Can We Still Afford Human Rights?: Critical Reflections on Universality, Proliferation and Costs (Leuven Global Governance series) - Hardcover

 
9781839100314: Can We Still Afford Human Rights?: Critical Reflections on Universality, Proliferation and Costs (Leuven Global Governance series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1839100311 ISBN 13: 9781839100314
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

This insightful book offers a critical reflection on the sustainability and effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its legacy over the last 70 years. Exploring the problems surrounding universality, proliferation and costs, it asks the provocative question, can we still afford human rights?

Expert contributors illustrate the interdependence between these three key issues in an unprecedented way, addressing many of the contemporary criticisms voiced against the human rights system and the reasons for popular skepticism about human rights. In order to interrogate the deficiencies of the UDHR, chapters analyse the following questions: Can and should we keep claiming that human rights are universal? Is their proliferation rendering human rights meaningless? And have human rights become too costly? The book concludes that there is a pressing need for a renewed and lasting commitment to human rights. We cannot afford not to afford human rights.

This book will be a valuable resource for academics and students of international relations, the political sciences and comparative legal studies. Covering policy and advocacy issues as well as the evolution of case law regarding particular human rights, it will also be beneficial for policy-makers and human rights practitioners.

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About the Author

Edited by Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Koen Lemmens, Professor of International and European Human Rights Law and Media Law, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Thomas Van Poecke, formerly KU Leuven and Marie Bourguignon, PhD Researcher, Leuven Centre for Public Law, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1839100311
ISBN 13 
9781839100314
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
368
Editor
Wouters Jan, Lemmens Koen, Van Poecke Thomas, Bourguignon Marie