Full Description
This title was first published in 2000. This text tackles a wide range of issues relating to rights, citizenship and sovereignty in a European context. Such issues are of concern elsewhere with regeads to shifting conceptions and practices in international human rights. This book looks at the question of how much European rights and human rights interact and how much they must do so if Europe as a whole is to be an arena of "belonging" and effective participation for all its residents. This book reflects the focus on rights in Europe, looking at debates concerning immigration and minority rights, concerns about social exclusion, social protection, war crimes, human rights, women's rights and other topics.
Contents
1: Introduction: Rewriting Rights in Europe; 2: Rights and the Dignity of Humanity; 3: Women and Human Rights in Europe: Views from France; 4: From Joan of Arc to Bardot: Immigration, Nationalism, Rights and the Front National; 5: Reflections on Minority Rights and the Liberal State in Central Europe; 6: Rights, Institutions and Culture after Communism; 7: Economic Rights in Contemporary Europe; 8: Towards a Wider Europe: Eastern Europe's Rocky Road into the European Union; 9: Legal Rights and State Responsibilities under the ECHR; 10: The International Criminal Court and State Sovereignty; 11: Fundamental Rights, National Sovereignty and Europe's New Citizens
