Gender and human rights
by Yahyaoui Krivenko, Ekaterina
fromElgar studies in human rights
This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. The book ill…
This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders. These dogmas persist in face of the human suffering caused by border controls and in spite of a globa…
Margaret Gilbert presents the first full-length treatment of a central class of rights: demand-rights. To have such a right is to have the standing or authority to demand a particular action of another person. Gilbert argues that joint commitment is a ground of demand-rights, an…
Universal human rights in a world of localities -- The legal protection of human rights : rolling back an established human right : 'Reforming' the rule against double jeopardy -- Pushing the boundaries of human rights protection : equality and the recognition of same sex relati…
