This essay offers a 'state of the art'of the study of human rights practice. It begins with
delineating human rights practice as an academic perspective, defining its distinct research …

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a
critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights that underscores …

In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as
a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human …

Abstract _The Challenge of Human Rights_ traces the history of human rights theory from
classical antiquity through the enlightenment to the modern human rights movement, and …

'This volume represents a genuine attempt to think beyond the realms of what exists, to
reflect on ideas postulated in the past that could be of great salience in the future. It presents …

Human rights scholarship, and human rights themselves, stand at a crossroads: expanding
and contracting, deepening and collapsing. In this project, we identify fundamental changes …

This paper examines the problems that various contemporary human rights discourses face
with relativism, with special reference to the global protection of women's rights. These …

This chapter examines the utopias called forth by the marriage of human rights
accountability mechanisms on the one hand, and, on the other, arguments about the …

The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-
makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security, security policy practices seem …