"Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. Mira Siegelberg's innovative history weaves togethe…
1. Definition of the question 2. Historical theory and practice of the international legal status of the individual 3. The doctrine of the international legal personality of the human being 4. International individual obligations 5. The international responsibility of the indivi…
The nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operate…
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, has become the moral backbone of more than two hundred human rights instruments that are now a part of our world. The document has been a source of hope and inspiration to thousands of groups and millions of oppressed …
Another cosmopolitanism
by Kymlicka, Will, Benhabib, Seyla, Waldron, Jeremy, Honig, Bonnie, Post, Robert
Presents an argument that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice - norms which are difficult for some to accept as legitimate since they are in conflict with d…
Another cosmopolitanism
by Kymlicka, Will, Benhabib, Seyla, Waldron, Jeremy, Honig, Bonnie
The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but the political revolutions are so far insufficient to guarantee progress. Around the world, women…