This book provides a moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. Any attempt to achieve a moral assessment of that enterprise must first evaluate the system of international legal human rights, which includ…
CONTENTS. Table of cases. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Informed choice of medical services: Still a problem? 2. Informed choice: Legal doctrine or ethical concept? 3. Medicine: Beneficience or enlightened self-interest? 4. The clinical encounter: Protecting…
The author suggests that a new principle of international law can Be discerned from contemporary definitions of sovereignty, Self-determination and human rights. This new right of autonomy Supports creative attempts to deal with conflicts over minority And majority rights be…
Demands for "autonomy" or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international legal norms and an examination of several specific case studies - including Hon…
"Toby Shelley has talked to Polisario, Moroccan, Algerian and other diplomats. He has visited the territory and had access to opposition activists and Moroccan officials. In the refugee camps he interviewed the leadership of Polisario. What emerges is that the fate of the Wester…
Not a history of the 23-year struggle by the South West African People's Organization to free Namibia from the rule of South Africa, but a study of how that struggle impacted the liberation movement itself and the political culture bequeathed to the country at independence. The …
Not a history of the 23-year struggle by the South West African People's Organization to free Namibia from the rule of South Africa, but a study of how that struggle impacted the liberation movement itself and the political culture bequeathed to the country at independence. The …
The ICJ's Opinion on Kosovo of 22 July 2010 has touched upon many pivotal questions of international law. This book contains a comprehensive stock-taking on this subject written by several international law experts from different European countries.
"This book offers a historic and anthropological perspective from which to understand the fragility of isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with outside society. It helps us appreciate the importance, in terms of cultural and biological diversity, of safeguarding th…
Tracing the history of Native American schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large--and sometimes within indigenous communities--which led to Native American children being separate from the white majority. Charles Glenn examines the evolving ass…
About the proceedings of a two-day conference in Townsville, Queensland, August 1993, to celebrate the International Year for the World's Indigenous People.
1. Individual and community rights: Will Kymlicka 2. Group inequality and the public culture of justice: Melissa S. Williams 3. Collective rights and women: the cold game of equality staring: Sherene 4. Towards a philosophy of federalism: Wayne J. Norman 5. International min…
