The Human Rights Reader

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism.

Autorentext

Micheline R. Ishay is Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Human Rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Klappentext

The third edition of The Human Rights Reader presents a variety of new primary documents and readings and elaborates the exploration of rights in the areas of race, gender, refugees, climate, Artificial Intelligence, drones and cyber security, and nationalism and Internationalism. In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, it addresses human rights challenges reflected in and posed by global health inequities. Each part of the reader corresponds to five historical phases in the history of human rights and explores the arguments, debates, and issues of inclusiveness central to those eras. This edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of essays, speeches, and documents from historical and contemporary sources, all of which are placed in context with Micheline Ishay's substantial introduction to the Reader as a whole and context-setting introductions to each part and chapter. New to the Third Edition 60 new readings and documents cover subjects ranging from human rights in the age of globalization and populism, debates of the rights of citizens versus those of refugees and immigrants, transgender rights, the new Jim Crow, and the future of human rights as they relate to digital surveillance, the pandemic, and bioengineering Part I has been reorganized into three chapters: the Secular Tradition, Asian and African Religions and Traditions, and the Monotheistic Religions Part V has been significantly updated and expanded with the addition of an entirely new chapter - "Debating the Future of Human Rights." Each of the six parts in the book is preceded by an editorial introduction and, in four of the parts, a separate selection providing the reader with a general background on the history and themes represented in the readings that follow Each part and several chapters conclude with new Questions for Discussion authored by the volume editor An extensive new online resource includes 62 key human rights documents ranging from the Magna Carta to the United Nations Glasgow Climate Pact

Inhalt

Preface to the Third Edition

New to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Human Rights: Historical and Contemporary Controversies

PART I: THE ORIGINS: SECULAR, ASIAN, AND MONOTHEISTIC TRADITIONS

CHAPTER 1: The Secular Tradition

CHAPTER 2: Asian and African Religions and Traditions

CHAPTER 3: Monotheistic Religions

PART II: THE LEGACY OF EARLY LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

CHAPTER 4: Liberal Visions of Human Rights

CHAPTER 5: How to Promote a Liberal Conception of Human Rights

CHAPTER 6: Human Rights for Whom?

PART III: THE SOCIALIST CONTRIBUTION AND THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

CHAPTER 7: Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights

CHAPTER 8: How to Promote a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights? Free Trade, Just War, and International Organizations

CHAPTER 9: Human Rights for Whom?

PART IV: THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE IMPERIAL AGE

CHAPTER 10: On the National Question

PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION AND POPULISM

CHAPTER 11: Redefining Rights

CHAPTER 12: How to Protect and Promote Human Rights?

CHAPTER 13: Human Rights for Whom?

CHAPTER 14: Debating the Future of Human Rights

PART VI: HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL NARRATIVE

CHAPTER 15: Additional Documents