Critical Reflections on the Positionality of Human Rights Educators Working in Diverse Contexts

2017 ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Shabnam Koirala-Azad ◽  
Katie Zanoni ◽  
Amy Argenal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Critical Reflections

scholarly journals Editorial: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: African Perspectives on Progress and Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Felix Dube ◽  
Agbor Avitus A
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Critical Reflections

This special edition comprises selected papers on critical reflections on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The authors critique the contextual relevance of the UDHR to the implementation of human rights within selected domestic legal systems in Africa.

Producing neoliberal citizens: critical reflections on human rights education in Pakistan

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Education ◽  
Critical Reflections

scholarly journals Can We Still Afford Human Rights? Critical Reflections on Universality, Costs and Proliferation

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-196
Author(s):  
Emma Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Critical Reflections ◽  
Edward Elgar

Book Review: Jan Wouters, Koen Lemmens, Thomas van Poecke and Marie Bourguignon (Eds.) [Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies]. 2020. Can We Still Afford Human Rights? Critical Reflections on Universality, Costs and Proliferation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-1789905120, ISBN-10: 1789905125, 369 pp.    

Children, But Not Really Humans? Critical Reflections on the Hampering Effect of the "3 p's"

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Quennerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Critical Reflections

AbstractIn this paper, the widespread use of the "3 p's", provision, protection and participation, to categorise children's rights is critically examined. This conceptualisation is argued to have hampering effects on research in children's rights, in that it frames the research in a problematic way and hinders the possibilities of attaining theoretically driven analyses. In the paper, the emergence and use of the 3 p's is first traced and discussed. Thereafter, an alternative language for constructing and analysing children's rights is proposed, namely the vocabulary used for general human rights: civil, political and social rights. When children's rights are placed within the development of human rights and conceptualised accordingly, a different understanding of the content of children's rights surfaces. The theoretical contextualisation that is then added is suggested as a way of approaching contradictions and conflicts surrounding children's rights issues with more theoretical depth and nuances.

scholarly journals Necropolitics and Diffuse Violence: Critical Reflections on Social Discourses About the LGBT Body

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristine Jaques Ribeiro ◽  
Camila de Freitas Moraes ◽  
Lívio Silva de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Defensive Behaviors ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Main Factor ◽  
Critical Reflections

This article aims to discuss the state’s function and the speeches about the LGBT body from the theoretical concept of necropolitics, defended by Achille Mbembe, which apprehends that this is a sovereign state that subdues, oppresses, and acts for the management of politics of death and applies them on bodies and populations, determining who is subject to live or die. The concept of necropolitics will be enunciated with diffuse violence as a systemic concept that demarcates social relations, and forms of sociability in contemporaneity as defensive behaviors that can legitimize human rights violations. Diffuse violence recognizes the increasing criminal rates, especially homicides and patrimonial offenses, as the main factor in producing diffuse fear, connoting a generalization of the feeling of insecurity. However, this dynamic also points out which types and social groups are most vulnerable to violence. Based on these theoretical and methodological contributions, we will seek to understand how social discourses and their implications are transversal to the LGBT body and how they manifest through oppression.

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