Full Description
The world is faced with significant and interrelated challenges in the 21st century which threaten human rights in a number of ways. This book examines three of the largest issues of the century - armed conflict, environment, and poverty - and examines how these may be addressed using a human rights framework. It considers how these challenges threaten human rights and reassesses our understanding of human rights in the light of these issues.
This multidisciplinary text considers both foundational and applied questions such as the relationship between morality and the laws of war, as well as the application of the International Human Rights Framework in cyber space.
Alongside analyses from some of the most prominent lawyers, philosophers, and political theorists in the debate, each section includes contributions by those who have served as Special Rapporteurs within the United Nations Human Rights System on the challenges facing international human rights laws today.
Contents
I. Foundations
1: Hurst Hannum: Reinvigorating Human Rights for the Twenty-First Century
2: Hilary Greaves: Global Consequentialism and the Morality and Laws of War
3: David Rodin: Two Visions of Human Rights: Relational and Beneficiary-Focused Theories
II: Conflict and Security
4: Harold Hongju Koh: State of Play and Road Ahead: Humanizing Security
5: Fiona de Londras: 'Sustainable Security': A Proposal
6: Liora Lazarus: Insecurity and Human Rights
7: Christof Heyns, Dapo Akande, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, and Thompson Chengeta: The Right to Life and the International Law Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones
8: Helen McDermott: Application of the International Human Rights Law Framework in Cyber Space
III: Poverty
9: Margot E Salomon: State of Play and Road Ahead: A World of Poverty and Human Rights
10: Sandra Fredman: Poverty and Human Rights: A Peril and a Promise
11: Jaakko Kuosmanen: Uphill Battle: Deliberating Towards Human Rights Compatible Public Budgets
12: Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona and Kate Donald: The Promise & Pitfalls of the Sustainable Development Goals: Has the Time Come for a Rights-Based Approach to Poverty Reduction?
IV. Environment
13: Kerri Woods: State of Play and Road Ahead: Environment and Human Rights
14: Dominic Roser: Don't Look Too Far: Rights as a Rationale for the Precautionary Principle
15: John Knox: The Paris Agreement as a Human Rights Treaty
16: Simon Caney: Human Rights, Population, and Climate Change
