated into the mandate of the United Nations (UN) from the 1950s to 1980s—the right to self-determination, the right to racial non-discrimination, and the right to development—arguing that African political lobbying proved decisive for the recognition and codification of these interrelated rights at the UN. Through writings and speeches critical of colonialism, racism, and global inequality; cultivating alliances with non-African Third World nations; and making the United Nations a more inclusive and representative international body, African leaders, it is shown, helped redefine human rights at the UN in ways that continue to reverberate in our own era.

scholarly journals A Moral Language for Our Time? Human Rights and Christianity in Historical Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Rachel Johnston-White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Moral Language ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
The Poor

On 3 October 2020 Pope Francis issued his third encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. Signed in the symbolic location of Assisi, home of St Francis, the encyclical represented the pope's response to the fears and anxieties wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the burning injustices of racism, global inequality and climate change. The encyclical explicitly invoked human rights, criticising the ways in which, ‘in practice, human rights are not equal for all’. As nations and societies succumb to ‘disenchantment and disappointment’, ‘the temptation to build a culture of walls’ to keep out the ‘other’ grows ever greater. The antidote, Francis insisted, is a ‘culture of encounter’ in which it is again possible to ‘rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters who orbit around us’. Priority, too, must be given to ‘the dignity of the poor’ and ‘respect for the natural environment,’ rather than the privileges of the affluent to continue to amass wealth at all costs. Only then – by aligning human rights with the global common good – can rights become truly universal.

scholarly journals Setting the Scene

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Gradín ◽  
Murray Leibbrandt ◽  
Finn Tarp
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Chronic Poverty ◽  
The Core ◽  
Measurement And Analysis

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution, and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the seventeen goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This chapter introduces a volume that contributes to this important discussion by bringing together assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars with a comprehensive view of inequality trends in five of the world’s largest developing countries—Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa. Understanding inequalities in these economies remains challenging, but is of great value in coming to grips with the contemporary global inequalities detailed in other chapters.

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1030-1032
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Measurement Of Inequality

Anna Soci of University of Bologna reviews “Histories of Global Inequality: New Perspectives” edited by Christian Olaf Christiansen and Steven L. B. Jensen. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Thirteen papers offer a historical approach to global inequalities that supplements the existing economic research literature, focusing on themes such as decolonization, international organizations, gender theory, discrimination and human rights, the history of measurement of inequality, and the history of economic thought.”

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